Nora Ney
Brazilian singer (1922–2003)
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- Nora Ney (born Iracema de Sousa Ferreira , Rio de Janeiro, March 20, 1922 – Rio de Janeiro, October 2003) was a Brazilian singer.
- Biography Ney first approached music by playing guitar by herself.
- Along with Maysa Matarazzo, Ângela Maria and Dolores Duran, Ney is considered one of the greatest samba-canção singers who became popular in the 30s.
- 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.
- She began her career in 1950 and in 1953 was already one of the greatest singers of the Brazilian Radio Era, interpreting Dorival Caymmi, Noel Rosa, Ary Barroso, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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 singer of the samba-canção music style and a pioneer of the Brazilian rock.
Biography
Ney first approached music by playing guitar by herself. Her father, in order to motivate her, offered the instrument as a birthday gift.
Along with Maysa Matarazzo, Ângela Maria and Dolores Duran, Ney is considered one of the greatest samba-canção singers who became popular in the 30s. Her music was 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). 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. "Nina Ney was melodramatic and yet emotionally cool at the same time," noted musicologist Bryan McCann of her style.
She began her career in 1950 and in 1953 was already one of the greatest singers of the Brazilian Radio Era, interpreting Dorival Caymmi, Noel Rosa, Ary Barroso, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. In 1952 she recorded her first LP for the record label Continental Records, titled 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.
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