A singer from Rio who turned family songs into gentle classics.
If you want to hear her at her most direct, try 'Deixa ficar.' For something a little more haunting, 'Bolero de Neblina' does it.
Her brother Dori Caymmi wrote 'Resposta ao Tempo' for her in 1972, and it became her signature. She recorded it again live in 1996, and it's still the song people know. That track, along with 'Deixa ficar' and 'Medo de Amar,' shows how she could take a melody and just let it breathe.
She started in the mid-1960s with her first album 'Cana Caymmi.' By the early 1970s she was putting out records like 'Nana' and 'Roda Viva,' working with Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso. Later she returned to the stage with live albums in the 1990s and 2000s.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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