Elis Regina was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where she began her career as singer at age 11 on a children's radio show, Rádio Farroupilha. She won her first festival song contest in 1965 singing "Arrastão" -"The Trawling Net"-by Edu Lobo and VinÃcius de Moraes. She recorded songs by such musicians as Gilberto Gil. She also recorded songs by Antnio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Joao Bosco, Aldir Blanc, Chico Buarque, Jorge Benand Caetano Veloso. She had an exciting voice and superb intonation, and excelled at up-tempo numbers.
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Elis Regina
Os bias-frias
Quando tomam umas biritas
Espantando a tristeza
Sonham com bife a cavalo, batata-frita
E a sobremesa
goiabada casco,com muito queijo
Depois caf, cigarro e um beijo
De uma mulata chamada Leonor ou Dagmar...
Amar
O rdio de pilha, o fogo Jacar
A marmita, o domingo, o bar
Onde tantos iguais se renem contando mentiras
Pra poder suportar
Ai, so pais-de-santo, paus-de-arara,so passistas
So flagelados, so pingentes, balconistas
Palhaos,marcianos, anibais, lrios pirados
Danando, dormindo de olhos abertos
sombra da alegoria dos faras embalsamados