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Nora Ney
Nora Ney
	Nora Ney in 1961
Background information
Birth name	Iracema de Sousa Ferreira
Born	March 20, 1922; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died	October 2003 (aged 81); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genres	Samba-canção, Brazilian rock

Nora Ney (born Iracema de Sousa Ferreira, Rio de Janeiro, March 20, 1922 – Rio de Janeiro, October 2003) was a Brazilian singer. She is also the most notable^{[according to whom?]} singer of the samba-canção music style and a pioneer^{[according to whom?]} of the Brazilian rock.

Biography

Ney first approached music by playing guitar by herself. Her father, in order to motivate her, offered the instrument as a birthday gift.^{[citation needed]}

Along with Maysa Matarazzo, Ângela Maria and Dolores Duran, Ney is considered one of the greatest samba-canção singers who became popular in the 30s.^{[clarification needed]} Her music was often compared to bolero for the featured exaltation and exploration of romantic love or the suffering of an unrequited love affair was also called "elbow ache" (jealousy, heart ache).^{[clarification needed]} Samba-canção preceded bossa nova but came from American jazz and had more refined, gentle and soft melodies and interpretations, in detriment of those resented, melancholic ones.^{[clarification needed]} "Nina Ney was melodramatic and yet emotionally cool at the same time," noted musicologist Bryan McCann of her style.^[1]

She began her career in 1950 and in 1953 was already one of the greatest singers of the Brazilian Radio Era, interpreting Dorival Caymmi, Noel Rosa, Ary Barroso, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.^[2] In 1952 she recorded her first LP for the record label Continental Records, titled Menino da rua. Despite being a notable samba-canção interpreter, Nora Ney became one of the pioneers of the Brazilian rock by recording the first rock LP in the country: the Brazilian version of "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets (soundtrack of Sementes da Violência movie) in October 1955. After only one week, the song became a hit, and began a trend for Brazilian singers making covers of rock songs.^[3]^[4]

Ney's second marriage was to singer Jorge Goulart; their daughter, Vera Lúcia, became Miss Brazil in 1963. Ney was forced into exile after the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état due to Goulart's political involvement with the Communist Party of Brazil.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Menino grande/Quanto tempo faz (1952) Continental 78
Amor, meu grande amor/Ninguém me ama (1952) Continental 78
Luzes da ribalta/Felicidade (1953) Todamérica 78
De cigarro em cigarro/Onde anda você (1953) Continental 78
Índia/Preconceito (1953) Continental 78
Bar da noite/É tão gostoso seu moço (1953) Continental 78
Deixa-me (1953) Continental 78
Que saudade é esta/Canção de Portugal (1954) Continental 78
Que saudade é esta/Canção de Portugal (1954) Continental 78
Aves daninhas/O que foi que eu fiz (1954) Continental 78
Duas lacraias/Solidão (1954) Continental 78
Gosto, gosto de você/Não diga não (1955) Continental 78
Vou de tamanco/Se a saudade me apertar... (1955) Continental 78
Madrugada, três e cinco/Vamos falar de saudade (1955) Continental 78
Doce mãezinha/Ó meu papai (1955) Continental 78
O morro/Dois tristonhos (1955) Continental 78
Ronda das horas/Ciuminho grande (1955) Continental 78
Por que choras?/Meu lamento (1955) Continental 78
Quatro motivos/Sem ninguém (1955) Todamérica 78
Palavra de rei (1955) Todamérica 5593
Canta Nora Ney (1955) Continental LP
Eu ri de choar/Quando o amor vai embora (1956) Continental 78
Só louco/Não há mais segredo (1956) Continental 78
Rififi/Eu vivo tão só (1956) Continental 78
Se o negócio é sofrer/Não vou chorar (1957) Continental 78
Franqueza/Eu e Deus (1957) Continental 78
Saudade da Bahia/Chove lá fora (1957) Continental 78
São dois loucos/Eu sofro tanto (1957) Continental 78
Duas notas, nada mais/Quem é ela? (1958) Continental 78
Vai, mas vai mesmo/Castigo (1958) RCA Victor 78
Solidão/Pra falar com meus botões (1958) RCA Victor 78
Nora Ney (1958) RCA Victor LP
Sorria/Muito agradecida (1959) RCA Victor 78
Meu amor não me deixou/Canção do mal que faz bem (1959) RCA Victor 78
Razões/Duas almas (1959) RCA Victor 78
Você nasceu pro mal/Teleco teco nº 2 (1960) RCA Victor 78
Mentira/Saudade mentirosa (1960) RCA Victor 78
Ninguém me ama (1960) RCA Victor LP
Desencontro/Pra que voltar? (1961) Continental 78
João da Silva/E a vida continua... (1962) Mocambo 78
Mundo diferente/Hora final (1963) Mocambo 78
Mudando de conversa (1968) LP
Tire seu sorriso do caminho, que eu quero passar com a minha dor (1972) Som Livre LP
Jubileu de prata - Nora Ney e Jorge Goulart (1977) Som Livre LP
Meu cantar é tempestade de saudade (1987) 3M LP
As eternas cantoras do rádio (1991) CID CD
Nora Ney (1993) BMG CD
Mestres da MPB - Nora Ney (1994) CD
Acervo especial - Nora Ney (1994)
A música brasileira deste século por seus autores e intérpretes (2000) CD
Amor, meu grande

References

^ McCann, Bryan (2004-05-04). Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil. Duke University Press. pp. 200, 205. ISBN 978-0-8223-3273-2.
^ Jobim, Antonio Carlos (2011-02-24). Antonio Carlos Jobim for Classical Guitar. Mel Bay Publications. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-60974-637-7.
^ Treece, David (2013-07-15). Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap. Reaktion Books. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-78023-120-4.
^ Nichols, Elizabeth Gackstetter; Robbins, Timothy R. (2015-07-28). Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 1921. ISBN 979-8-216-13029-1.

[1] McCann, Bryan (2004-05-04). Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil. Duke University Press. pp. 200, 205. ISBN 978-0-8223-3273-2.

[2] Jobim, Antonio Carlos (2011-02-24). Antonio Carlos Jobim for Classical Guitar. Mel Bay Publications. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-60974-637-7.

[3] Treece, David (2013-07-15). Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap. Reaktion Books. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-78023-120-4.

[4] Nichols, Elizabeth Gackstetter; Robbins, Timothy R. (2015-07-28). Pop Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 1921. ISBN 979-8-216-13029-1.

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