Insensatez nara leao biography

Who was Nara Leão?

Nara Lofego Leão was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPBsinger and occasional actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer of Bye Bye Brasil.

When she was twelve, her father gave her a guitarsince he was worriedabout her being shy. Popularmusician and composerPatricioTeixeira and classicalguitaristSolonAyala were her teachers. Whilestill a teenager, she met a number of singers and composers who took part in Bossa Nova's musicalrevolution in the late 1950s and early 1960s, includingRoberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes and Antônio Carlos Jobim. By 1963, aftersinging as an amateur for a few years, she became a professional and toured with Sérgio Mendes.

In the mid-1960s, the institution of militarydictatorship in Brazil led her to sing increasinglypolitical lyrics. Her show, Opinião, reflected her political beliefs, and she had largelyswitched to politicalmusic by this point. In 1964 she even spokeagainstbossa nova as a movement, calling it "alienating." In 1968 she appeared on the album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses, performing "Lindonéia."

Born

Jan 19, 1942
Vitória, Espírito Santo

Also known as

• Nara Leãu
• Nara Leao
• Nara Lofego Leão
• Nara Loffego Leão

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Lyrics to “Insensatez” (“Foolishness” or “Folly”), 1961

Music by Tom Jobim, Lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes

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Ah, foolishness

What have you done

Such a reckless heart

You made cry from pain

Your love

Such a delicate love

Ah, why were you

So weak that way

In such a soulless way

Ah, my heart

That never loved

Doesn’t deserve to be loved

Go on, my heart

Listen to reason

Use only sincerity

He who sows wind

So says reason

Always reaps storms

Go on, my heart

Plead forgiveness

Forgiveness, in love

Go on

Because he who doesn’t plead forgiveness

Is never forgiven

— Interpretation —

This bossa nova classic already has an English version – “How Insensitive,” with lyrics by Norman Gimbel– but the lyrics are very different from the original Portuguese.  Tom’s music recalls Chopin’s Prelude in E minor (op. 28, no. 4), which he recognized as an inspiration.

Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes met in 1956, when they worked together for the first time on the soundtrack for Vinicius’s play “Orfeu da Conceição.”  The pair went on to compose nearly 50 songs together, including some of the most iconic bossa nova songs like “Garota de