{"product_id":"dolores-duran-a-noite-e-as-cancoes-de-uma-mulher-fascinante","title":"Dolores Duran: The Night and Songs of a Fascinating Woman","description":"Brazil loves the romantic songs of Dolores Duran, but has always known very little about the artist, who died at age 29 from a heart attack in October 1959. Her recordings disappeared from the radio, but her few beautiful compositions never stopped being re-recorded. Now this gap is finally being filled with the release of the book \"Dolores Duran: The Night and Songs of a Fascinating Woman,\" published by journalist, producer, and music researcher Rodrigo Faour through Editora Record. The book is a comprehensive study. It included more than 70 interviewees, including those who knew the artist and her admirers, who helped immortalize her work to this day; hundreds of mentions of her name in the press, dating back to her emergence in the artistic world in 1942 as a child actress; and an incredible photographic panel that forms a 48-page illustrated libretto. Faour reveals that Dolores Duran (1930-1959) was a woman far ahead of her time and somewhat precocious. Due to a congenital heart condition, she knew her life would not be long, so she tried to live everything intensely – her career, her loves, her friends, the nightlife. Since she was a pre-teen, she frequented children's theater and talent shows. At 19, she debuted as a crooner at the chic Vogue nightclub in Copacabana and was hired by the legendary Rádio Nacional, where she remained until almost the end of her life. Over time, she gained prestige and the friendship of the greatest chroniclers and intellectuals of Rio's bohemian scene, becoming one of the group's favorites. She sat at tables, chatting on equal terms with Antonio Maria, Vinicius de Moraes, Fernando Lobo, Sérgio Porto, Mister Eco, Mário Lago, and many other chroniclers and composers – the same ones who delighted in hearing her sing in every nightclub of the time. And no wonder... Highly intelligent, despite having dropped out of school after fifth grade, she not only read about the greatest authors, poets, painters, and whatever else struck her fancy, but was also self-taught in languages, speaking, reading, writing, and singing perfectly, and was always asked to perform the international hits of those golden years. Armed with incredible good taste—she hated cheesiness—she interspersed this repertoire with the best of the Brazilian songbook of the time. Eclectic, she ranged from baião to marchinha, from bolero to chanson française, from salsa to fox. Although she was an excellent singer, she never achieved as much popularity as some of her contemporaries, such as Dalva de Oliveira, Angela Maria, or Maysa. Nevertheless, she helped promote the work of authors such as Billy Blanco (\"A banca do diferente,\" \"Praça Mauá,\" \"Pano legal\"), Chico Anysio (\"A fia de Chico Brito\"), and Antonio Maria \u0026amp; Ismael Netto (\"Canção da volta\"). The composer and lyricist, on the other hand, was acclaimed and celebrated from the outset. This book reveals firsthand that, despite her limited body of work, composed mostly in the last three years of her life, Dolores is the most recorded composer in Brazil to date, with around 850 different re-recordings of gems such as \"A Noite do Meu Bem,\" \"Castigo,\" and \"Solidão,\" as well as collaborations with pianist Ribamar (\"Ternura Antiga,\" \"Pela Rua\"), Carlos Lyra (\"O Negócio É Amar\"), and Tom Jobim (\"Por Causa de Você\" and \"Estrada do Sol\"). As if all this weren't enough, she was a fun, flirtatious, and fascinating woman, very different from the one immortalized in her poems and songs, which were generally sad and melancholic, albeit with slightly ironic nuances in some of them. She was also politicized (she joined and deserted communism – after a pioneering trip to Eastern Europe, during the Iron Curtain era), religious (from Umbanda to Catholicism), and was also a good seamstress, a great cook and a great joke teller, in addition, of course, to having been one of the frank precursors of the Bossa Nova movement that took off as soon as she was gone.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159476420860,"sku":"9788501400864","price":109.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/db58283bda9219bb98e1a889765a1442.jpg?v=1778321909","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/dolores-duran-a-noite-e-as-cancoes-de-uma-mulher-fascinante","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}