Nana Caymmi

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Nana Caymmi

Dinahir "Nana" Tostes Caymmi (born April 29, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) is a Brazilian singer .

Life

Nana Caymmi is the daughter of Dorival Caymmi , the world-famous composer, and the singer Stella Maris. Her siblings Dori and Danilo Caymmi also became musicians. In 1960 she made her first recordings and also made a few appearances on television.

In 1961 she married the doctor Gilberto José Aponte Paoli, with whom she lived in the Venezuelan capital Caracas for the next few years . Her daughters Stella Teresa Caymmi Paoli and Denise Maria Caymmi Paoli were born there in 1962 and 1963. Her first album "Nana" was released in 1963. The marriage and the musical ambitions of Nana Caymmi proved to be difficult to reconcile and so she moved back to Rio de Janeiro, where in 1966 her son João Gilberto Caymmi Paoli was born.

In the same year she took part in the first Festival Internacional do Canção Popular in Rio de Janeiro and won the national phase of the competition with the poetic song "Saveiros" written by her brother Dori together with Nelson Motta . In the overall ranking she came second behind the German Inge Brück with the song Ask the Wind.

In 1967 she married Gilberto Gil , but the marriage only lasted until 1968. In 1979 she married the composer and singer Claudio Nucci, from whom they only separated again in 1984.

During her career she worked with such famous singers as Sérgio Mendes and Sarah Vaughan . Her music is melancholy-romantic in its basic tendency, but by no means kitsch. She also sings a lot of boleros . Their music often celebrates the beauty of the country, love, but also sadness and pain, and can be remotely compared to Portuguese fado .

Nana Caymmi can look back on a long career, which was commercially relatively successful, especially in the 1990s. Among other things, she sang the theme songs of numerous Brazilian telenovelas .

The television documentary “ Rio Sonata ” by Swiss filmmaker Georges Gachot , which premiered in Rio de Janeiro in 2010, presented the life and work of Nana Caymmi to a larger German-speaking audience for the first time in a translation.

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Most famous songs (selection)

  • Vaz e Suor, 1983 .
  • Chora Brasileira, 1985 .
  • A noite do meu bem, 1994 .
  • Resposta ao tempo, 1998 .

Albums (selection)

  • Nana, 1965 .
  • Renascer, 1976 .
  • Mudança dos ventos, 1980 .
  • Chora Brasileira, 1985 .
  • Bolero, 1993 .
  • Alma Serena, 1996 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saveiros are the names of the old single-masted cargo sailors with gaff sails .
  2. ↑ Rio Sonata Nana Caymmi on the website www.gachot.ch . Retrieved January 30, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Caymmi, Nana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caymmi, Dinahir Tostes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil