The singer released the EP “Chega Mais” to celebrate the return of Carnival to Salvador
There is little that the Bahian singer Ivete Sangalo he hasn’t done in his nearly thirty-year career. After sold-out shows at Maracanã and Madison Square Garden, Veveta, as her fans call her, wants to celebrate the carnival of the city that gave her the world: Salvador.
The release of the EP ‘Chega Mais’ is a celebration of the return of the post-pandemic carnival of Bahia and the desire to see happy fans.
“I don’t release a song with the goal of it being ‘carnival song’, I release it and it takes on a life of its own. This carnival EP was a dream I had and I wanted to do something for the fans to be close to me,” said the star during the press release of the new work.
The name of the job makes this clear. “’Chega Mais’ is closer, more intimate,” he explains. “It’s been two years without Carnival, we haven’t met for two years. I wanted to crown this revival with an exclusively carnival repertoire».
Antagonistic as it may seem, the isolation imposed by the pandemic has tempered the project, which has six tracks and was designed to sound like an electric trio parade, from the beginning to the end of the carnival.
The pandemic is also behind the choice of the theme of the costume and the show it will present during the Carnival.
“The theme will be ‘Back to the Future’, it’s an allusion to the film, from an aesthetic point of view, but also in the sense that we return to our reality,” explains the singer.
For Ivete, the uncertainty of the future, provided by the pandemic, has left people thirsting for it. “We are entering the year of the greatest hope, we are entering an axis of greater possibility. We came out of a period of regression, we aim for the future, so we come back for the future,” she declares.
inspirations
In “Cria Da Ivete”, one of the flagship tracks of “Chega Mais”, Ivete Sangalo uses a lot of Bahian slang to flirt with female empowerment. “We women can do everything, we do what we want, we have that right in our soul, but we have to educate ourselves to be free”, defends the singer.
The track “Se Saia” is also full of Bahian dialect. “I wanted to make a song that had this Bahian dialect. The Bahians talk like that,” she says. The track, which has a groove by Luiz Caldas, is tailor-made to make the audience sing their hearts out.
Another highlight of the work is “Rua da Saudade”, a more romantic samba reggae. The song was inspired by the lack that the carnival has made in the life of those who love the party.
The work will be accompanied by images for all tracks, which were recorded in early January, in Salvador. The pandemic may have kept us away from the Carnival, but it is Ivete Sangalo who invites everyone to return to the party, there is no denying it.
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