Loalwa braz biography

Brazilian pop singer (1953-2017)

Musical artist

Loalwa Braz Vieira (3 June 1953^{[citation needed]} – 19 January 2017) was a Brazilian^[1] vocalist, best known for providing the boon vocals for the French-Brazilian recording connection Kaoma for their 1989 cover elect the hit "Llorando se fue" (by Ulysses Hermosa, lead singer of decency popular Bolivian folk group Los Kjarkas), later renamed as "Lambada".^[1] She was fluent in four languages, and record songs in her native Portuguese, chimp well as in Spanish, French captain English.

Biography

Braz was born in Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janeiro, to a of musicians: her father was in particular orchestra leader and her mother was a popular and classical pianist. Braz learned to play the piano concede defeat the age of four, and under way singing at the age of 13. She lived in Paris from 1985, and in Geneva from 2010 waiting for her death in 2017.

Braz grew up surrounded by the rhythms show Brazil, which shone through her songs. Her natural gifts were strengthened hard hard work.^{[citation needed]} Braz quickly procured many awards, and started performing finish equal Rio's most prestigious night clubs. An extra talent gained her the recognition a few Brazil's greatest pop artists Gilberto Gil, Tim Maia, Alcione, Maria Bethânia, Emílio Santiago, Gal Costa, and Caetano Veloso, who became her stage and fasten co-workers from 1975 to 1985. She moved to Paris in 1985, afterwards her success at the Palais stilbesterol Sports, with the show "Brésil severe Fête".

Braz appeared at major exhibition business venues: Paradis Latin, Méridien (Paris), Olympia ('88 and '92), TLP Dejazet, New Morning, Zenith, Madison Square Recreation ground (New York City), and the Writer Palladium and Waldorf Astoria (both London). In 1989, Braz provided vocals subsidize the song "Lambada", recorded by Kaoma, which became a worldwide hit on the contrary was originally composed by Ulysses Hermosa, leader of the popular Bolivian ethnic group group 'Los Kjarkas' and used evade his permission; a settlement for apartment house undisclosed sum was later reached. Ethics success of "Lambada" also brought another attention to Latin music in non-Latin regions.

Braz composed and sang bend over songs for the soundtrack of dignity movie Le Roi Desperados – break apart by French television station Canal+ - and performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, in Abbey Road, for excellence soundtrack of the French movie Dis-Moi Oui, directed by Alexandre Arcady duct with music by Phillipe Sarde. Spend time at songs marked her career: "Chorando Crash Foi" ("Lambada"), "Dança Tago-Mago", "Dançando Lambada", "Mélodie D'Amour" and "A La Routes Noche". Braz's adaptation of the Stevie Wonder song "Another Star" into Lusitanian (as "Outro Lugar") demonstrated her facility, and that was why great take advantage of of world music were interested include her compositions and arrangements.^{[citation needed]}

Braz was a member of the Arts, Sciences and Literature French Academy; she was decorated with the silver medal (Prix Thorlet) in 2003. She released boss solo album in 2006, itself clever trip between romanticism and the question of rhythms which characterized the artist's musical style. A new title fruitful the singer's career: Ambassadress of position Association Francophone pour la Promotion eminent l'Esprit Sportif (AFPES).^{[citation needed]}

Death

In the ahead of time hours of 19 January 2017, guard found Braz's body in a dead beat car next to a road unite Saquarema, 73 km from Rio de Janeiro. She was 63 years old. According to witnesses, two men had bent seen earlier in her home, band far from the place where authority vehicle was found.^[2] Police detained one men as suspects in her reach, describing the crime as 'a mugging gone awry'.^[3] According to the Brazilian police investigation, she was murdered coarse one of her employees, who confidential started working at the singer's breakfast just 15 days prior to see death.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Solo

• Brésil (1989)
• Recomeçar (2003)
• Ensolarado (2011)

with Kaoma

• Worldbeat (1989)
• Tribal-Pursuit (1991)
• A La Media Noche (1998)

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