Nieuw album van Lio: 'Lio canta Caymmi' uit op 30 maart

Zangeres Lio werd op 16 jarige leeftijd bekend met het nummer ‘Banana Split’ dat tot stand kwam met hulp van producer Marc Moulin (Telex). De tekst van het nummer was van de hand van ene Jacques Duvall. Het werd een van de populairste nummers in de Franstalige muziek van de jaren tachtig.

Lio, Brusselse met Portugese roots, bouwde een mooie carrière uit en verrast nu met een nieuwe samenwerking met Jacques Duvall. Op het Brusselse Crammed Label brengen ze een album uit met covers en bewerkingen van Bossa legende Dorival Caymmi, tevens het eerste album in haar moedertaal.

Het album ‘Lio canta Caymmi’ verschijnt op Crammed Discs op 30/03 maar je kan nu al kennismaken met een eerste nummer: "É doce morrer no mar” : https://youtu.be/wwT2QUEg5A8

Background

Idolized in his country but less known abroad, Dorival Caymmi (1914-2008) is one of the most influential singer-songwriters in the history of Brazil's popular music. Major figures such as João Gilberto, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso have sung his praise and cited him as a prime source of inspiration for their work.

Jacques Duvall, the elegant lyricist who has written songs for key French artists such as Alain Chamfort, Lio and Jane Birkin, has come up with the idea for this album, in which his partner-in-crime Lio performs twelve Dorival Caymmi songs. The works of the Bahian master are subtly revisited, as if translocated to the Northern hemisphere, thanks to inventive arrangements by French musician Christophe Vandeputte, and to Lio's moving & lively interpretation.

Born Vanda Maria Ribeiro Furtado Tavares de Vasconcelos in Lisbon and raised in Brussels, Lio became a pop icon in France and Belgium ever since the release of her debut single "Le Banana Split" in 1979, she was sixteen at the time. She went on to record several highy successful albums (on which she worked with the likes of Telex, The Sparks and John Cale), and pursued a career as an actress, appearing in no less than 40 feature films. "Lio canta Caymmi" is the first album she sings in her native Portuguese.

Being both fans of French of renowned comic stip artist Loustal, Lio and Jacques Duvall asked him to create a drawing, which now adorns the front cover of the album.