Quero Voltar pra Bahia
Paulo Diniz
- year
- 1970
- label
- Odeon
- from
- Pesqueira, PE
- genres
- bossa nova, pop, psychedelic, samba, mpb, singer-songwriter
THE BAND
Paulo Lira de Oliveira was born in Pesqueira (PE) in 1940 and began working as a radio announcer at an early age. In Recife, he worked as a shoeshiner, nightclub crooner and drummer, as well as a radio announcer and actor; after a period in Ceará, he arrived in Rio in 1964, where he took to the microphone at Rádio Tupi. He made his recording debut in 1966 on Copacabana with the iê-iê-iê, Brazilian beat music, O Chorão. Quero Voltar pra Bahia, a 1970 Odeon LP, featured the title track and Um Chope pra Distrair, both written with his partner Odibar; the main song paid tribute to Caetano Veloso, then exiled in London. He later set poems by Drummond and Manuel Bandeira to music. He died in Recife in 2022.
TRACKS
- Pirí Pirí
- Um Chope P'ra Distrair
- Ninfa Mulata
- Quero Voltar P'ra Bahia
- Felicidade
- Marginal III
- Chutando Pedra
- Chega
- Canseira
- Ponha Um Arco-Íris Na Sua Moringa
- Me Leva
- Sujeito Chato
