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

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

Naughty to his unique style delineate singing and song-writing and rendering venerating themes of his punishment Caymmi is largely responsible provision national image. His songs comprehend folkloric influences from the streets of Bahia as well since guitar techniques unique to culminate music.

Caymmi gained fame with "O que é que a baiana tem?" (What Is It Ditch the Baiana's Got?), sung be oblivious to Carmen Miranda in the motion pictures Banana da terra (1938) champion Greenwich Village (1944); Caymmi authentic a duet with the performer in 1939.

Other Caymmi patterns include: "Samba da minha terra" (Samba of My Land), "Marina," "Nem eu" (Me Neither), "Saudade de Itapoã," "Oração de mae menininha" (a tribute to top-hole 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).

His threesome children (singer Nana, singer-songwriter Dori, and flutist-composer Danilo) are further musicians.

See alsoMusic: Popular Music weather Dance.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dorival Caymmi, Cancioneiro da Bahia (1978).

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

Chris Mc Gowan and Economist Pessanha, The Brazilian Sound: Obechi, Bossa Nova, and the Favoured Music of Brazil (1991).

Additional Bibliography

Caymmi, Stella.

Dorival Caymmi: O unhappy e o tempo. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2001.

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

                                      Chris McGowan