MusicAmabbi shares his worldview in the first album of his career, Versos e Voos

2024 was a special year for Beatriz Carvalho Nascimentobetter known as Amabbi. Born in São Paulo, the artist has released several singles and an EP since 2022, when she began her artistic career. But it was last year that Versos e Voos (2024), her first album, arrived to show the public a more mature version of the singer.

THE Rolling Stone Brazilthe artist revealed that the songs were born in an unpretentious way and only after a while did she realize that the material could make a bigger project. The initial idea was to distance herself a little from trap, the genre in which she worked most frequently to date. “I wanted something that I could play with a band,” he says.

The name was based on the book Between Verses and Flights (2021), by Ive Lima. “She talks about her vision of metamorphosis, her vision of the feminine world,” he recalls. If the author finds writing the best way to express her worldview, Amabbi He does that with songs. “Reading the book, I asked myself how I see the world.”

For me, the world moves by feeling. And I talk a lot about feelings. It’s the answer that Ive Lima gave me: ‘What moves the world for you?’, for me it’s the feeling.

Amabbi says that reading poems helps her with compositions and quotes Texts too cruel to read quickly (2017), by Igor Pires da Silva as one of the books and brought it closer to the genre. “But I really like reading about criminal investigation,” he reveals. References also come from music icons such as Tim Maiashe quotes Rational (1975), for example.

No space for labels

Along the tracks Verses and Flightswe were able to identify elements of musical genres such as R&B, samba rock and pagode. Amabbi does not attribute a specific rhythm to the album, but prefers to divide it into three phases: the cocoon, the chrysalis and the butterfly.

“There are different moments for different types of people,” he explains. “To be an album that many people can listen to, it has to be attributed to several genres.” From this point on, the artist allows herself to play and explore the most diverse genres – and, between us, the choice is the right one.

During the production process the boiler Amabbi she was filling up with references, she says that when she sent “My Time” to Duduhe recommended her the classic Emerald Tablet (1974), from Jorge Ben Jor. Furthermore, she brings with her the artists she has listened to since childhood, such as Alcyonethe aforementioned Tim Maia, Elis Regina, Cazuza, Caetano Veloso. She even says that she prepares versions of some of these artists’ songs for the stage.

Gospel also influences the singer’s music. “My grandfather was a reteté pastor,” he jokes. “My mother played the keyboard, organ and piano in church. All my cousins ​​and my brother played too.” The family’s musical streak came at a good time, everyone participated in the album. “I needed a choir, so I called the whole family.”

It was also from the family that some of the musical knowledge came – such as pagode do Popular Art and the rap of Racionais MC’s – and it is to her family that she dedicates some of her songs. “I made ‘Vinho no Bar’ for a cousin who dances samba rock with her husband.”

Special guests

The three phases sung by Amabbi gain a new layer with the participation of NP VocalBuddha, Shaman, FBC, Dudu and Marquinhos on Beat. She says she already had an idea of ​​who she wanted to be on the album.

She says that she and FBC There are other songs that won’t be released because “it’s already passed.” Buddha was the last to enter the album and Amabbi calls it “the icing on the cake.” Although they have been friends for some time, she and Dudu They still didn’t work together.

“Money,” track in partnership with Shaman It was made in hours and initially wouldn’t be on the album. But for the artist, it was a way of signaling that she did not abandon trap, despite the focus of Verses and Flights not be the gender. This wasn’t the only track that was left out, but the artist remains mysterious about the future of the songs that haven’t yet seen the light of day. One thing is certain: Amabbi showed that he knows very well what he is doing with his verses and flights.