"I met Gilberto Gil in 1966" "Maybe end of 1965" "He was introduced to me, I mean, not him" "A tape of his songs, recorded on them." "I got it from Edu, Edu Lobo." "It was a tape with songs by him, Caetano, and also Bethania" "Of Gal (costa) who still was Maria da Graça then." "And Edu liked it a lot" "I have the impression that Edu was introduced to them by Torquato Neto." "who also belonged to the group and wrote lyrics with them" "Edu said he liked the songs a lot" "And that I should sing them" "I really did like them" "And chose to sing "Louvação", "Reza" and a samba by Gil" "3 songs by Gil and 1 by Caetano" "Then Gil wanted to meet me" "I thought that was nice, he worked at"gecileve" then" "Selling things, soap, toothpaste, those things so necessary for the well being" "He went to my house, we talked, I always thought him to be very nice and beautiful" "A very beautiful mind" "Then we became friends" "Gil, maybe, out of all modern composers, the most complete" "Because he composes so well. writes lyrics so well and plays so well and he sings very well." "I think that Gil and Milton Nascimento, are the two composers... speaking in terms of getting the message across" "They are the two that can pass to people, a larger... how can I explain more whole, more compact in what they are thinking when composing their songs" "In my new album I recorded four songs by Gil, and could have recorded all 10 or 12 as well as could have recorded 12 songs by Joao or Aldir" "because they were the composers that had more songs available not because they composed with more ease but because everyone was recording their albums" "So it's fair that they wanted to keep their songs for their albums" "One of the problems of having in the competition, your own composers" ""Ladeira da Preguiça" Gil wrote for me" "I phoned him and asked him to write a song for me" "He made this one, and of course, I liked it a lot." "I was born in Porto Alegre in 1945" "On a sunday, 17th march, 14:10 in the afternoon" "Spoiling my mother's coffee break." "I was the first daughter of a couple who was together for 2 years" "First granddaughter, first niece of a family of 7 people who loved each other very much and decided to adopt me... as the daughter of all." "I thought all that very nice, very pleasant especially my father's early commercial vision" "because he looked at me and must have thought... this girl when she grows up, she will be a singer... therefore, a great singer name is Elis regina" "It's funny, I was going to be called only "Elis"" "He went to register my name, and said "here's my daughter"" ""What's her name?"" ""Elis" he said" ""There is a problem there mister, that name is suitable for both men and women" ""so we need a way to differentiate that..." ""or it will bring troubles for her later in life"" "Then he must have thought "Se will be a singer" and Regina will look good, right next to Elis" "Then he named me Elis Regina Carvalho Costa." "I was a mediocre person all my life, just like every normal person" "Very shy, very different from my family, as strange as it may sound." "Very shy until one day I started singing" "My father is a very strange person" "If I tell you I still don't know who my father is you'll think I'm lying." "My father has a moustache, black hair descendant from indians" "His name is Romeo de Oliveira Costa" "His father was called Francisco and his mother Dalina" "And that's all I know about him." "And I know he likes me very much" "But I don't have many references about my father." "Because he is someone who practically doesn't speak" "He comes home, reads the paper..." "He is someone who, unfortunately, didn't participate much in my life" "My mother is more like me." "She is joyful, extrovert, funny, she swears." "She does what all mothers should do." "She is very dedicated to her children." "An amazing cook." "She also sews very well." "She is really an amazing person." "A very beautiful person." "She used to be a gorgeous person." "Today she is a lady with white hair." "Very white skin." "Truly a very beautiful person overall." "I think someone needs to come up with a complex, because dialectic isn't enough in this case" "They must come up with a new complex." "Fixation on the mother figure" "A name for such complex at least." "I used to listen to national radio from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed" "Just like every household in Brazil until well, until television came along, and messed up the radio transaction." "I listened to Francisco Alves..." ""Quando os ponteiros do relógio se encontram e dão as doze badaladas"" ""Boa noite amor"" "I listened To Marlene, Mirim, Serra de Alencar" "These things that everyone listened to." "I think that I must have liked "Boa noite amor" a lot since I ended up recording this song." "I must have liked it a lot." "It was something that marked me a lot" "Francisco Alves" "My house stopped." "Stopped." "Everyone would stop to listen at sunday, noon Francisco Alves." "When Alves died my father mourned for a week." "My mother cried so much, as if some family member had died." "I have the impression that for such things all these alterations that caused in my child's head the song fixated so much on me." "I started singing..." "I think that my great understanding had to be with music" "I was always requested at home for art classes" "Maybe because they thought I had the knack for singing" "I wanted to study piano." "That was the great thing in my life." "Until one day they enrolled me to study piano" "Then I studied piano, all that" "And had to go to music school." "The teacher said "that's all I can do", now you have to to music school." "And so I went, took the exam and passed." "And then they asked the tragic question" ""Do you have an instrument at home"" "No, I said." "Then no can do, you must have one since you need to study." "In choosing to have food or having a piano, they chose to the food." "Which I thought was great in the long term" "Having a piano and nothing else would be stupid." "But I had to do something you see" "There was too much sound inside my head that had to be released." "Then I decided to sing." "Attending my grandmother's request, for a birthday present which was to take part in "Guri's" Group." "The best present she could receive." "I mean when it was for me to deliver a present, fine" "I went there, I sang. "The genius of the family"." "Everyone gathered, there was a big lunch." "Then when I started to enjoy it and wanted to give myself a present." "Then they wanted to cut me off because I couldn't, etc." "But then there was no turning back." "It's just like people who start drinking and can't stop." "For me it's singing and lazying around." "My first recording...." "I was living in Porto Alegre and I received an invitation from "Continental" to sing" "Carlos Imperial was the one who produced my record." "Continental needed a singer to compete with Cely Campeiro." "Who was very successful in 'Odeon"." "But, I think that releasing someone to compete with someone else of very poor taste." "I didn't want to do it, you see." "Being in the shadow of whoever." "I wanted to be me, do my thing." "From this point, the repertoire." "Beautiful name isn't it - repertoire?" "Well it wasn't that marvelous, nothing that would blow you away." "It all became very awkward, but there was a contract, I had to do it." "You know how it is." "First song?" "I remember but I won't say... because you'll ask me to sing it and I won't sing it." "Then it'll be me against you." "I know and you don't." "I swear to god, in don't even remember the lyrics anymore." "I came to Rio long after that, I came in 1964." "Then I came here, to Rio, and my family stayed there." "I had to work at any cost to survive" "And I didn't have enough calmness to do things the way I thought they should have been done." "For the same reason that one day, I had to stop studying the piano." "I went to work at "TV Rio"." "Paulo Gracindo was the one who got me that job." "He heard me singing I don't know where, and thought it was great." "I got to places thought the most strange hands, who had little in common with me at the time." "So I went there, Bohn heard me in a "TV Rio" program in which he played with a band called "Sete de Ouros"." ""Sete de ouro" or "Sete de ouros", I don't know" "I know the name had something to do with cards." "He played drums in that band and he heard me." "I used to go to music school at the time It was me, Jorge, Simonal, Marli Tavares." "Edinho was the teacher and we were students." "So he heard me and invited me to sing with a band he was forming... with Salvador who was also arriving from Sao Paulo, from Rio Claro." "Gusmao, Odoum and me." "It was to be a kind of clone of his band." "Then things started to settle and I left "Beco", went to Sao Paulo participated in the Popular Music Festival." "I ended up in the "Fino da Bossa" TV program." "I ended up in television." "There are controversies." "Some people say it's "Menino das Aranhas", other that it's "Arrastao"." "But I have the impression that the first song I ever sang, that people thought I had something to say... was "Preciso aprender a ser só"." "It was in a concert in "Little Club"." "With Marly Tavares, Gaguinho, Bossa Três and myself." "When did I sing this?" "I think it was in '64." "I made an album at Philips you see." "It was the first label that believed in the same things as me." "They invited me to record the album and I did it with songs I liked." "But I think the guys here don't know how to play it." "But it think it wasn't necessary right?" "Because "Arrastão" was so fixated on people's minds... that you don't need to remind them." ""Opa Neguinho" was in 64'." "No." "End of '65." "There's a funny story about "Opa Neguinho"." "Zimbo Trio went to make a concert in Belem do Para or something like that... and didn't arrive on time, ended up in the city of Campinas and couldn't do the concert." "Then they asked "Som três" to do the concert." "We didn't speak at the time right?" "They were from the other group, you see?" "Their group was different, it wasn't mine." "Then they arrived with that look on their face...you know." "That sour face." "I said "there's this new song I wanted to sing... could you do the arrangement for me?"." "And it was the first arrangement that César made for me." "Nobody knows, but the arrangement for "Panelinha" was by César"." "I reminded that to him not so long ago, and he was very embarrassed about it." "Not because of his arrangement, but because of his long face in doing it." "Edu Lobo was a person that had a definitive influence.... in my career and, consequently, in my life." "Because all my early stuff was made from material... that Edu handed for me to sing." "And, all of a sudden, one of these things that happens despite of our will." "We lost the contact we had." "We hardly see each other now." "And when we do, we usually don't speak with each other." "But I think that time is the best medicine for the problems that we have." "I'm certain that someday, Me, Edu and Wanda The children we have, and César... we will sit down and talk longly and finally sort it all out." "The first person with whom I sang in "TV Rio" was Cyro." "Cyro is one of those people that... try to show us what is the ideal human behavior." "Cyro was the best person that I ever met in my life." "I have a special consideration for Cyro." "And my nickname, he was the one that gave it me." "The nickname I have at home." "People call me Lilica, and Cyro used to call me that." "And I always liked him a lot." "I think I'll sing just a part, I won't be able to sing it entirely." "In that specific case I wasn't embarrassed." "It isn't embarrassed actually, it's distrustful." "Because nothing but goodness would come out of Cyro." "But things are so strange nowadays that we... we are distrustful to even say that we like some people." "So we make things up..." "We make up that we are shy and don't know how to express ourselves." "We make up that we are busy and that someday we'll have time to talk." "Then all of a sudden you realize that there's nothing more you can do" "It's late." "I mean, I don't think it's late, because I don't think that everything ends here." "This is just a passage." "We came here because we have to improve." "We came here for this, to spend some time... doing things, learning others so that later we can move on to something else." "And live a better life, because just this one doesn't make sense." "If this was it, then it wouldn't make sense." "But I believe it doesn't end here." "But anyhow it's very sad that people only learn how much we love them after they are gone." "With Augustinho it was like this." "I don't know if you understood me." "Maybe I wasn't clear." "I know that he's here you see." "Around, somewhere." "And that he must be in need of some good things" "It's the least that I can do." "Maybe praying would be a good thing, but..." "I think that singing his music, remembering him to people who forgot that he existed... and that he needed them, maybe that will make him feel better." "That's why I decided to sing his songs and will do so always." "From Baden there are many songs also..." "There was "Deixa", "Lapinha", "Canto de Osséia"..." ""Vou deitar e rolar", "Vidas navegantes", "Falei e disse"." "I like the kinds of lyrics that Paulinho Cesar wrote at that time for Baden." "You know, using the slang we normally use to speak but are afraid to put in poetry, because it isn't chic or well seen." "Paulinho Cesar believed that he should do this and did it as Baden asked him to." "I thought it was wonderful." "Do you want "Vou Deitar e Rolar"?" "You're not asking me but I'll say it anyway." "Talk about these three characters here." "We've been together for two years." "This fat and wonderful character here." "Who does not appear so, but is 24 years old." "Luisão is, basically and fundamentally, a good person." "An amazing thing to be found nowadays." "And, besides from what he is, there is the music he makes." "Which is, I have the impression, is the best of this country." "If his character wasn't enough, he has a music... that is as good and as fat as him." "And I hope that we stay together for many years." "Here, behind me, a character from "Minas Gerais" who came to rock the world." "He was born in a small city called Guarani that recently appeared on the map because he ended up becoming a famous drummer." "Became friends with Milton, all that stuff." "So the city has the honor of being on the map because Paulinho was born there." "Paulinho is son of "Orpheu", who is an amazing person, written with PH." "So I call him Mr. "Orpeu"." "Too bad for him" "I wasn't born in the old times when PH used to sound like an F." "Paulinho has an older brother called João, who looks just like him." "Paulinho is a very stressful person." "He has rapid heart rate and many fears... which we try to overcome." "Is married to Eloisa and has two children, Paulo Rogerio and Carla." "Who are blondes also." "I don't know how they can have blond children, they all being brown skinned." "Blond children, blue eyes." "Both of them very beautiful." "Of course, not as beautiful as Paulinho, but they try their best." "In terms of music, I mean, I already talked about him and no need to say I like him a lot." "I think that Paulinho is the best drummer there is." "If he wasn't, he would become the best since he is working with me, you see." "Now Cesar." "I've know Cesar for 7 years and we've been working together for 2." "When he stopped working with Simonal, we talked about forming a group, to play." "We worked some six months together, then... we'd already recorded a 7 inch with "Casa no Campo", "Nada Será Como Antes"." "The we did a concert and recorded a first album together." ""20 anos Blue"." "The music is by Sueli Costa and the lyrics by Vitor Martins." "I like this song." "Because... it has a lot in common with me." "The lyrics especially." "I also have more than 20 walls." "I also have more than 20 years of age." "Almost 30, actually." "And, that's it, it has a lot in common with me." "I know a lot of nice people." "Walter and Orfelia are very nice people." "My brother is very nice person." "Despite being my brother." "To me, nice people are those I can get along with, you see... that I can talk to, looking in the eye." "Without being so defensive." "But it seems that as each day passes, nice people are becoming more rare." "Maybe it's a matter of popularity" "They don't make people like they used to." "The problem with popularity people need... to be on the news, they need to be on the headlines." "They have to eat, to live somewhere, to have clothes." "But people maybe haven't noticed that... house, food and clothing aren't always the fundamental things." "Because when I was poorer I was much happier." "The "Fino da Bossa" TV show for me was everything." "Everything good and bad that could happen to someone's life." "Evidently, after some time... and I already told you that time is the best medicine... after some time, the positive balance was larger than the negative one." "But many quibbles were created due to the "Fino da Bossa" TV show." "At the same time that many people were happy because they could appear in the "Fino da Bossa" TV show." "Many were unhappy because they could not appear in the "Fino da Bossa" TV show." "And of course..." "The "Fino da Bossa" had as its leader an ill-tempered person... temperamental... and has the terrible flaw of saying everything he thinks." "That is, someone who wasn't born to live in society." "Along with this temper, this sincerity... many things true and untrue were said." "But I don't have the youth anymore to go explaining to everyone... that things aren't quite like this." "For me to explain that things aren't exactly like this..." "I would have to involve other people, and make accusations." "I prefer that other people choose the storms." "I met Chico Buarque in the most bizarre way possible." "Joao Evangelista Leao had a friend... not from college, but someone who made music." "He wanted me to sing his friends music." "He set up a meeting with me and his friend." "It was a Tuesday, three in the afternoon." "Someone knocked at my door, I opened it." ""Are you Joao's friend?"" ""Yes, I am"." " So you're Chico" " Yes I'm Chico" "Then he came in, sat down and just held his guitar like this." "And looking at me." "Such an uncomfortable situation... because he wouldn't say word." "He just looked at me and to his feet to me, to his feet." "He wouldn't do anything or say something." "After 15 minutes of that uncomfortable situation..." "I had to do something." "You're a friend of Joao, he told me you had some songs that you would make me a tape so I could choose some." "He said "yeah"." "So I let the tape rolling, he had recorded some 10 songs." "But he had that long face, a sour look." "I thought he was hating me." "That he had nothing in common with me." "Then I told Joao "Look, I'm not going to sing those songs by your friend... because I think he didn't like me"." "He said "No, he's like that, he doesn't speak much"." "But I said, "Look, I think there's something wrong here.." "it's not possible to spend two hours with someone and not say a word."" "I think he's not really interested." "Then I lost the opportunity to release 12 songs by Chico Buarque and Nara Clara ended up recording before me." "It's a pain... too big for the world." "I know him very well." "I know him from other times." "I don't know his complete name." "He said he was called Milton Nascimento and for me that's enough." "I know he was born in Três Corações." "I mean "Tres Pontas"." "Someone else was born in "Três Corações"." "Who, in matter of fact, has little in common." "Only thing in common was being born in Minas estate." "I met Milton here also." "Milton also didn't speak much." "Notice that my relationship with people who don't speak much... goes back to my father." "Milton didn't speak either." "Then I liked his songs" "I arranged for him to sing in the TV show." "In "Fino da Bossa"." "Then I got to know more of his songs." "And recorded one called "Canção do Sal"." "So I recorded "Canção do Sal" and called Milton over to hear it." "He wouldn't speak a word." "If it was good, bad, anything." "He wouldn't say a word." "I came to know that he liked the recording, exactly, one year ago." "That is, six years after I recorded it." "And to this day I thought...." "I mean, I am very afraid to record songs by Milton because.... you never know if he is liking it or not." "I mean, that's how I feel." "If he is liking it he won't say." "But if he doesn't like it... then he just disappears for a couple of months." "So I am not comfortable with recording his songs." "I'm at awe." "I'm very frightened of Milton." "I mean I like him, I respect him a lot.... but I fear his judgment." "Because he is one of those people who know exactly what they want." "And he really does know." "Not just knowing what he wants, because there are many people who know what they want... but act out completely differently." "But he really is amazing." "Miles Davis already said so." "I like to sing anything by him." "There are people who say that Gil's songs have more in common with me." "That they seem as if made for me to sing." "Caetano Veloso says that." ""You're an interpreter of Gil"." "But affinity is an amazing thing." "I have affinity with Gil, but I have so much more with Milton." "I understand everything." "He doesn't even have to write the lyrics down... that I already understand what he meant to say." "I'm crazy about Milton." "I respect him enormously." "Maybe because of this I am so afraid of not pleasing him." "I like to sing everything by him." "Let's sing "Canção do Sal"." "Another song by Milton that I like a lot.." "like the music and see myself in the lyrics, is "Cais"." "Carnival music is maybe... part of this nostalgia that we are feeling... or watching." "Maybe we miss those times when we were more complete... less worried, I don't know." "When we thought Carnival to be a wonderful thing." "Because I don't think it is anymore you see." "I mean, jumping and sweating for no reason..." "I don't think it's that much fun." "A admire greatly those people who can still have a good time in Carnival." "I lost my patience with it." "I tried to watch a parade of a Samba School but the discomfort was such that.... from that day on, I came to love television." "But one thing I find very beautiful in Carnival is that everyone sings together." "and become like a big brotherhood." "In a very positive chain of happiness and all." "Overall they are very happy." "So I admire Carnival because of this." "And there are some carnival songs that speak beautiful things." "Things that make sense." "For example, "Alô, alô, taí Carmen Miranda" tells the story of aunt Carmen a wonderful person." ""Nega Do Cabelo Duro"" "Overall they are very gentle things." "During Carnival this becomes lost." "All that jumping, that crowd, people sweating, too much whiskey, costumes and all that." "And we don't realize it, but there is always something very affectionate in carnival songs." "And very naive also." "Very pure, very kind." "Therefore I like to sing Carnival songs." "I mean, me and many other people." "Since everyone is recording carnival songs." "I like him." "A lot." "Pedro Caetano." "I like him tremendously." "There's a song I'm crazy for." "True passion for it." ""General da Banda"." "I think it's because it was the first song I learnt how to sing." "These things can't be forgotten." "They can't be kept only for carnival because the melodies are so beautiful... and the lyrics, sometimes, are also very pretty." "So we have to sing them." "Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim." "Is a really incredible person." "He's such an intelligent guy.." "someone who lived a lot, and yet, so young and open... to all these new things." "A very well informed person." "Even if I didn't like him I would have to say that he is a marvelous person." "Which isn't the case." "I met Tom around a year ago." "I mean personally, in terms of talking to him." "He went to my house to show me "Águas de Março"." "And Menescal came around before him and said" ""Look, Tom is coming over and has a new song that you will release"." "I mean, then it all became too much." "New song, me recording it, Tom Jobim, in my house." "I said "you open the door because I don't have the courage"." "I don't know what I am going to do." "He said "Don't be stupid"" "But I couldn't do it, I just sat down you know.." "with all 10 hands, 50 heads, 70 feet" "And he also is a very shy person." "He made jokes to break the ice and everything, I mean... to break that initial nervousness." "He left the music, sang it around 70 times." "With his little glasses to read the lyrics." "And would put me in the middle f the lyrics to sing." "And would say "this one is great, not even Sinatra got such a great song"." "He calls me "E"Lis" "And there's nothing I can do, he's going to call me that way." "And calls César by Mariano." "He is person of..." "I don't know, I can't explain." "So marvelous." "Because he could be that kind of guy who says" ""Indeed, I am the glory of brazilian music"." ""I'm a national patrimony and fuck the rest..."" ""because I'm high up here in my wisdom, and don't care about anything else"." "He has the conditions to do so if he was a fool or a vain person." "But he knows everything." "Everything." "He is capable of knowing who is 18º in the top music hits." "Because he reads newspapers, he's awake, he listens to the radio... because he listens to other's people's records." "But he likes to play the fool." "As if he was just arriving at that moment." "And you believe you're going to meet a guy who doesn't know you well and then he knows that your mother's name is Ercy and your father's Romeo." "Has the complete record." "And I like him a lot." "For me this record didn't come as a surprise." "Because I've been following myself for a year now." "I'm with myself from the time I wake up, to the time I go to bed." "Follow all my performances." "I know about my anxieties, etc." "So I was not surprised by my modification." "People see me sporadically... and maybe did not understand, the reason for such a different record, since that old formula was so good and selling so well." "There are two problems there." "I made a different record, so people were surprised by that." "I could have made an album like the others... then people would say that Elis is not the same anymore." "I mean, that kind of thing, Elis is not the same etc." "If you run the monster will catch you If you stay it will eat you." "So it's better not to worry about the monster... and be the most authentic as possible." "So people will not understand why Cesar, the pianist.... who always made light and digestible songs... all of a sudden decided to become so intellectualized." "And did not realize that the most intellectualized part of the album was the recording of "É Com Esse Que Eu Vou"." "Because it was a carnival samba, on which a whole work was done of harmony modification and other things." "So what people believed to be the most simple, on the contrary, was the most difficult." "But I knew this reaction would happen." "But I couldn't help but satisfy myself." "Since I lived many years satisfying other people." "So people will not understand the record, the songs." "Some people even say that there are songs there that don't deserve me." "I do become very honored with this, to think that I am at such height." "That a song could not deserve me." "Well I think that what I did was very little." "And if this frightened them I don't know what they will think from this point on." "Because, I have changed." "It wasn't my record that changed, it was my head." "It was my life that changed." "My nerves that relaxed." "My pillow which is much more comfortable." "My house which is nicer." "My life which is much better." "Tostao must have been very satisfied with these lyrics right?" "Ought to be very proud." "Nelson is always complaining." "He sounds like that animal "Oh day, oh life"." "But his little white head is very beautiful." "And he's done many beautiful things." "Especially this song." "It's called "Folhas Secas"." "Let's finish with it." "subtitles and timings by pcscarpa"