Aracy de Almeida
She was probably the first singer who accepts in public her sexual orientation in the 1970´s. Since the 1930´s she was the interpreter of Noel Rosa.
Vange LeonelShe reached a great success in 1991 with the song Noite Preta which was the song of the soap opera Vamp. This lesbian writter composed Esse mundo that talks about a hope of unity among the gay community.
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Angela Ro Ro
In the mid 1970´s Angela Ro Ro was promoted by the media as a threat to the Brasilian families. These public scandals were related to her sexual orientation.
Laura FinochiaroAlong with Glauco Mattoso e Beto Firmino, she composed the anthem to diversity (Hino à diversidade), a beautiful song about the clebration of diference. She sang the song in the Gay Parade of Sao Paulo in 2000.
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Cassia EllerThe singer Cássia Eller never hid her condition. Some songs reflect this fact:
In Eles she promotes people to have fun with all the possible combination of love relations: boys with girls, boys with boys, girls with girls. In Rubens she tells the forbidden love story of two men who suffer from AIDS: "I want to bite you but I can´t because Rubens we are men, people don´t like it (...) if your family discover, they won´t like it, the society does not like it, people find it weird (...) imagine you and me visiting the doctor, with that new illness (...) my mom would suffer from a heart attack, your dad will have a paralysis. If they know that we had sex one day, our friends will cry, the neighbor will be talking (...) Rubens do you think is possible? We are men, the people will find it weird. |
Contemporary mpb
Drag – Music
The style known as Drag-Music has a big emphasis on electronic music. There is not that much of lyrics and a lot of space for dancing and performance. Some artists under this style are Dimmy Quier, Léo Áquila, Silvetty Montilla, Selma Light, Andréia Gasparetty, and Michelly Summer, among others.
At this point, the music was too explicit, it has nothing to hide. Also, it became common among the gay community to take popular songs and tranform them into a new version. For instance, the song Amor I love you (Tribalistas), was transformed in A dor foi no meu cu (the dick is in my ass) (Silvetty Montilla), or To nem aí (Luka), tranformed to Sou Travesti (Silvetty Montilla), Beijinho, beijinho – tchau, tchau of Xuxa, transformed in Beijinho, beijinho – pau, pau (Texticulos de Mary, música Todinha sua). Mixing different rythmes such as funk, electro, funk, electro, glitter-rock, hard-rock, punk, dance music, electronic music among others, the Electro-Funk arose as an open style. In this atmosphere, different artists and gay bands appeared such as Solange Tô aberta, Las bibas from Vizcaya, Bonde do Tetão, Queerfest, Montage, Bonde do Role, Spanka, Tetine, Pajubá, Bonde do Urso Manco and others, All of them, had some source of gay characteristics.
Pajubá is a project that was aimed to disseminate the gay dialect among the brasilian population through music. Although the project was never implemented, its legacy is evident in diffferent type of music with lyrics who are considered bizarre or absurd. People don´t know where the english ends and where the portuguese starts and where the pajubá arose.
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PUNK-HARDCOREn the 1980´s arose what is considered to be the first brasilian gay punk band. The members of the band were all lesbians. In fact, later, one of them got married with a travesti from Sao Paulo. The lyrics of the songs impacted the audience at that time. For insance, in A Santa Igreja the band criticized religion.
Texticulos de MaryTexticulos de Mary arose in the 1990´s. From this time to 2004, they released two cd´s. This brasilian gay punk band insisted that they were born from a testicule transformation occured in the body of a travesti called Mary. Its members said they lived a pararel reality in which they represented the minorities.
The song Natasha Orloff talks about a gay that gets lost in the capitalist world after the fall of the Berlin wall. |