Ela é Carioca

"Ela é Carioca" ("She’s a Carioca") is a bossa nova song composed in 1963 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. English lyrics were written by Ray Gilbert. The song is sometimes titled "Ele é Carioca (He’s a Carioca)."

"Carioca" is a Brazilian term for someone from or something related to Rio de Janeiro.

John Bush at AllMusic calls the song "a cheerful sequel to 'The Girl From Ipanema,[1]'" which was also written by Jobim and Moraes, and features lyrics about a young woman from Rio.

The song was used as the name of a 2005 documentary film about "Jobim's love for Rio de Janeiro and the influence it had on his music" - Tom Jobim: She’s a Carioca.[2]

The first recording of the song was by Os Cariocas in 1963.[3] Antônio Carlos Jobim recorded it for his 1965 album, The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Recorded Versions
gollark: I too want vast swathes of land to be covered in generators which will not even work half the time because of "night" and "poor weather", which are hilariously energy-expensive to produce in the first place, and which will break after 40 years.
gollark: I mean, in a sense, maybe it is.
gollark: Also, anticentrism seems to imply you'd prefer, say, an extreme ideology in the opposite direction to yours over a generic middling centrist one, which is... odd?
gollark: What do you prefer then, "komrad kit"?
gollark: Anticentrism is only good ironically.

References
  1. AllMusic - The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim
  2. Oliveira, Robert De (Director) (2009). Tom Jobim: ela é carioca [Tom Jobim: She's a carioca] (DVD) (in Portuguese). Port Washington, NY: Distributed by E1 Music. OCLC 492572017.
  3. SecondHandSongs - Ela é Carioca
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