At the age of 74, the singer honored by a new generation at the Latin Grammys maintains her ‘careful discretion’ and stands up to the tudo of social networks
Talking about yesterday’s Rita Lee is easier. There is a solid idea, even bordering on the cancellation of clichés, that evokes the “brave woman”, the “rocker precursor”, the “indomitable rebel” and the “eternal mutant” – all legitimate and motivated actions such as the one that the Latin Grammy just finished asking female voices to sing. Giulia Be, Luísa Sonza, Manu Gavassi and the more veteran Paula Lima arrived, but Annita, Liniker, Ney Matogrosso, Pitty, Glória Groove, Vanessa Moreno, Criss, Patricia Bastos, Tulipa Ruiz, Xênia França could have also come. Anyone who sings anything in Brazil after 1966 may not even know it, but it had her influence.
Less visible by choice, since the world has begun to get hysterical, Rita needs to be deciphered in her silence. Today it is he, the absence of sound, who proves him to be courageous, precursor and indomitable. While the order must appear, seal, go viral and engage with strategies that combine singles / factoids with a frequency of, at most, 30 in 30 days, as they rule streaming platforms, creating a digital feedback value, Rita is retires with Robert de Carvalho. She is recovering from the year she fought a relentless battle with lung cancer with her hair still short and sensitivity heightened, but long ago she had already decided to disappear. Rita does not give interviews other than by email, does not accept internet invitations or TV shows and does not perform live on tour after the show with a lot of police brutality and other bad memories that ended up in a police station in Sergipe – and someday it will be numbered scattering dirt everywhere – in January 2012. The world has become too heavy metal for Rita Lee’s rock and roll.
Silence, at 74, is his latest rebellion. A silence that becomes noise in the logic of pop stars: how do you stop between so many notes? Invisibility among so many peacocks? Meekness in ostentation? It must not be easy to overcome the temptation of the viral and the mega exposure in the game that always gives the public results with the worst of all likes. Tired of the indifference to your albums, little Gilberto stepped on the Brazilian flag and achieved ten or eleven hours of social media fame. And certainly a few more followers. anitanurturing his fan base among singles, he went to the tattoo artist in 2021 to record the moment he outlined his anal region.
The noises of Rita’s times produced the opposite: non-public, disappearance and imprisonment. Her high visibility at the time even made the police find a way to find 300 grams of marijuana, cigarette remains and a very dangerous hookah in her residence. Pregnant with Beto Lee, she didn’t smoke weed not out of puritanism, which wasn’t her case, but out of her maternal instinct. Without a cell phone to record the scene, post it on her instagram and get thousands of likes, Elis Regina went to visit her, berating her gorillas as she held her six-year-old son João Marcello Bôscoli in her arms. She lets them take care of their friend. The cops fell silent and Rita’s voice never stopped ringing.
Source: Terra
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