Track composed by Cazuza was kept for years and recorded by Ney Matogrosso after his death
cazuza would be 64 years old this Tuesday, April 4th. The singer-songwriter died at age 32 in 1990 and became an icon of Brazilian music. However, it was in 1992 that the song “Poem” came to public. Interpreted by Ney Matogrosso the track became one of the singer’s most famous.
Fact is that cazuza wrote lyrics and poems since he was a child, but he didn’t use to show it to other people besides his maternal grandmother, alice, who died in 1975 when the grandson was only 17 years old. On the occasion, a poem by cazuza came out before her grandmother could read it. The poem is still not the same one sung in the voice of Ney Matogrossobut surprised everyone with the talent of cazuza as a lyricist.
Poems and Secrets
It was then that his paternal grandmother asked her grandson to also write a text for her. Second Lucina Araujo, mother of cazuza, Maria Jose he would have told his grandson that he shouldn’t wait for her to die, he should do it while she was alive.
And so he did. cazuza wrote a poem dedicated to his paternal grandmother, but Maria Jose kept the poetry a secret all her life — and she lived for 100 years, did not hand over the text even after her grandson’s death, claiming that she could not part with a gift.
Was when Maria Jose passed away that Lucina obtained memories that the son had with the grandmother, including a box that contained the sheet with the poem for Maria.
Lucina asked so that Frejat to compose a song based on that poem, and together they decided that the track would sound amazing in the voice of Ney Matogrosso. And of course the singer agreed.
“Poem”
Written in 1975, “Poem” was recorded by Ney Matogrosso in 1999, on the album Lighthouse Eyes. The song became a huge success and is the most played by the performer of all time, immortalizing a lyric that Cazuza wrote at just 17 years old. Check it out below:
Source: Rollingstone
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