Nara Leao [Box set, Import]

Nara Leao | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 14
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Universal
• ASIN: B0000695L2
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,053,678 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Marcha Da Quarta-Feria De Cinzas

2. Diz Que Fui Por Ai

3. O Morro (Feio Nao E Bonito)

4. Cancao Da Terra

5. O Sol Nascera

6. Luz Negra

7. Berimbau

8. Vou Por Ai

9. Maria Bonita

10. Requiem Por Um Amor

11. Consolacao

12. Nana

13. Opiniao

14. Acender As Velas

15. Derradeira Primavera

16. Birimbau (Ritmo De Capoeira)

17. Sina De Caboclo

18. Deixa

19. Esse Mundo E Meu

20. Labardea

See all 207 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW. A bossa nova treasure trove!, July 4, 2002

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nara Leao (Audio CD)

Nara Leao, who passed away in 1989, was one of the greatest Brazilian singers of the bossa nova era. The early pioneers of bossa nova used to gather in her parents house to rehearse and to party; in the early '60s she became one of Brazil's biggest stars, lending her gorgeous, delicate voice to the early songs of Chico Buarque, Sidney Miller, and other up-and-coming songwriters. This amazing 15-CD box set collects her first fourteen albums (from 1964-1975), along with an additional CD's worth of rarities. (Each CD also includes a rare track or two, such as Nara singing in Spanish or French...) These album have been nearly impossible to find for decades, and their re-release is a wonderful blessing for fans of Leao and modern Brazilian pop. Great sound quality, handsome packging, and amazingly, thoroughly beautiful music.

The albums reissued include: "Nara" (1964), "Opinao De Lara" (1964), "O Show Do Opinao - Ao Vivo" (1965), "O Canto Livre De Nara" (1965), "5 Na Bossa" (with Edu Lobo/Tamba Trio, 1965), "Nara Pede Passagem" (1966), "Manha De Liberdade" (1966). "Vento De Maio" (1967), "Nara" (1967), "Nara Leao" (her so-called 'tropicalia album, from 1968), "Coisas Do Mundo" (1969), "10 Anos Depois" (gorgeous!! - from 1971), "Nara" (1971), "Meu Primeiro Amor" (1975), and the "Raridades" disc, which inlcudes some of the tracks from the 1972 show album, "Quando O Carnaval Chegar," made with Chico Buarque and Maria Bethania. Amazon should also have the track listings...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW. A bossa nova treasure trove!, July 4, 2002

By 

DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Nara Leao (Audio CD)

Nara Leao, who passed away in 1989, was one of the greatest Brazilian singers of the bossa nova era. The early pioneers of bossa nova used to gather in her parents house to rehearse and to party; in the early '60s she became one of Brazil's biggest stars, lending her gorgeous, delicate voice to the early songs of Chico Buarque, Sidney Miller, and other up-and-coming songwriters. This amazing 15-CD box set collects her first fourteen albums (from 1964-1975), along with an additional CD's worth of rarities. (Each CD also includes a rare track or two, such as Nara singing in Spanish or French...) These albums have been nearly impossible to find for decades, and their re-release is a wonderful blessing for fans of Leao and modern Brazilian pop. Great sound quality, handsome packging, and amazingly, thoroughly beautiful music.

The albums reissued include: "Nara" (1964), "Opinao De Lara" (1964), "O Show Do Opinao - Ao Vivo" (1965), "O Canto Livre De Nara" (1965), "5 Na Bossa" (with Edu Lobo/Tamba Trio, 1965), "Nara Pede Passagem" (1966), "Manha De Liberdade" (1966). "Vento De Maio" (1967), "Nara" (1967), "Nara Leao" (her so-called 'tropicalia album, from 1968), "Coisas Do Mundo" (1969), "10 Anos Depois" (gorgeous!! - from 1971), "Nara" (1971), "Meu Primeiro Amor" (1975), and the "Raridades" disc, which inlcudes some of the tracks from the 1972 show album, "Quando O Carnaval Chegar," made with Chico Buarque and Maria Bethania...

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true trendsetter, November 30, 2003

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"cmartins" (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nara Leao (Audio CD)

Although nicknamed "The Muse of Bossa Nova", Nara, in her recordings, was anything but: she wouldn't record her first bona fide Bossa Nova album until the 1971 two-LP set Dez Anos Depois (recorded while in self-exile in Paris). But she was much more. In her 1964 eponymous debut solo LP, Nara (re-)introduced middle class audiences to then-nearly-forgotten samba greats Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho and Ze Keti, and by and large spurred a samba "renaissance". That very same year, shortly after the military coup, she starred in the Opiniao show with Ze Keti and Joao do Vale, and gave voice to a whole generation who had been stilled by truculence. As if that alone weren't enough, throughout the Sixties Nara (together with Elis Regina) was the springboard for then-fledgling songwriters Chico Buarque, Sidney Miller, Paulinho da Viola, Edu Lobo, Gilberto Gil among others, while consistently delving time and again into the treasure trove of The Great Brazilian Songbook and keeping herself unfailingly open to the new yet wisely eschewing the mere novelty. This set is expensive, sure; but it's also a unique opportunity (and beautifully packaged, too) to get to know a true trendsetter, without whom Brazilian music would have been much poorer.