POR CAUSA DE VOCÊ

SYLVIA TELLES
COMPOSITORES: DOLORES DURAN & TOM JOBIM
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: CARÍCIA
GRAVADORA: ODEON RECORDS
GÊNERO: SAMBA-CANÇÃO
ANO: 1957
 
            Sylvia D'Atri Telles (Rio de Janeiro, 27 de agosto de 1934 — Maricà, 17 de dezembro de 1966), conhecida simplesmente por Sylvia Telles, foi uma cantora e compositora brasileira, de ascendência francesa e portuguesa, considerada uma das maiores intérpretes da Bossa Nova e da MPB.
            A maioria de seus discos está fora de catálogo, o que dificulta o seu conhecimento pelas gerações recentes. Porém, ocasionalmente é lançada uma compilação com algumas de suas inúmeras gravações.
          Segundo matéria publicada em O Globo e assinada por João Máximo, "Sylvinha foi uma das melhores intérpretes da moderna música brasileira, entendendo-se como tal a que vai de Ponto final – com Dick Farney e Amargura, com Lúcio Alves, até as canções que Tom e Vinicius fizeram depois de Orfeu da Conceição".
          Carícia é o primeiro álbum de estúdio da cantora brasileira Sílvia Telles, lançado em 1957 pela gravadora Odeon. A canção "Foi a Noite", que já tinha sido gravada pela cantora em um 78rpm, recebe novo arranjo para o álbum. "Tu e Eu" tem a participação do cantor Lúcio Alves.

Ah, você está vendo só
Do jeito que eu fiquei
E que tudo ficou?
Uma tristeza tão grande
Nas coisas mais simples
que você tocou
A nossa casa querido
já estava acostumada
Guardando você
As flores na janela
Sorriam, cantavam
Por causa de você
Olha meu bem nunca mais
Nos deixe por favor
Somos a vida e o sonho
Nós somos o amor
Entre, meu bem por favor...
Não deixe o mundo mal
Lhe levar outra vez
Me abrace simplesmente
Não fale, não lembre
Não chore meu bem...

EL HOMBRE QUE YO AMÉ
OMARA PORTUONDO
COMPOSITOR: GEORGE GERSHWIN & IRA GERSHWIN
PAIS: CUBA
ALBUM: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTS OMARA PORTUONDO
DISCOGRÁFICA: WORLD CIRCUIT
GÉNERO: BOLERO
AÑO: 2000
 
          Omara Portuondo Peláez (nacida el 29 de octubre de 1930) es una cantante y bailarina cubana. Miembro fundador del popular grupo vocal Cuarteto d'Aida, Portuondo ha colaborado con importantes músicos cubanos durante su dilatada carrera, entre ellos Julio Gutiérrez, Juanito Márquez y Chucho Valdés. Aunque principalmente conocida por su interpretación de boleros, ha grabado en una amplia gama de estilos, desde jazz hasta son cubano. Desde 1996, ha sido parte del proyecto Buena Vista Social Club, realizando giras extensas y grabando varios álbumes con el conjunto. Ella ganó un Premio Grammy Latino al Mejor Álbum Tropical Contemporáneo en 2009 y Premio Grammy Latino a la Trayectoria en 2019, y recibió tres nominaciones al Premio Grammy.
              Nacido el 29 de octubre de 1930 en el barrio Cayo Hueso de La Habana, Portuondo tuvo tres hermanas. Su madre, Esperanza Peláez, provenía de una familia adinerada de ascendencia española y había creado un escándalo al huir y casarse con un jugador de béisbol profesional negro, Bartolo Portuondo. Omara se unió al grupo de baile del Cabaret Tropicana en 1950, siguiendo a su hermana mayor, Haydee. También bailó en las Mulatas de Fuego en el teatro Radiocentro, y en otros grupos de danza. Las dos hermanas también solían cantar para familiares y amigos, y también actuaron en clubes de La Habana. Portuondo y Haydee se unieron luego en 1947 al Loquibambia Swing, grupo formado por el pianista ciego Frank Emilio Flynn.
            De 1952 a 1953 cantó para la Orquesta Anacaona y posteriormente, en 1953, ambas hermanas se incorporaron (junto a Elena Burke y Moraima Secada) al grupo de canto Cuarteto d'Aida, formado y dirigido por la pianista Aida Diestro. El grupo tuvo un éxito considerable, recorriendo los Estados Unidos, actuando con Nat King Cole en el Tropicana y grabando un álbum de 1957 para RCA Victor. En 1958, el pianista y compositor Julio Gutiérrez invitó a Portuondo a cantar para su conjunto en una serie de grabaciones que conectaban el jazz y música cubana para el sello discográfico Velvet. El resultado fue Magia Negra, su álbum debut en solitario. Haydee dejó el Cuarteto d'Aida en 1961 para vivir en los Estados Unidos, y Omara continuó cantando con el cuarteto hasta 1967.

No sé qué tengo yo, qué triste estoy
Las horas de dolor, qué largas son
No puedo soportar las ganas de llorar
El hombre que yo amé, ya lo perdí
Y nunca más podré amar así
Muy sola quedaré con el dolor, de amarlo más
No podré olvidar las horas
Tan felices que pasé
Cuando estuve entre sus brazos
Y mi vida le entregué, con ansias
El hombre que yo amé, ya lo perdí
Y nunca más podré amar así
Muy sola quedaré con el dolor
De amarlo más
 
No podré olvidar las horas
Tan felices que pasé
Cuando estuvo entre mis brazos
Y mi vida le entregué, con ansias
El hombre que yo amé, ya lo perdí
Y nunca más podré amar así
Muy sola quedaré con el dolor
De amarlo más.

KORA MUSIC FROM WEST AFRICA

SONA JOBARTEH & BAND
Songwrither: sona jobarteh
Country: u. k. x gambia
Album: afro acoustic sound
Label: African guild records
Instrument: kora
Genre: acoustic west africa
Year: 2008
 
         Sona Jobarteh is a unique and pioneering musical icon of her time whose renown has been rapidly flourishing globally. Born into a Griot family from the Gambia, a tradition that dates back 7 centuries, she is the first female within this tradition to become a professional virtuoso on the Kora. Her music is uniquely poised between the preservation of her rich cultural heritage and an accessible, modern style that relates to the current era and to audiences from all over the world. At the heart of her success as an artist is her dedication to humanitarian activism in the areas of social development and educational reform on the continent of Africa.
             Sona Jobarteh is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from the Gambia. She was born in 1983 into one of the five principal kora-playing griot families from West Africa – she is the first female professional kora player to come from a griot family. She is the cousin of the well-known, celebrated kora player Toumani Diabate as well as the sister of the renowned diaspora kora player Tunde Jegede.
           She gave her first performance at London's Jazz Café when she was four years old, and performed at festivals several times in her early childhood.
        When still a music student she worked on several orchestral projects including the "River of Sound" with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, featuring Evelyn Glennie, and other collaborative works including performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Milton Keynes City Orchestra and the Viva Chamber Orchestra.
        In 2002 she performed in Vienna with the renowned jazz vocalist Cleveland Watkiss, also forming a part of his support act for Cassandra Wilson at the Barbican in London. She also featured on Damon Albarn's Mali Music Project which was later performed for Jools Holland.
           She has collaborated on stage with Oumou Sangaré, Toumani Diabaté, Kasse Made Diabaté and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Jobarteh is a regular member of her brother Tunde Jegede's African Classical Music Ensemble, which has toured England, Ireland, Africa and parts of the Caribbean. She has contributed to his albums Malian Royal Court Music and Lamentations, for which she composed two pieces, one of which also featured on the album Trance Planet Vol. 5 (released on Triloka records, Virgin in the US). She also works with the distinguished spoken-word artist HKB FiNN as an instrumentalist, co-writer, singer and producer. For her solo work, such as her performance at the 2014 Festival Internacional Cervantino, in Mexico, she has a band with members Kari Bannermann on electric guitar, Kyazi Lugangira on acoustic guitar, Mamadou Sarr on African percussions (as calabash or djembe), Alexander Boateng on drums and Andi McLean on the bass.
           Her debut album was Afro-Acoustic Soul, containing songs about bittersweet love and social themes. The influences on this album are mixed with some that could be played on more conventional European radio formats. Her second was Fasiya (2011).
Jobarteh also teaches the kora in London. She worked with her father, Sanjally Jobarteh, in setting up a formal music school in the Gambia, named after her famous grandfather.
             She is English-born of African heritage, and strongly identifies with the latter. Spending significant time in both England and the Gambia, she blends different musical styles, from both the European and West African traditions. However, unlike her contemporaries, she explores and expands on traditional African roots rather than trying to fuse them with contemporary hip-hop and jazz. Instead, she looks to reinterpret traditional music. In addition to the kora, she also sings and plays the guitar.

SLEIGH RIDE

JOHNNY MATHIS
SONGWRITERS: LEROY ANDERSON & MITCHELL PARISH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: MERRY CHRISTMAS JOHNNY MATHIS
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG
YEAR: 1958
 
            John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date. Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three separate recordings.
Although frequently described as a romantic singer, his discography includes traditional pop, Brazilian and Spanish music, soul, rhythm and blues, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, soft rock, blues, country music, and even a few disco songs for his album Mathis Magic in 1979. Mathis has also recorded six albums of Christmas music. In a 1968 interview, Mathis cited Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, and Bing Crosby among his musical influences.
             Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis and was released by Columbia Records on October 6, 1958. The selections are a mix of traditional Christmas carols ("Silent Night", "O Holy Night", "The First Noel") and holiday hits ("The Christmas Song", "White Christmas", "Silver Bells").
           The album debuted on Billboard magazine's list of the 25 Best-Selling Pop LPs in the US in its December 15, 1958, issue and got as high as number three during its initial four-week run. It made additional appearances there each holiday season from 1959 to 1962 and on the magazine's Christmas Albums and Pop Catalog Albums charts in subsequent years. It received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the US in December 1960 and in 2013 ranked as one of the top selling Christmas albums of all time with five million copies sold.
       Four songs from the album – "Winter Wonderland", "Blue Christmas", "White Christmas", and "Sleigh Ride" – were also released on the EP Merry Christmas, Vol. 1, which reached number two during the 1958 holiday season and number seven the following year on the magazine's Best-Selling Pop EPs chart. "Winter Wonderland" also spent three weeks on the UK singles chart, where his recording peaked at number 17 over the course of three weeks that began on Christmas Day 1958.
          The album was initially released only in the monaural format but became available in stereo in 1959. It was issued in the UK by Fontana Records and was later reissued in 1962 with a different cover both there and in the US. The original cover was used for compact disc pressings, the first of which was in 1984, and an edition featuring two bonus tracks was released on September 16, 2003. The 2015 Mathis compilation The Complete Christmas Collection 1958–2010, a 3-CD set on the Real Gone Music label, also includes the album in its track list.

Just hear those sleigh bells jingle-ing, ring-ting-tingle-ing too
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling "You Hoo"
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
 
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up let's go, Let's look at the show
We're riding in a wonderland of snow
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up it's grand, Just holding your hand
We're gliding along with a song of a wintery fairy land
 
Our cheeks are nice and rosy and comfy cozy are we
We've snuggled close together like two birds of a feather would be
Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or two
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
 
There's a birthday party at the home of Farmer Gray
It'll be the perfect ending of a perfect day
We'll be singing the songs we love to sing without a single stop
At the fireplace where we'll watch the chestnuts pop
Pop! Pop! Pop!
 
There's a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy
When they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie
It'll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives
These wonderful things are the things we remember all through our li-ives
These wonderful things are the things we remember all through our lives
 
Just hear those sleigh bells jingle-ing , ring-ting-tingle-ing too
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling "You Hoo"
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
 
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up let's go, Let's look at the show
We're riding in a wonderland of snow-ow
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up it's grand, Just holding your hand
We're gliding along with a song of a wintery fairy land
 
Nice and rosy and comfy cozy are we
We've snuggled close together like two birds of a feather would be
Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or two
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with
Lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with (fade).