Jair Rodrigues

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Jair Rodrigues (BRAVO! Prime de Cultura, 2009)

Jair Rodrigues de Oliveira (born February 6, 1939 in Igarapava ; † May 8, 2014 in Cotia ) was a Brazilian singer who was one of the most famous and successful samba interpreters of the 1960s and 1970s.

Live and act

Rodrigues first grew up in Nova Europa ; from 1954 he lived in São Carlos , where he soon began his musical career as a crooner and in 1958 appeared in a radio show. Then he moved to São Paulo, where he became known in a casting show by Rádio Cultura . The first recording was made in 1962 with “Marechal da Vitória”; the following year he made his debut LP, O samba como ele é . In 1964 he had his first hit with “Deixa Isso Pra Lá”. In 1965, he replaced Baden Powell in Elis Regina's show at the Teatro Paramount ; as a result, three joint live albums ( Dois na Bossa ) were created for Philips . Due to the success of these recordings, Regina and Rodrigues were invited to the television show O Fino da Bossa that same year . With the song "Disparada" (by Geraldo Vandré and Théo de Barros) he won the 1966 Festival da Música Popular Brasileira . In the same year he recorded his hit "Tristeza" (Niltinho / Haroldo Lobo). In 1967 he went on an international tour with Regina and the Zimbo Trio . In the following years he had other Hts with "Triste Madrugada" ( Jorge Costa ), "Casa de Bamba" (Martinho da Vila), "Tengo-Tengo" (Zuzuca) and "Vai, meu samba." Rodrigues also performed at international festivals like the MIDEM (in Cannes), the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Sanremo Festival .

Rodrigues is the father of the musicians Luciana Mello and Jair Oliveira .

Elis Regina and Jair Rodrigues (1972)

Discography

  • Vou de samba com você (1964)
  • O samba como ele é (1964)
  • Elis Regina e Jair Rodrigues Dois na Bossa (1965)
  • O sorriso do Jair (1966)
  • Elis Regina e Jair Rodrigues Dois na Bossa nº 2 (1966)
  • Elis Regina e Jair Rodrigues Dois na Bossa nº 3 (1967)
  • Jair (1967)
  • Menino rei da alegria (1968)
  • Jair de todos os sambas (1969)
  • Jair de todos os sambas nº 2 (1969)
  • Talento e bossa de Jair Rodrigues (1970)
  • É isso aí (1971)
  • Festa para um rei negro (1971)
  • Com a corda toda (1972)
  • Orgulho de um sambista (1973)
  • Abra um sorriso novamente (1974)
  • Jair Rodrigues dez anos depois (1974)
  • Ao vivo no Olympia de Paris (1975)
  • Eu sou o samba (1975)
  • Minha hora e vez (1976)
  • Estou com o samba e not abro (1977)
  • Pisei chão (1978)
  • Antologia da seresta (1979)
  • Couro comendo (1979)
  • Estou lhe devendo um sorriso (1980)
  • Antologia da seresta nº 2 (1981)
  • Alegria de um povo (1981)
  • Jair Rodrigues de Oliveira (1982)
  • Carinhoso (1983)
  • Luzes do prazer (1984)
  • Jair Rodrigues (1985)
  • Jair Rodrigues (1988)
  • Lamento sertanejo (1991)
  • Viva meu samba (1994)
  • Eu sou ... Jair Rodrigues (1996)
  • De todas as bossas (1998)
  • 500 anos de folia - 100% ao vivo (1999)
  • 500 anos de folia vol. 2 (2000)
  • Interprete (2002)
  • A nova bossa (2004)
  • Alma Negra (2005)
  • Programa Ensaio - Brasil 1991 (CD & DVD, 2006)
  • Festa Para Um Rei Negro (CD & DVD, 2009)
  • Samba mesmo vol. 1 (2014)
  • Samba mesmo vol. 2 (2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ shared price with Chico Buarques " A Banda "
personal data
SURNAME Rodrigues, Jair
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodrigues de Oliveira, Jair
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Igarapava
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2014
Place of death Cotia