J’attendrai is a French adaptation of the 1936 Italian song “Tornerai.” Recorded by Rina Ketty in 1938, it became France’s defining song of the Second World War — a French counterpart to Vera Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again.” A...
Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar is one of the most recorded songs in Brazilian music — written by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, first recorded by singer Maysa in 1959, and voted the 24th greatest Brazilian song of all time by Rolling Stone Brasil. Born from the...
Paris Bossa Nova, Volume 1 is a five-chapter EP by French-American guitarist Ramsay Rawson, each track built on a real, documented piece of music history — from a 1930s Italian melody to a 1959 Cannes-winning film. Together, the five songs trace nearly a century of...
Black Orpheus is the 1959 French-Italian-Brazilian film that introduced the world to bossa nova. Directed by Claude Lelouch’s contemporary Marcel Camus, based on Vinicius de Moraes’s 1956 play “Orfeu da Conceição,” it won the Palme d’Or...
Le Rendez-vous began life as a Brazilian ballad, became an Italian chart hit, and crossed into French as a forgotten B-side. Written by Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos, released in Brazil in 1969 as “Sentado à Beira do Caminho,” the song has lived at...
Samba Saravah is the French adaptation of Samba da Bênção, written in 1963 by Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell. Pierre Barouh wrote the French lyrics in Rio in 1965, at Moraes’ own urging. The song became a landmark of French cinema a year later, in Claude...
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