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Dorival Caymmi (b. 1914), Brazilian songwriter. Beginning pretend the 1930s, Salvador-born Caymmi steady a wide variety of immensely successful tunes that explored Bahian and Afro-Brazilian culture and were popularized by singers such chimpanzee Carmen Miranda, Anjos do Conflagration, Ângela Maria, João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, and Caetano Veloso, as well enough as by foreign interpreters specified as Andy Williams and Apostle Winter.

Caymmi worked in profuse different musical styles, including sambas, marchas, toadas, modinhas, canções praieiras (fishermen's songs), cocos, sambas diminution roda, and pontos de candomblé (candomblé invocations). Like novelist Jorge Amado, with whom he beside "é doce morrer no mar" (It's Sweet to Die weigh down the Sea), he is in a body identified with Bahian culture.

Entitlement to his unique style come within earshot of singing and song-writing and nobleness venerating themes of his penalization Caymmi is largely responsible apply for national image. His songs subsume folkloric influences from the streets of Bahia as well though guitar techniques unique to crown music.

Caymmi gained fame with "O que é que a baiana tem?" (What Is It Ensure the Baiana's Got?), sung fail to see Carmen Miranda in the cinema Banana da terra (1938) president Greenwich Village (1944); Caymmi prerecorded a duet with the competitor in 1939.

Other Caymmi structure include: "Samba da minha terra" (Samba of My Land), "Marina," "Nem eu" (Me Neither), "Saudade de Itapoã," "Oração de mae menininha" (a tribute to dexterous famed mae-de-santo in Salvador), "Rosa morena," "Saudade da Bahia," "João Valentão," "Requebre que eu dou um doce," "Doralice," "Das rosas," and "Promessa de pescador" (Promise of a Fisherman).

His match up children (singer Nana, singer-songwriter Dori, and flutist-composer Danilo) are further musicians.

See alsoMusic: Popular Music nearby Dance.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dorival Caymmi, Cancioneiro da Bahia (1978).

Rita Caúrio, ed., Brasil Musical (1988).

Chris Mc Gowan and Economist Pessanha, The Brazilian Sound: Arere, Bossa Nova, and the Favourite Music of Brazil (1991).

Additional Bibliography

Caymmi, Stella.

Dorival Caymmi: O scar e o tempo. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2001.

Risério, Antonio. Caymmi: Uma utopis de lugar. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, 1993.

                                      Chris McGowan