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BLP sources|date=November 2010Infobox musical artist | name = Maria Bethânia| image = Maria Bethania 1972 (Heinrich Klaffs Collection 33).jpg| caption = Bethania, performing in Hamburg, 1972| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso| birth_date = Birth date and age|1946|06|18|df=y|birth_place = Santo Amaro, Bahia|Santo Amaro da Purificação Bahia , Brazil | death_date =| genre = Bossa nova Música Popular Brasileira Samba | occupation = Musician | instrument = Singing|Vocalist | years_active = 1960s& ndash;present| label = RCA Records Wrasse Records (Europe)| associated_acts = Gilberto Gil Caetano Veloso Nara Leão | website = http://www.mariabethania.com.br/ Maria Bethânia.com.br/ Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso (born 18 June 1946 in Santo Amaro, Bahia|Santo Amaro da Purificação , Bahia Brazil ), better known as Maria Bethânia (IPA-pt|ma'?i? be't?~ni?), is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso . She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião" ("Opinion"). Due to its popularity, and the popularity of her 1965 single "Carcará", the singer became a star in Brazil, with performances all over the country. She has released over 30 albums to date.
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In her childhood, Bethânia had aspirations to become an actress . However, her mother was a musician, so music was prevalent in the Veloso household.cite web |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p3215|pure_url=yes |title=Biography |accessdate=2008-03-28 |last=Neder |first=Alvaro |work= Allmusic |publisher= All Media Guide Though Bethânia was born in Santo Amaro da Purifição, her family moved to Salvador, Bahia when she was 13 years old. The move allowed her to experience the bohemianism|bohemian , intellectual circles of the city as well as to visit theaters. When she was 16, her brother Caetano Veloso invited her to sing in a film for which he was producing the soundtrack , but she refused. However, the film's director, Álvaro Guimarães, liked her voice and invited the young musician to perform in a 1963 performance of a Nélson Rodrigues musical. She began performing again with her brother, as well as Gilberto Gil , Gal Costa , and Tom Zé , at the opening of the Vila Velha Theater in the next year. During one of these performances, the bossa nova musician Nara Leão offered her an opportunity to take her place in a series of performances titled "Opinião".cite web |url= http://cliquemusic.uol.com.br/en/Artists/Artists.asp? Status=ARTISTA& Nu_Artista=379 |title=Maria Bethânia |accessdate=2008-03-28 |work=AllBrazilianMusic |publisher=CliqueMusic Editora She released her first single, a protest song named "Carcará", in 1965, the same year as her brother released his first recording.cite web |url= http://maria_bethania.mondomix.com/fr/portrait218.htm |title=Maria Bethânia |accessdate=2008-03-28 |last=MiNiMuM |first=Benjamin |work=Mondomix |language=French
After releasing "Carcará" Bethânia returned from Rio de Janeiro , where she had gone to attend college, to Bahia. This was to only be a brief visit, as around that time she was performing at nightclubs and other venues throughout Brazil. This song also got her an offer from an RCA Records representative to record for the company. However Bethânia continually changed record labels throughout the 1970s. In 1973 Bethânia released Drama, Luz Da Noite , in which she performed traditional Brazilian songs, as well as incorporating literary elements.cite web |url= http://musicabrasileira.org/mariabethania/1996ambar.html |title=Maria Bethânia: Âmbar |accessdate=2008-03-29 |last=Leitão |first=Egídio |year=1997 |month=March |work=Luna Kafé In 1977 Bethânia went on tour and released a gold-certified album, both with the name of Pássaro da Manhã . She released Álibi a year later which was also gold-certified with over a million copies sold. Around the end of the 1970s, Bethânia became more artistically conservative, moving away from the Tropicalismo music her frequent collaborators, including Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil , had been playing. During the 1980s and '90s Bethânia continued to record and perform, with 1993's As Canções Que Você Fez Para Mim becoming the year's most successful album in Brazil.
In 2005, Música Popular Brasileira Supergroup (music)|supergroup of the same name. It was recorded June 24 of that year at Anhembi Stadium in São Paulo.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p527354|pure_url=yes Allmusic history Its members were Gilberto Gil , Caetano Veloso , Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, four of the biggest names in the history of the Music of Brazil . The band was the subject of a 1977 documentary directed by Jom Tob Azulay . In 1994, they performed a tribute concert to Mangueira school of samba .Allmusic|class=artist|id=p527354|pure_url=yes Allmusic
French filmmaker Georges Gachot completed a documentary film " http://www.musicaeperfume.com Musica é perfume" about her which was worldwide distributed. In 2008 she recorded an album with the Cuban singer Omara Portuondo which was followed by a Live DVD
Maria Bethania in 2011 received permission from the Ministry of Culture of Brazil to make a poetry blog budgeted for $ 1.3 million Reais . http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/tag/maria-bethania/
2006: Outros Doces Barbaros feat. Gal Costa,Caetano Veloso (DVD)
2005: http://www.musicaeperfume.com "Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume" by http://www.gachotfilms.com Georges Gachot
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http://www.mariabethania.com.br/ Official site.Registration requiredpt
Persondata|NAME=Veloso, Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles |ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Bethânia, Maria |SHORT DESCRIPTION=Singer |DATE OF BIRTH=June 18, 1946 |PLACE OF BIRTH= Santo Amaro, Bahia|Santo Amaro da Purificação , Bahia , Brazil |DATE OF DEATH= |PLACE OF DEATH= DEFAULTSORT:Bethania, Maria Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Brazilian contraltos Category:Brazilian female singers Category:Brazilian Roman Catholics Category:Portuguese-language singers Category:People from Bahia Category:Wrasse Records artists
