2023-05-09 20:28:00
Last Monday night Rita Lee passed away at the age of 75 in his house in São Paulo, but he left in his memory pivotal moments for Brazilian and world cultural history. The artist had been diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021. Since then, the star had undergone medical treatments.
The mutants
In 1966 he generated an expansive wave with his voice and his rock attitude in Os Mutantes, which was one of the first expressions of psychedelic rock in Brazil. Together with Sérgio Dias and Arnaldo Baptista captivated those who were looking for something new in their generation. They were founding times of the Tropicalism with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil to the head.
Separated from Os Mutantes in 1972, she continued her career with the band Tutti Frutti and later as a soloist. She was one of the rock women who with her wardrobe and lyrics that spoke freely of sex and love, she became a feminist icon.
“I was the only girl rocker in the middle of an all-male club, whose mantra was: to rock you have to have balls. I went with my uterus and my ovaries and I felt the same as them, whether they liked it or not.“, he wrote in his autobiography released in 2016.
Perfume Launcher
After Os Mutantes, another milestone in his career was with the release of “Launches Perfume” in 1980. The video clip with skaters plunged into the new decade with all its color. The theme is included in her eighth album and was the one that introduced her to the foreign marketwith singles released in Europe and the United States.
Beatles y Rolling Stones
How might it be otherwise, this woman who was the star of rock in the sixties in Brazil, was opening act for the first Rolling Stones show in Brazil, in 1995.
Already in the 21st century, he published an album with songs by The Beatles in bossa nova version that in Argentina he would present it with Charly García. “Joao Gilberto taught me that I was a rocker with the voice of a Bossa Nova singer,” said Rita Lee in 2019, following his death.
“I chose the Beatles because they were the great musical idols of my youth; for this reason, as a Brazilian fan, I paid this tribute to my heroes with a purely Brazilian sound, never before navigated ”, he declared at the time.
In fifty years of career, published more than 30 albums, was nominated seven times for the Latin Grammy and won once in 2001, in the Best Brazilian Rock Album category, for his album “3001”. The Latin Recording Academy awarded him the Musical Excellence Award in 2022 for his body of work.
In 2022, she revealed to Rolling Stone Brazil magazine that the role of national “queen of rock” attributed to her by Brazilians of all ages did not fully convince her. “I prefer being called ‘patron saint of freedom’ instead of ‘queen of rock’, which seems a bit cheesy to me…”.
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In her autobiography, Rita Lee had imagined how Brazil would react to her death, very much in her style, of course, as acid and ironic as it was accurate: “I can imagine the words of affection from those who hate me. Some radios will play my music without paying for royalties. On social networks, some will say: ‘uh I thought he had already died, ha ha ha ha’. The most sincere will release my records and will sing ‘Ovelha Negra’. On TV they will give summaries of my career, ”she said.
Farewell to Rita Lee
“We announced the death of Rita Lee, at her residence, in São Paulo late last night, surrounded by all the love of her family, as she always wanted,” her family reported through a statement on the networks. social. The wake will be open to the public, at the Ibirapuera Park Planetarium, tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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