The advertiser was present in the conversation that led to the segment of the song that says “I’ll call the manager: Tim Maia”
Washington Olivettoone of the greatest advertisers in the history of Brazil, died this Sunday, 13 years old, at the age of 73. friend of Jorge Ben Jorhad a special relationship with Brazilian music, being directly linked to the origins of the music With Brazil – the name of your company.
In January 2022, the businessman welcomed the musician for an interview on his podcast, W/Cast. The topic inevitably came up at some point.
Washington recalled doing shows for employees of his agency, W/Brasil. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, one of the events would take place at a place called Rock Dreams, in Rio de Janeiro.
“When Jorge does a show he is generous, he doesn’t do a show for 45 minutes, no. The audience went crazy. Then, between one song and another, he started to feel something for the kids, he said: ‘Bye, bye, C/Brazil! Bye, bye, with Brazil!”.
“The show ended at 3 in the morning. We sat down to dinner. Jorge and Vânia Rolemberg, who was my PR [relações-públicas]. We started talking about how crazy Brazil was, that it was the “Country of Collor” and so on. I told Jorge: Brazil is so crazy that if it were a building, the building manager would be Tim Maia. He looked at me and said: ‘You don’t know: he already wanted to be the administrator of the building he lived in!'” Olivetto continued.
Then Jorge Ben explained how he discovered the fact: “I went to his building, I lived in Barra. He came to me and told me: ‘I have already complained about that staircase there, about the door that is annoying. Nobody removes the stairs! Well, I have to, I’m talking about becoming the manager here, I’ll apply and become the manager here.”
Source: Terra
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