Sons João Marcello Bôscoli and Pedro Mariano and musical partner Jair Rodrigues tell their memories of the singer
Born in Porto Alegre, on March 17, 1945, Elis Regina Carvalho Costa named by the poet Vinicius de Moraes in pepper, due to his explosive temperament and for saying everything that came to his mind. And this girl with a strong personality became one of the greatest – if not the greatest – Brazilian singers of all time. From 1961 to 1980, she recorded 18 studio and six live albums. From the marriage to the composer, producer and journalist Ronaldo Boscolithe son came Joao Marcello Boscoli. Already with the pianist and arranger Cesar Camargo Marianoshe had Maria Rita It is Pedro Mariano. Elis left early, aged 36, on January 19, 1982, in São Paulo, due to an overdose of cocaine and alcohol.
João Marcello Bôscoli was born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1970, and today he is one of the most important musical entrepreneurs in Brazil. He guarantees that he inherited his mother’s total delivery and belief in the craft. “About the taste for music, she kept her concert season until the eighth month of my pregnancy. So how could it be different? For him, his mother is Pelé in the corner. “We need several singers combined to maybe come close to your talent. It’s a genetic accident,” he adds.
From his day-to-day life with his mother, João Marcello misses home activities, such as cooking, cleaning the house, covering his notebooks and being taken to school by her. To illustrate their relationship, he says: “Once, she had back pain and came to sleep in my bed. I felt like a superhero, taking care of her and patting her head”. Today, he is the father of Arthur, born in August 2011 and the result of his marriage to presenter Eliana. João Marcello says that he hopes to be able to love and respect him as he was for his mother, and also give him freedom and clear limits, in addition to contact with nature.
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Born in 1975, Pedro Mariano did not have as intense contact with Elis as João Marcello.
“My memories of her are, in fact, a great mixture of images, which were formed over time by stories told to me. I have flashes of her in my memory, but nothing very clear, which is very frustrating”, comments Pedro. “I would love to sit down and remember these stories. Might miss it, but actually it doesn’t. As for the artist, like everyone else, I have several images, but they also end up mixing with things I saw in TV or newspaper articles.”
With regard to learning, Pedro Mariano is adamant:
“Everything I do I learned from my father, who was always careful to credit many of his actions to her as well. They experienced many things together professionally. Their stories intertwine. Sometimes he tells me that some of my personality traits as a musician are similar to hers. It could be genetics, or it could be that from watching him work so closely I could have absorbed traits common to both”.
Maria Rita was unable to speak to the reporters of Rolling Stone Brazil.
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great partners
Another remarkable presence in Elis Regina’s life was the singer Jair Rodrigueswhich recalls that the first meeting between the two took place backstage on the television show Lunch with the Starsin Airton Rodrigues It is Lolita Rodriguesat Tupi TV. “I was starting to have my hits, like ‘Deixa Isso pra Lá’, and she was coming from the festivals, with ‘Arrastão’. We were on the same record label. We met at night, but it was on the show where we chatted more comfortably. She said she was a fan of mine and would like me to sign her autograph, and I suggested we exchange pleasantries. From there, a great friendship was born”, says Rodrigues.
In the program itself, Airton Rodrigues noticed the great rapport between the two and asked that one sing the other’s song. Days later, on April 8, 1965, Jair Rodrigues went to participate in a show at the Paramount Theater, with a production of walter silvaO WoodpeckerIt is Manuel Barenbein, and found Elis again. It was there that the idea of rehearsing the potpourri two in bossawhich included songs from Vinicius de Moraes, Tom Jobim and Zé Kétibetween others.
Together, Jair Rodrigues and Elis Regina recorded three live albums, all with the title two in bossaand ran the program O Fino da Bossa, from TV Record, for three years. “We combined hunger with the desire to eat. It was a general joy, total and unrestricted, both outside and inside the stage. We lived on a bed of roses,” he says. After the program went off the air, the two singers continued to meet, so much so that Elis became a great friend of Jair’s wife, Clodine. Interestingly, the couple’s first child, Jairzinhowas born on the same day as Pimentinha.
“I really miss this girl”, concluded the singer, who is happy with the fact that his children are very friendly with Elis’s children.
Article by Guilherme Bryan published in 2012 in Rolling Stone Brasil
Source: Rollingstone
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