Adriana Calcanhotto
(born on October 3, 1965 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian singer/composer. Her melancholic songs are most often categorized as belonging to the MPB genre. She started her professional career in 1984 and released her first studio album in 1990.
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Career
Adriana's first album, called
Enguiço
, was released in 1990 and consisted mostly of covers of well known
MPB (Brazilian pop) songs, part of the repertoire she used to perform as a singer in restaurants and bars in
Porto Alegre. It included only one original composition, the title track. It spawned her first hit, a cover of
Caetano Veloso's
Naquela Estação
, which became successful thanks to it being included in the soundtrack of the
primetime soap Rainha da Sucata
, one of the most watched in history of Brazilian television.
1992 saw the release of "Senhas", which included the hits
Mentiras
and
Esquadros
and was followed by a successful national tour. In 1994, Adriana, sporting a new look (short black hair as opposed to the slightly longer bright blond haircut she'd had since the beginning of her career) released
A Fábrica do Poema
, considered by many to be her most poetic album. She collaborated with lyricists like
Wally Salomão and
Antonio Cicero (brother and constant musical partner of fellow singer
Marina Lima) and included the hits
Metade
and
Inverno
. This was followed by
Maritmo (a combination of the words
mar (sea) and
ritmo
(rhythm)), a
concept album intended as the first part of a trilogy having
water as a main theme.
At the turn of the millennium, Adriana experienced the peak of her career with the release of the album
Público
in 2000. Her first live album/dvd,
Público
was recorded in a
voz-e-violão
(voice and guitar) style, meaning there was no band, only the singer playing her acoustic guitar, an instrument which has followed her through her entire career. The album included a cover of the staple torch song
Devolva-me
, made famous by the duo
Lilian & Renato back in the 1960s. This album was followed by her first greatest hits compilation,
Perfil
(the success of this album prompted her record company to make it a series, releasing compilations of the same title by such artists as
Cassia Eller,
Zelia Duncan and
Djavan). Another album of new material wouldn't be released until 2002, when the singer released "Cantada". In the meantime, Adriana toured
Europe and
Japan (as she has done many times since).
After the release of that album, Adriana took on the persona of Adriana Partimpim, an alias the singer claims to have used as a child. Adriana Partimpim released her self-titled "debut" in 2004, an album of covers featuring essentially traditional
children's songs, but which also included familiar pop songs made to resemble children's songs. Examples of such songs are the covers of
Paula Toller's
Oito Anos
(a song Toller wrote for her own son, Gabriel) and
Claudinho & Bochecha's
Fico Assim Sem Você
, which became a hit on adult radios. A live cd/dvd combo of the show was also released the following year.
Her most recent album,
Maré
, was released in early 2008 and features a guest appearance by the singer's personal friend,
Marisa Monte as well as a cover of
Marina Lima's song
Três
. She toured Brazil to promote the record, as well as once again touring Europe, Japan and the
United States. Adriana has chronicled her adventures on tour in the book
Saga Lusa
(Portuguese Saga), in which she shares her memoirs of the Portuguese leg of her most recent tour. The book was released on October 28 in
Rio de Janeiro.
Discography
- Enguiço (1990)
- Senhas (1992)
- A Fábrica do Poema (1994)
- Maritmo (1998)
- Público (2000)
- Perfil (2001)
- Cantada (2002)
- Adriana Partimpim (2004)
- Maré (2008)