‘I’ve loved you since I saw you, since I heard you,’ Rita declared to her friend; the audio was published on the official profile of the singer, who passed away in 2023
“Very close to Gilberto”
Gilberto Gil AND Rita Lee They have been friends since the 60s. She said that her friend had introduced her to a concept of Brazilian that she wasn’t aware of and she fell in love with it.
Gil played with Os Mutantes Sunday at the parkin 1967, in the iconic presentation at Brazilian popular music festival. Together, they helped form Tropicália, together Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Tom Ze Torquato Netoamong others. In 1977, Gil invited her to do the show Remembrancewhich became a live album.
Since then, the friendship between Rita and Gil has grown beyond music: the singer invited Gil to be the godfather of her firstborn, Beto Lee, so they always called each other “compadre and comadre”.
“He always treated me as ‘protected,’” said Rita, in an interview at the Instituto Gil. “It was an older brother who showed me a colorful Brazil that I barely knew. It was from him that I learned that Prohibition was forbidden.”
Gil also declared himself a friend on several occasions. In 2023, after the singer’s death, he said: “Rita brought together millions of people with her extraordinary singing and extraordinary ability to ironize the grotesqueness of the world. Rita is the immensity of her.”
Source: Terra
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