Elis [Import]

Elis Regina | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 22, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B00000G9EQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #444,014 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Roda

2. Samba Em Paz

3. Pra Dizer Adeus

4. Estatuinha

5. Veleiro

6. Boa Palavra

7. Lunik 9

8. Tem Mais Samba

9. Sonho De Maria

10. Tereza Sabe Sambar

11. Carinhoso

12. Cancao Do Sal

Editorial Reviews

CD > BRAZILIAN MUSIC > MPB - BRAZILIAN POPULAR MUSIC

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Elis Sees The Future, July 28, 2000

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Greg C (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elis (Audio CD)

This is a fantastic album. It's especially notable for the fact that in 1966, 21-year-old Elis Regina sought to use her already-considerable popularity and influence to popularize a bunch of then-unknown (in Brazil) songwriting talent on the order of Gilberto Gil, Edu Lobo, Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso and Chico Buarque--that's to say, almost the whole upper-crust of the great MPB generation. To look at the writing credits on this album, you'd think it was made in, say, 1973 instead of the mid-60s. And her voice already had that fiery edge and swing, although she was still quite young, and had yet to work out some of the subtleties of nuance and shading that would make her later work so captivating. Cut for cut though, this is still one of the most important albums of the 60s in Brazil, and yes, she IS better than Dusty Springfield....

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Samba at it's best!, August 9, 2005

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Sophie (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elis (Audio CD)

I had no idea what I was missing by not knowing anything about Elis Regina. I heard a song of hers on the Be Cool movie and scouted down the soudtrack to see who was singing that wonderful song. I looked high and low in convential music stores and could not find even a compilation album aside from Be Cool that I didn't have to special order. Because of Amazons wonderful selection and fast delivery I was able to get to know one of the best brazilian singers I have ever heard. This album is so wonderful it has stayed in the CD player since I bought it. Roda and Te my Samba are my favorites. If you love samba you will not be disappointed! I'm set to buy more of her albums very soon.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding vocals and the first Milton Nascimento, May 17, 2003

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Carlos from Rio "Carlos from Rio" (Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elis (Audio CD)

Three remarkable characteristics features Elis Regina as a singer: her master vocal, her smartness to choose the best musicians and arrangers, and her taste to choose songs and composers. This is her second studio album at Philips/Polygram Records. It was not so jazzy as the first one but the usual rule of covering new and very good composers was applied. She was the first major singer to record Milton Nascimento (Cancao do Sal in this album). Here you'll also find Lunik 9, inspired song-and-lyrics by Gilberto Gil. Also one of the best renditions of the traditional "Carinhoso". Very great!