Elis Regina

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Portuguese name Template:Infobox person Elis Regina Carvalho Costa (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 1982), known professionally as Elis Regina (Template:IPA), was a Brazilian singer of Bossa nova, MPB and jazz music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and Pedro Mariano.<ref name="TheBrazilian">Template:Cite book</ref>

She became nationally renowned in 1965 after singing "Arrastão" (composed by Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes) in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record. She was noted for her vocalization as well as for her interpretation and performances in shows. Her recordings include "Como Nossos Pais" (Belchior), "Upa Neguinho" (E. Lobo and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri), "Madalena" (Ivan Lins), "Casa no Campo" (Zé Rodrix and Tavito), "Águas de março" (Tom Jobim), "Atrás da Porta" (Chico Buarque and Francis Hime), "O Bêbado e a Equilibrista" (Aldir Blanc and João Bosco), "Conversando no Bar" (Milton Nascimento).

Her death, at the age of 36, shocked Brazil.<ref name="Brasil.gov">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Goés, 2007, p.187</ref><ref>Pugialli, 2006, p.170.</ref><ref>Silva, 2002, p.193.</ref><ref>Arashiro, 1995, p.39.</ref>

Biography

Childhood home of Elis Regina, in Porto Alegre

Elis Regina in Teatro da Praia, 1969. National Archives of Brazil

Elis Regina was born in Porto Alegre, where she began her career as a singer at an early age on the children's radio show Clube de Guri.<ref name="Dougan">Template:Cite web</ref> In her early teens she signed a record contract and a couple years later traveled to Rio de Janeiro, where she recorded her first album.<ref name="Dougan" /><ref name="Brasil.gov"/> She won her first festival song contest in 1965 singing "Arrastão" ("Pull the Trawling Net")<ref name="won">Template:Cite web</ref> by Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes, which made her the biggest selling Brazilian recording artist since Carmen Miranda. Her second album, Dois na Bossa with Jair Rodrigues, set a national sales record and became the first Brazilian album to sell over one million copies. "Arrastão" increased her popularity because the festival was broadcast via TV and radio. The record represented the beginning of música popular brasileira (Brazilian popular music) and contrasted with bossa nova. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she helped popularize tropicalismo with Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, and Caetano Veloso. In 1970 she had her first son with first husband Ronaldo Bôscoli. Later on she had two more children with musician Cesar Camargo Mariano.

Regina was nicknamed "hurricane" and "little pepper".<ref name="Dougan" /> She moved to Rio around the time Brazil was ruled by a military group.<ref name="Dougan" /> Although her popularity protected her from reprisal when she criticized the regime while on tour in Europe, she was threatened with imprisonment unless she sang the Brazilian national anthem at an event honoring the anniversary of the coup.<ref name="Dougan" /> In the 1970s she recorded the album Elis and Tom in Los Angeles with Antonio Carlos Jobim.<ref name="Dougan" /> In 1982 she was starting her third marriage when she died from a combination of alcohol and cocaine at the age of thirty-six.<ref name="Dougan" />

Death

On January 19, 1982, Regina died at the age of 36, from cardiac arrest, after consuming vermouth, cocaine and tranquilizers. More than 15,000 fans attended a musical wake in the Teatro Bandeirantes in São Paulo. She was buried in Cemitério do Morumbi.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Legacy

On August 18, 1997 Regina was posthumously awarded with the rank of the Order of Prince Henry of Portugal.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2005, a memorial space was opened at the Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana in Porto Alegre, Brazil to house the Elis Regina Collection.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> The space exhibits audiovisuals, CDs, articles and other media materials and documents about the life and work of Regina.<ref name=":0" />

Regina was portrayed by Andréia Horta in the 2016 movie "Elis" directed by Hugo Prata.<ref name="directed">Template:Cite web</ref>

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album
1961	Viva a Brotolândia
1962	Poema de Amor
1963	Ellis Regina
1963	O Bem do Amor
1965	Samba - Eu Canto Assim
1966	Elis
1969	Elis - Como e Porque
1969	Elis & Toots
1970	Em Pleno Verão
1971	Ela
1972	Elis
1973	Elis
1974	Elis & Tom (with Antônio Carlos Jobim)
1974	Elis
1976	Falso Brilhante
1977	Elis
1979	Essa Mulher
1980	Saudade do Brasil
1980	Elis

Live albums

In life

Year	Album
1965	Dois na Bossa (with Jair Rodrigues)
1965	O Fino do Fino (with Zimbo Trio)
1966	Dois na Bossa nº 2 (with Jair Rodrigues)
1967	Dois na Bossa nº 3 (with Jair Rodrigues)
1970	Elis no Teatro da Praia
1978	Transversal do Tempo

Posthumous

Year	Album
1982	Montreux Jazz Festival
1982	Trem Azul
1984	Luz das Estrelas
1995	Elis ao Vivo
1998	Elis Vive
2012	Um Dia

Compilation albums

Posthumous

Year	Album
2001	Sucessos Inesquecíveis de Elis Regina

Further reading

• Arashiro, Osny. Elis Regina por ela mesma. M. Claret, 1995.
• Echeverria, Regina (1985) Furacão Elis. Inclui cronologia e discografia por Maria Luiza Kfouri. Rio de Janeiro: Nórdica / Círculo do Livro. 363p. 2.ed. rev. ampl. 1994 (São Paulo: Ed. Globo); 3.ed. 2002 (São Paulo: Ed. Globo). 239p. Template:ISBN
• Goés, Ludenbergue. Mulher brasileira em primeiro lugar: o exemplo e as lições de vida de 130 brasileiras consagradas no exterior. Ediouro Publicações, 2007. Template:ISBN
• Kiechaloski, Zeca (1984) Elis Regina. Col. Esses Gaúchos. Porto Alegre: Tchê! 101p.
• Pugialli, Ricardo. Almanaque da Jovem guarda: nos embalos de uma década cheia de brasa, mora?. Ediouro Publicações, 2006. Template:ISBN
• Sarsano, José Roberto. (2005) Boulevard des Capucines. Teatro Olympia, Paris 1968: Elis Regina e Bossa Jazz Trio em uma época de ouro da MPB. Ed. Árvore da Terra. 207p. Template:ISBN
• Silva, Walter. Vou te contar: histórias de música popular brasileira. Conex, 2002. Template:ISBN
• Elis Regina Por Ela Mesma. (1995) Org. Osny Arashiro. São Paulo: Martin Claret. 2.ed. rev. 2004. 229p. Template:ISBN
• O Melhor de Elis Regina. (2003) Melodias cifradas com as letras de 28 músicas do repertório de Elis Regina. Ed. Irmãos Vitale. 112p. Template:ISBN

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