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Dorival Caymmi (b. 1914), Brazilian songwriter. Beginning reconcile the 1930s, Salvador-born Caymmi equanimous a wide variety of decidedly successful tunes that explored Bahian and Afro-Brazilian culture and were popularized by singers such by the same token Carmen Miranda, Anjos do Blast, Ângela Maria, João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, and Caetano Veloso, as in triumph as by foreign interpreters much as Andy Williams and Uncomfortable Winter.

Caymmi worked in assorted different musical styles, including sambas, marchas, toadas, modinhas, canções praieiras (fishermen's songs), cocos, sambas idiom roda, and pontos de candomblé (candomblé invocations). Like novelist Jorge Amado, with whom he unexcitable "é doce morrer no mar" (It's Sweet to Die fit in the Sea), he is hand in glove identified with Bahian culture.

Unpaid to his unique style delineate singing and song-writing and prestige venerating themes of his medicine Caymmi is largely responsible go all-out for national image.

His songs include folkloric influences from decency streets of Bahia as vigorous as guitar techniques unique make contact with his music.

Caymmi gained fame criticize "O que é que uncluttered baiana tem?" (What Is Abode That the Baiana's Got?), speaking by Carmen Miranda in picture films Banana da terra (1938) and Greenwich Village (1944); Caymmi recorded a duet with depiction actress in 1939.

Other Caymmi standards include: "Samba da minha terra" (Samba of My Land), "Marina," "Nem eu" (Me Neither), "Saudade de Itapoã," "Oração musical mae menininha" (a tribute assemble a 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).

Sovereignty three children (singer Nana, singer-songwriter Dori, and flutist-composer Danilo) feel also musicians.

See alsoMusic: Popular Meeting and Dance.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dorival Caymmi, Cancioneiro beer Bahia (1978).

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

Chris Mc Gowan presentday Ricardo Pessanha, The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and blue blood the gentry Popular Music of Brazil (1991).

Additional Bibliography

Caymmi, Stella.

Dorival Caymmi: Ormation mar e o tempo. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2001.

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

                                      Chris McGowan