Virginia Rodrigues

Virginia Rodrigues (born Salvador, March 31, 1964) is a Brazilian singer.[1]

Biography

Virginia Rodrigues started her career by singing in both Catholic and Protestant church choirs. In 1997, she was invited by the director Márcio Meirelles to attend Pelô Bye Bye. There she was discovered by Caetano Veloso.

The first album Sol Negro was produced by Celso Fonseca and had arrangements by Eduardo Souto Neto. It was released on the Rykodisc label and was well received in the United States and Europe. The Times of London described Rodrigues as "... The new diva of Brazilian music". The album also received good reviews in Le Monde and the magazine Rolling Stone.

Rodrigues second album, Nós, features songs of Ile Aiye, Olodum, Timbalada, Ara Ketu and Afreketê and was also well received with reviews in The New York Times and All Music Guide.

Her third album, Mares Profundos, was released in January 2004 on German label Deutsche Grammophon and features 11 African-sambas composed between 1962 and 1966 by guitarist Baden Powell (1937–2000) and the poet Vinicius de Moraes (1913–1980). The program closes with samba 'Lapinha' (Baden-Paulo Cesar Pinheiro).

Her fourth album, Recomeço, was released in 2008 and features poetry by Chico Buarque.

Rodrigues regularly appears at festivals of jazz and world music throughout the world, participating in several world tours. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton once said that she was the singer who he liked best in the world and mentioned her in his memoir "My Life."

Discography

Albums

Sol Negro (1997)
Nós (2000)
Mares Profundos (2004)
Recomeço (2008)
Mama Kalunga (2015)
Cada Voz E Uma Mulher (2019)

Contributing artist

Unwired: Latin America (2001, World Music Network)

Filmography

Key
	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Language	Note
1996	Tieta of Agreste	Cantora	Brazil Film	[2][3]
2001	Tambores y Dioses	la tristeza
2002	Trommler und Götter	Tristeza
2003	Gregório de Mattos	Cantora de Rua		Biographical Film.
2007	Ó Paí, Ó	Bioncetão
2014	O Casamento de Gorete	Como Raimunda		[4]
2018	The Notion	Doctor Geetha	English	Short Film [5]
2019	Mahira	Maya	Indian Kannada Film	[6][7]

References

Guzman, Isaac (March 30, 2001). "Two From Brazil's New Wave - New York Daily News". Daily News. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
"Tieta of Agreste". NY Times. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
Philip Galinsky (16 December 2013). Maracatu Atomico: Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in the Mangue Movement and the "New Music Scene" of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Taylor & Francis. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-136-71728-4.
"O Casamento de Gorete".
"The Notion (2018)". IMDB. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
"'Mahira' review: A well-crafted novel attempt at women-centric cinema". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
Angadi, Jagadish (2019-07-26). "Mahira: a near-perfect action thriller". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 2019-08-17.

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[1] Guzman, Isaac (March 30, 2001). "Two From Brazil's New Wave - New York Daily News". Daily News. Retrieved 17 September 2011.

[NY_Times-2] "Tieta of Agreste". NY Times. Retrieved 7 October 2015.

[Galinsky2013-3] Philip Galinsky (16 December 2013). Maracatu Atomico: Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in the Mangue Movement and the "New Music Scene" of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Taylor & Francis. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-136-71728-4.

[4] "O Casamento de Gorete".

[5] "The Notion (2018)". IMDB. Retrieved 17 May 2020.

[6] "'Mahira' review: A well-crafted novel attempt at women-centric cinema". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2019-08-17.

[7] Angadi, Jagadish (2019-07-26). "Mahira: a near-perfect action thriller". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 2019-08-17.