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

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Biography

Virginia Rodrigues was born on March 31, 1964. She had 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 (1997) 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".^{[citation needed]} The album also received good reviews in Le Monde and the magazine Rolling Stone.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

Her third album, Mares Profundos, was released in January 2004 on the 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.^{[citation needed]}

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	Drums and Gods	A Tristeza
2003	Gregório de Mattos	Cantora de Rua		Biographical Film.
2007	Ó Paí, Ó	Bioncetão
2014	O Casamento de Gorete	Como Raimunda		[4]
2019	Mahira	Action thriller

References

External links

• Listen
• Virginia Rodrigues Matrix Page
• Michael Church, "Virginia Rodrigues: The diva of the favelas", The Independent, 12 March 2004.

На других языках

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- [en] Virginia Rodrigues

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[es] Virginia Rodrigues

Virginia Rodrigues (Salvador de Bahía, 1964) es una cantante brasileña.[1][2] Sus primeras incursiones en la música fueron en Salvador de Bahía,[3] su pueblo nativo en el nordeste de Brasil; donde cantaba en coros de iglesias católicas y protestantes.

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