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Nora Ney
Nora Ney in 1961
Background information
Birth nameIracema de Sousa Ferreira
Born(1922-03-20)March 20, 1922
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DiedOctober 2003 (2003-11) (aged 81)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
GenresSamba-canção, Brazilian rock

Nora Ney (born Iracema de Sousa Ferreira, Rio de Janeiro, March 20, 1922 – Rio de Janeiro, October 2003) was a Brazilian singer. She is also the most notable[according to whom?] singer of the samba-canção music style and a pioneer[according to whom?] of the Brazilian rock.

Biography

She first approached music by playing guitar by herself. Her father, in order to motivate her, offered the instrument as a birthday gift.[citation needed]

Along with Maysa Matarazzo, Ângela Maria and Dolores Duran, Ney is considered one of the greatest samba-canção singers (emerged in the thirties).[clarification needed] Often compared to bolero, for the featured exaltation and exploration of romantic love or the suffering of an unrequited love affair was also called "elbow ache" (jealousy, heart ache).[clarification needed] Samba-canção preceded bossa nova but came from American jazz and had more refined, gentle and soft melodies and interpretations, in detriment of those resented, melancholic ones.[clarification needed] "Nina Ney was melodramatic and yet emotionally cool at the same time," noted musicologist Bryan McCann of her style.[1]

She began her career in 1950 and in 1953 was already one of the greatest divas of the Brazilian Radio Era, interpreting Dorival Caymmi, Noel Rosa, Ary Barroso, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.[2] In 1952 she recorded her first LP for the record label Continental Records, entitled Menino da rua. Despite being a notable samba-canção interpreter, Nora Ney became one of the pioneers of the Brazilian rock by recording the first rock LP in the country: the Brazilian version of "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets (soundtrack of Sementes da Violência movie) in October 1955. After only one week, the song became a hit, and began a trend for Brazilian singers making covers of rock songs.[3][4]

Ney's second marriage was to singer Jorge Goulart; their daughter, Vera Lúcia, became Miss Brazil in 1963. Ney was forced into exile after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état due to Goulart's political involvement with the Communist Party of Brazil.[citation needed]

Discography

References

  1. ^ McCann, Bryan (2004-05-04). Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil. Duke University Press. pp. 200, 205. ISBN 978-0-8223-3273-2.
  2. ^ Jobim, Antonio Carlos (2011-02-24). Antonio Carlos Jobim for Classical Guitar. Mel Bay Publications. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-60974-637-7.
  3. ^ Treece, David (2013-07-15). Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap. Reaktion Books. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-78023-120-4.
  4. ^ Nichols, Elizabeth Gackstetter; Robbins, Timothy R. (2015-07-28). Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 1921. ISBN 979-8-216-13029-1.
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