Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Calling all music lovers, songwriters, performers, and cariocas (real and vicarious)

Here's one for you.

Sexo Puro: A Life in Brazilian Song takes readers and listeners on a tour of modern Brazilian music, from artist-composer Suely Mesquita's colorful childhood in '70s Rio to her work today as a sought-after songwriter and vocalist.

Mellifluous soprano and tireless collaborator Mesquita turns out hundreds of seductive songs while also performing and coaxing the next generation to the microphone.

Because music is Brazilians' best-known export and proudest resource, Sexo Puro comes with 19 tunes spanning Mesquita's career. She also provides a songwriting primer telling how it's done.

"Suely Mesquita offers serious music for us to enjoy, for the world to discover." —Kees Schoof, www.musicabrasileira.org

"Suely Mesquita's exquisite lines, wild journeys, and delicious recipes continue to fascinate me."
—ZĂ©lia Duncan

"Suely Mesquita is a full-time artist's artist whose creativity gives her no rest." —Zeca Baleiro

"I love her swing and intelligent, humorous take on the human condition. Any subject or daily scene, collective or personal, gains a new shading with her chords and verses. Her voice makes us dance while telling us such divine secrets." —Fernanda Abreu

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