Virginia Rodrigues

Virgínia Rodrigues (born Salvador, Bahia, March 31, 1964) is a Brazilian singer.{{cite web|url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-03-30/entertainment/18175312_1_moreno-veloso-caetano-veloso-brazilian-music|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616075202/http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-03-30/entertainment/18175312_1_moreno-veloso-caetano-veloso-brazilian-music|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2012|title=Two From Brazil's New Wave - New York Daily News|last=Guzman|first=Isaac|date=March 30, 2001|work=Daily News|accessdate=17 September 2011}} Her music has an influence of classical music, samba, and jazz, and her lyrics reference Candomblé and Umbanda entities.

Biography

Virgínia Rodrigues was born in Salvador, Bahia on March 31, 1964. She had started her career by singing in both Catholic and Protestant church choirs. In 1997, she was invited by the director Márcio Meirelles to participate in the play Bye Bye Pelô, alongside the Bando de Teatro Olodum. During rehearsals, she discovered by Caetano Veloso.{{Cite web |title=Virgínia Rodrigues |url=https://dicionariompb.com.br/artista/virginia-rodrigues/ |website=Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira |language=pt-br}}

Her first album Sol Negro (1997) was produced by Celso Fonseca and had arrangements by Eduardo Souto Neto, and the participation of Djavan, Gilberto Gil, and Milton Nascimento. It was released on the Rykodisc label and was well received in the United States and Europe. The Times of London described Rodrigues as "... The new diva of Brazilian music".{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} The album also received good reviews in Le Monde and the magazine Rolling Stone.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}

Rodrigues second album, Nós (2000), paid homage to the blocos afros of Salvador, featuring songs of Ilê Aiyê, Olodum, Timbalada, Araketu and Afreketê. This album was also well received, with reviews in The New York Times{{Cite news |last=Strauss |first=Neil |date=2000-03-23 |title=THE POP LIFE; Subtlety Instead Of a Samba Suite |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/23/arts/the-pop-life-subtlety-instead-of-a-samba-suite.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527140151/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/23/arts/the-pop-life-subtlety-instead-of-a-samba-suite.html |archive-date=2015-05-27 |access-date=2024-03-29 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} and All-Music Guide.{{Cite web |last=Cook |first=Stephen |title=Nos - Virginia Rodrigues {{!}} Album {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/nos-mw0000604124#review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714014702/https://www.allmusic.com/album/nos-mw0000604124#review |archive-date=2012-07-14 |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=AllMusic}}

Her third album, Mares Profundos (2003),{{Cite web |title=Virgínia Rodrigues |url=https://immub.org/artista/virginia-rodrigues |website=IMMuB}} was released on the German label Deutsche Grammophon and features 11 African-sambas composed between 1962 and 1966 by guitarist Baden Powell and poet Vinicius de Moraes. The program closes with samba "Lapinha" (Baden-Paulo Cesar Pinheiro).

Her fourth album, Recomeço (2008) was released by Biscoito Fino and features poetry by Chico Buarque.

Rodrigues regularly appears at festivals of jazz and world music throughout the world, participating in several world tours. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton once said that she was the singer who he liked best in the world and mentioned her in his memoir My Life.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}

Discography

;Albums

Sol Negro (1997)
Nós (2000)
Mares Profundos (2003)
Recomeço (2008)
Mama Kalunga (2015)
Cada Voz E Uma Mulher (2019)

;Contributing artist

Unwired: Latin America (2001, World Music Network)

Filmography

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Year ! Title ! Role ! Language ! class="unsortable" \|Note
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1996	Tieta of Agreste	Cantora \| rowspan=6\|Brazil Film	{{cite web \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/136837/Tieta/overview \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307174437/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/136837/Tieta/overview \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=7 March 2016 \|department=Movies & TV Dept. \|work=The New York Times \|author=Sandra Brennan \|date=2016 \|title=Tieta of Agreste \|accessdate=7 October 2015 }}{{cite book\|author=Philip Galinsky\|title=Maracatu Atomico: Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in the Mangue Movement and the "New Music Scene" of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zc1cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA101\|date=16 December 2013\|publisher=Taylor & Francis\|isbn=978-1-136-71728-4\|pages=101}}
2001	Drums and Gods	A Tristeza
2003	Gregório de Mattos	Cantora de Rua	Biographical Film.
2007	Ó Paí, Ó	Bioncetão
2014	O Casamento de Gorete	Como Raimunda	{{Cite web\|title=O Casamento de Gorete\|website=IMDb \|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4340222/}}
2019	Mahira	Action thriller

References

External links

[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p310062/ Listen]
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Michael Church, [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/virginia-rodrigues-the-diva-of-the-favelas-63902.html "Virginia Rodrigues: The diva of the favelas"], The Independent, 12 March 2004.

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century Brazilian women singers

Category:21st-century Brazilian singers

Category:1964 births

Category:20th-century Brazilian women singers

Category:20th-century Brazilian singers

Category:Musicians from Salvador, Bahia