In an interview with Rolling Stone Brasil, Guilherme Samora, the ‘ghost’ of Rita Lee’s biography, spoke about the trajectory of the great rocker
Rita Lee, one of the greatest singers and songwriters in the history of Brazilian music, died on Monday, the 8th, at the age of 75. We remember interview with Guilherme Samorawho edited the book Rita Lee — An Autobiographyoriginally published in November 2022.
In November 2016, the book “Rita Lee — An Autobiography” was finally released by Editora Globo, after development times. Written by herself Rita Leethe work includes the editions of Guilherme Samoraprobably the greatest scholar of the singer’s cultural legacy in Brazil, who spoke with the Rolling Stone Brazil about the rocker’s career.
Heard during the Special Rita Lee, at the same time that the singer became the cover of Rolling Stone, Guilherme Samora spoke not only about the trajectory of one of the greatest voices in national rock, but also remembered his own relationship with the singer, with whom he became friends.
I don’t remember much of life without Rita. I am a very musical person, I believe a lot thanks to her and also to my parents. One of the first words I spoke in my life was maria-mole, for singing the lyrics to her song. Every time a record came out, I went to the front of the store to buy it.”
According to the author, who was also the artistic director of an exhibition on Rita Lee which sold out tickets in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the relationship between fan and idol soon became a friendship. “I started going to concerts, to everything. And she saw it, because she was a little brat there”, he said. William.
“And then I started to go into the dressing room a lot, there was a time when we started to connect, soon after came the email thing, we always agreed to go to a show. And we got closer and closer. It’s been a relationship for a long time, forever Rita It’s in my life,” he said.
Responsible for the mugshot of Rita Lee used on the cover of the biography, William participated in the launch as Phantom, a “ghost” that dialogues with and sometimes corrects the author’s own memories. “She never made plans. And I remember the books were kind of flat too,” he said.
In addition to narrating more details about the backstage of the work, during the interview with Rolling Stone Brazil, William also commented on the relationship of Rita Lee with her audience and talked about the period in which the singer was censored. That’s because, in her research for the show about the rocker, Samora found out that Rita was the most censored artist in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship.
Among a bunch of men who also had compositions that they questioned, it was precisely a woman [a mais censurada]. It is not by chance”, recalled the author. “It’s pretty crazy to see where the Rita arrived, what is the Rita today. Rita is the greatest artist in this universe. […] Much of her audience is teenagers and, for them, Rita means a very free thing.”
Pointing out that theRita Lee — An Autobiography” is a “sensational book, a thing of memory”, William concludes by stating that its “mission has a lot to do with keeping the memory of Rita, because it is a lot that she did”. Check out the interview below Guilherme Samora The Rolling Stone Brazil:
Source: Rollingstone
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