Singer, composer, actress. She is remembered as one of the most important female singers of Brazil, in a time when the Brazilian Popular Music and the new movement of Bossa Nova began to flourish and get known world wide in the late 50'. Composer of her own songs, she was considered a woman ahead of her time. She recorded the first full Bossa Nova album, entitled O Barquinho (The little boat) in 1961, and many works of Vinicius de Moraes, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dolores Duran, among others, became famous in her voice. She also recorded songs in Italian, English, Spanish and French - in this language, Jacques Brel's Ne me quitte pas (Don't leave me) is considered by many her ultimate interpretation of a song, which she presented to the composer himself at a concert in the famous Olympia of Paris and received an ovation that asked for three encores. In spite of a well known lifetime of alcohol abuse much commented by the press, her death took place at Rio Niteroi bridge, where her car crashed on the concrete division of its two lanes: she was under treatment and sober. She is still considered one of the greatest stars of Brazilian music, and gained a biographical TV series directed by her own son, Jayme Monjardim, in 2009.
Singer, composer, actress. She is remembered as one of the most important female singers of Brazil, in a time when the Brazilian Popular Music and the new movement of Bossa Nova began to flourish and get known world wide in the late 50'. Composer of her own songs, she was considered a woman ahead of her time. She recorded the first full Bossa Nova album, entitled O Barquinho (The little boat) in 1961, and many works of Vinicius de Moraes, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dolores Duran, among others, became famous in her voice. She also recorded songs in Italian, English, Spanish and French - in this language, Jacques Brel's Ne me quitte pas (Don't leave me) is considered by many her ultimate interpretation of a song, which she presented to the composer himself at a concert in the famous Olympia of Paris and received an ovation that asked for three encores. In spite of a well known lifetime of alcohol abuse much commented by the press, her death took place at Rio Niteroi bridge, where her car crashed on the concrete division of its two lanes: she was under treatment and sober. She is still considered one of the greatest stars of Brazilian music, and gained a biographical TV series directed by her own son, Jayme Monjardim, in 2009.
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