Leny Andrade

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Leny Andrade

Leny Andrade (born January 25, 1943 in Rio de Janeiro as Leny de Andrade Lima ) is a Brazilian jazz singer who has also appeared in the Música Popular Brasileira . She had several hits in the Brazilian charts and in 2007 she won a Latin Grammy Award with César Camargo Mariano for the album Ao Vivo ("Live"). Tony Bennett characterized her as the " Ella Fitzgerald of Brazil."

Live and act

Andrade received classical piano lessons at the age of six. Then she won a scholarship and studied piano at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music. At the age of eleven she began to appear regularly on radio shows such as Clube do Guri (Rádio Tupi, Rio de Janeiro). At the age of fifteen she was the singer of the Permínio Gonçalves Orchestra. In 1961 she appeared as a soloist accompanied by Sérgio Mendes ; in the same year her first album was released. In 1962 she was part of the Dick Farney orchestra . Together with Pery Ribeiro and the Bossa Tres , she celebrated success with the Gemini V show in 1965which was also released on record. In the same year she recorded one of the most important songs of her career with “Estamos Aí” by Durval Ferreira and Maurício Einhorn . For political reasons - Brazilian dictatorship - she lived in Mexico from 1966 to 1970, only to appear again with Pery Ribeiro. She only started her international career in the 1980s and moved to the USA in 1993. There she performed at the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center before she recorded the album Coisa Fina with Romero Lubambo, which was nominated for the Sharp Prize . In 1991 her album Embraceable You was created in the Netherlands .

In the next few years Andrade also performed at the Umbria Jazz Festival and the JVC Jazz Festival . She played with Paquito D'Rivera , Luiz Eça , João Donato , Eumir Deodato and Francis Hime .

Leny Andrade (1961)

Discographic notes

  • A sensação (1961) RCA Victor
  • A arte maior de Leny Andrade (1963) Polydor
  • Gemini V - Show na boate Porão 73 (1965) Odeon
  • Estamos aí (1965) Odeon
  • Pery Ribeiro & Leny Andrade Gemini cinco anos depois (1972) Odeon
  • Alvoroço (1973) Odeon
  • Expo-Som 73, (1973) Odeon
  • Leny Andrade (1975) Odeon
  • Registro (1979) Columbia
  • Leny Andrade (1979) CBS
  • Presença de Leny Andrade e Os Cariocas (1979) CBS
  • Leny Andrade (1984) RCA / Pointer
  • Cartola
  • Bossa nova (1991) Eldorado
  • Embraceable You (1991) Timeless Records
  • Leny Andrade / César Camargo Mariano Nós (1994) Velas
  • Maiden Voyage (1994) Chesky Records
  • Coisa fina (1994)
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim, letra e música (1995) Lumiar Discos
  • Luz negra - Nelson Cavaquinho por Leny Andrade (1995) Velas
  • Bossas novas (1998) Albatroz
  • Leny Andrade canta Altay Veloso (2000) Paradox Music
  • E quero que a canção seja você (2001) Albatroz

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personal data
SURNAME Andrade, Leny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andrade Lima, Leny de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro