Excerpt from a 2014 show in which the singer exchanges greetings for Iemanjá with a Christian reference ended up raising questions and criticism of Claudia Leitte’s position
A video with Claudia Leitte went viral in recent days, highlighting the singer changing the lyrics of a song that alludes to an African orixá.
The song in question is “Crab”success of New Ruffle released in 2004. In the video in question, an excerpt from the show AxeMusic: Live in Recifereleased in 2014, Claudia replaces the original mention of Iemanjá with one of Yeshuá – the name of Jesus Christ in Hebrew.
“I only praise my King Yeshua”
Claudia Leite simply changed the lyrics so as not to salute Yemanjá. pic.twitter.com/TASUGA76tV
— Africanize (@africanize_) February 13, 2024
“Tide is full/Wait to empty/Throw flowers into the sea/I only praise my king Yeshua”, sings Claudia in the video. In the original song, the lyrics say “Saluteing Queen Iemanjá”.
In the comments to the post that made the excerpt go viral, users question the fact that Claudia Leitte, who is openly Protestant, participates in Carnival culture:
“The right thing would also be for her not to want to score a hit during Carnival, or be at the biggest party in Brazil, especially because her religion also abhors pagan parties.”
Another user even accuses Leitte of hypocrisy for making money doing axé, and not gospel:
“This person only sings Axé for the money and fame, but deep down he has an aversion to the rhythm. He could very well leave his hypocrisy aside and go sing gospel.”
There were also those who defended Claudia in response to the post: “Wait… You went after a 2014 video for the military for what??? In fact, speaking of militancy, religious intolerance applies to all religion, see, I’m just watching Twitter people judging her religion… HYPOCRISY”
Carnival and religion
The video with Claudia Leitte went viral days after another moment involving Carnival and religion gained repercussion. Baby from Brazilguest of the trio of Ivete Sangalo in Salvador, he used the microphone to announce: “Everyone pay attention because we are entering an apocalypse. The rapture is likely to happen in 5 to 10 years.”
The phrase generated a quick and good-humored response from Ivete, who said: “I’m not going to let it happen, because there’s no apocalypse when we cheat on him” – just to amend her track “Macetando”one of the hits of Carnival in 2024.
🚨Baby from Brazil saying that the Apocalypse is close and Ivete Sangalo saying: “There is no Apocalypse right when we cheat on it!” at their meeting at Carnival:pic.twitter.com/bqZnNky9Dn
— Luan Carvalho (@Luan84039399) February 11, 2024
The video of the interaction went viral and Baby do Brasil, who is also an evangelical pastor, ended up using social media to deny that the situation had caused discomfort between her and Ivete:
“Hello my people, it’s 6:24 am, and I’m making this post to record what I said in yesterday’s post, about the loving and honorable tribute I received from my dear friend of so many years, Ivete Sangalo. I think it’s important to record it here so that everyone can definitively know that we have no beef between us, quite the contrary, there is only the great divine love that unites us in God! And once again I record here Mahatma Gandhi’s famous phrase: ‘Divergence of opinion is not a reason for fights!’. Don’t worry, I love her in Christ Jesus! She is loved by the Father!”
Source: Rollingstone
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