Sambista was one of the creators of Cacique de Ramos and composed almost 700 songs
The singer and songwriter Arlindo Cruz Is dead This Friday, 8, at 66 years old. He was hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro. The information was confirmed by the consultant of Arlindinho, son of the musician, EstadãoAnd then shared on the artist’s social networks.
Arlindo lived with the sequences of a brain accident (stroke) in 2017. Since then, his health has had ups and downs and hospitalizations.
The painting was worse in July 2023, when it was reported that the musician was hospitalized in the hospital center of the San José Health House, in the Humaitá district of Rio de Janeiro, to face pneumonia. In the same year, he had bacterial parottes and it was almost a month under medical assistance in the hospital.
The Sambista meeting attracted the attention of the singer Beth Carvalho (1946-2019), who continued not only to attend the boss, but also to collect compositions for his repertoire. On the disc Standing on the floorReleased in 1978, Beth brought the Samba cacique wheel to the studio to reproduce the sound they emitted during the meeting.
In the 1980s, Arrindo was part of the background group, one of the most important of Brazilian samba, together with Bira President, Ubirany, Sereno, Jorge Aragão, Almir Guineto, Sombrinha and Neoci. He remained in the group until the early 90s, when he left in a solo career.
With an umbrella, one of its most constant partners, Arrindo has composed successes like HighAlso written by Zeca Pagodinho e The show must continueWith the adhesion of Luiz Carlos da Vila.
With Zeca Pagodinho, he made so many classics of samba and pagoda, between them, Orange bagassa, Pain of love AND Shrimp sleeping the waveThe latter with the participation of Beto without arm. With Alyr Marques, signed Shameless couple.
Arlindo’s songs were recorded by names such as Beth Carvalho, Alcione, Elza Soares, Maíra Freitas, Almir Guineto, Diogo Nogueira, among other artists.
In 2007, the singer Maria Rita included six songs by Arrindo Cruz in the album My sambaThe first who dedicated himself entirely to Samba. Three of them have become great shots, Is forgiven, In a body AND What is love?. Maria Rita is still recorded by songs by Arrindo as It is body, it is a soul, it is religion AND Crazy desire.
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Arrindo also gained importance as a plot Sambas composer. He composed of schools like Serrano Empire, Vila Isabel and Grande Rio.
During his career, the Sambista regularly recorded the records. In 2009, he launched two volumes from MTV Live. He received five nominations at the Latin Grammy.
His latest album was recorded next to his son, Arlindinho, who pursued his father’s career. In 2017, just before Arrindo suffered the stroke, they released the album together Two Arlindosin which songs such as Good apprentice, Denies the fern AND Parents and children.
Arrindo was also very popular due to television, when the program participated between 2011 and 2017 Heatby TV Globo, presented by Regina Casoni.
In 2022, in a participation in the Podcast Podcast Brito, Babi Cruz declared that Arrindo maintained a very “unruly” routine. “The drug came very early in Arrindo’s life, at school. The drug is not only in samba, it is in better schools,” he said in the interview.
In June 2025, the singer’s biography, The Perfect Sambista – Arrindo Cruz (Editore Malê), was launched during the Biennale of the Book of Rio de Janeiro. The book was written by Marcos Salles. According to a survey conducted by the author, Arrindo wrote over 700 songs.
At the time of launch, Babi Cruz celebrated on social networks. “I was very afraid that this book was not ready here and it is very exciting to deliver this book at this moment that it is taking back from another health problem. Only God knows the dimensions of this importance.”
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Source: Terra
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