"Brasil" is a pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

-rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 song written and performed by Cazuza

Cazuza

Agenor Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza was a Brazilian composer and singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music....

, recorded as the sixth track in his third solo album Ideologia

Ideologia (Cazuza's album)

Ideologia is a 1988 album recorded by Cazuza, the third in his solo career. It won the Prêmio Sharp for best album in 1988 and sold more than 150,000 copies....

(1988). The most well-known version of this song was recorded as a samba

Samba

Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...

 by Gal Costa

Gal Costa

Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...

 on the soundtrack album of the telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 Vale Tudo (1988).

Song information

The lyrics of "Brasil" were composed by Cazuza and Nilo Romero, and the music by George Israel

George Israel

George M. Israel, III is the current president and CEO of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and is a former mayor of Macon, Georgia , the sixth largest city in the state. He is also on the board of directors of YKK Group...

 (saxophone

Saxophone

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 player of Kid Abelha

Kid Abelha

Kid Abelha is a rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed by Paula Toller , George Israel and Bruno Fortunato . The group has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 live albums and 2 live DVDs. They have created many songs which have entered into Brazilian pop-rock history...

). The song expresses an anti-nationalist feeling and a pessimist view on the Brazilian lifestyle and "way to handle things" (the famous "jeitinho brasileiro"). Although the song was featured on the soundtrack of Vale Tudo, a Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

 telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

, it criticized the popular fascination with the network's newsmagazine

Newsmagazine

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 program Fantástico

Fantástico

Fantástico is a Brazilian weekly television newsmagazine broadcast on Sundays by Rede Globo.-Format:The show's first episode was on August 5, 1973 in black-and-white. It began as a variety show featuring music, dance numbers, teletheater, humor, mixed with a small amount of news. The following...

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Lyrics

Original Lyric in portuguese	Translate
Não me convidaram	They didn't invited me
Pra esta festa pobre	To this poor party
Que os homens armaram	Wich men armed
Pra me convencer	To convince me c
A pagar sem ver	To pay without seeing
Toda essa droga	All this shit
Que já vem malhada	That already comes spot
Antes de eu nascer...	Before I was born...
Não me ofereceram	They didn't even offered me
Nem um cigarro	Even a cigarret
Fiquei na porta	I stayed in the door
Estacionando os carros	Parking the cars
Não me elegeram	They didn't elected me
Chefe de nada	Boss of nothing
O meu cartão de crédito	My credit card
É uma navalha...	Is a razor...
Brasil!	Brazil!
Mostra tua cara	Show your face
Quero ver quem paga	I wanna see who is denied
Pra gente ficar assim	To we stay like this
Brasil!	Brazil!
Qual é o teu negócio?	What's your business?
O nome do teu sócio?	Your boss' name?
Confia em mim...	Trust me...
Não me sortearam	They didn't raffled me
A garota do Fantástico	Fantástico's girl
Não me subornaram	They dind't bribed me
Será que é o meu fim?	Is this my end?
Ver TV a cores	To watch TV in colors
Na taba de um índio	On an indian's table
Programada	Programed
Prá só dizer "sim, sim"	To just say `yes, yes´
Grande pátria	Great motherland
Desimportante	Unimportant
Em nenhum instante	At no time
Eu vou te trair	I'll double-cross you
Não, não vou te trair...	No, I won't double-cross you...

Versions

• Cazuza
  Cazuza
  Agenor Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza was a Brazilian composer and singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music....
  
   in the album Ideologia
  Ideologia (Cazuza's album)
  Ideologia is a 1988 album recorded by Cazuza, the third in his solo career. It won the Prêmio Sharp for best album in 1988 and sold more than 150,000 copies....
  
  (1988)
• Gal Costa
  Gal Costa
  Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...
  
   in Vale Tudo soundtrack (1988)
• Deborah Blando
  Deborah Blando
  Deborah Salvatrice Blando is an Italian-Brazilian singer and composer. She has about 5 million copies sold worldwide, with six albums released between 1991 and 2002...
  
   in the album A Different Story (Special Edition) (1993) - (recorded in a medley with Aquarela do Brasil
  Aquarela do Brasil
  "Aquarela do Brasil" , known in the English-speaking world simply as "Brazil", is one of the most famous Brazilian songs of all time, written by Ary Barroso in 1939.-Background and composition:...
  
  )
• Kid Abelha
  Kid Abelha
  Kid Abelha is a rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed by Paula Toller , George Israel and Bruno Fortunato . The group has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 live albums and 2 live DVDs. They have created many songs which have entered into Brazilian pop-rock history...
  
   in the live album MTV Unplugged (2002)

Awards

"Brasil" received two Sharp Awards in 1988. Gal Costa won a special award for Best Song of the Year, while Cazuza won in the category for Best Pop/Rock Song of the Year.

External links

• "Brasil" lyrics at Terra.