Music Caymmi, one of Brazil’s most important singers, dies at 84 years old by Dorival Caymmi, artist played songs from names such as Tom Jobim and Milton Nasciment

Died this Thursday, 1st, the singer Nana Caymmione of the most important of Brazilian music. At 84, she was admitted to the São José Clinic, in the south of Rio de Janeiro. The information was confirmed by the artist’s brother, Daniloin a publication on social networks.

It is with great regret that I communicate the death of my sister, Nana Caymmiand we are, of course, in the family, all very shocked and sad, but she also spent nine months suffering from suffering in a hospital, ICU, a very painful process of various comorbidities, anyway, ”he said.

The cause of death was not revealed. She was hospitalized since last year’s taste and suffered an “overdose of opioids” on Tuesday, as reported Danilo Caymmi to the newspaper The globe.

Nana Caymmi’s trajectory

Composer’s daughter Dorival Caymmi and the singer Stlella Maris, Dinahir Tostes Caymmi Born on April 29, 1941, in Rio de Janeiro. Nana Caymmi He started his career in 1960 after recording “Acalanto”music composed of Dorival in honor of the daughter. The first solo album, with the songs “Goodbye” and “Our Kisses”also came out in the early 60’s.

Some time later, in 1966, she won the International Song Festival with an interpretation of “Saveiros”your brother’s music Dori Caymmi and Nelson Motta.

Nana was married to Gilberto Gil between 1967 and 1969 and with João Donato Between 1972 and 1974. During the more than five decades of career, she played big names in Brazilian music, as Vinícius de Moraes, Tom Jobim and Milton Nascimento.

In the 90s, it was very successful with the albums Bolero (1993) and Response to time (1998), which yielded the first Gold disk after more than 100,000 copies sold.

In 2019, the artist was involved in controversy after sympathetic statements to Jair Bolsonaro and criticism offensive to Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil. “If you want to cancel me, I cancel me. I didn’t stop eating because of that. I found it funny, some would play my records out, others wanted me dead,” Nana joke. – In Brazil, you can’t have an opinion, you are mulled Judas. Unfortunately, here is cattle, you have to go a smell of the other. The globe at the time.

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