ODETE LARA / MAYSA back from Europe 1966 / Nana Caymmi / Flora

stunning Odete Lara on the cover of 'O Cruzeiro', 19 February 1963.

 Odete Lara and director Carlos Manga work for TV in 1963.

TV Guide Intervalo - 12 September 1963.

Chico Buarque & Odete Lara, September 1966. At the time they were performing a night-club act alongside MPB4 in Rio de Janeiro. RGE released a single 'Meu refrão' 

the original black & white shot. 

Lara & Buarque, September 1966. 

Chico, Odete Lara & MPB 4, September 1966. 

Chico Buarque & Odete Lara at Leme night club Arpège; photo posted in Van Jafa's column in Rio's 'Correio da Manhã', on 13 September 1966, with the caption: Today at Arpège, 'Meu Refrão' will be shown for critics, with Odete Lara, Chico Buarque de Holanda (photo) and MPB-4, with no less than 17 songs by Chico;  in a production by Antônio Carlos Fontoura and Hugo Carvana. It was Chico Buarque's first ever performance in his beloved Rio de Janeiro; Chico had started his singing career in São Paulo in late 1965, but never had a chance to sing in his hometown. 

Maysa left Brazil for Europe circa 1962... since then the Brazilian musical scene changed dramatically with the consolidation of local rock and the so-called MPB (Brazilian Popular Music originated in samba, choro, Portuguese fado etc. Maysa must have been really surprised when she noticed the world belonged to a different age bracket. 

MAYSA is back from Europe in 1966, by Manchete

'Manchete', 19 March 1966. 

Maysa shed 64 kg now weighing 58 kg just like when she was a single woman. While in Estoril, Portugal, Maysa met Miguel Azanza, a Belgian man from a Spanish extraction. They married and went to live in Salamanca, an exclusive area of Madrid. Maysa's 10 year son Jayme was sent to a boarding school in Spain too. 

Maysa records 'Dia das rosas' at RCA Victor studios in 1966. 'Cinelândia' no. 316.

'Cinelândia' no. 316. Maysa and band leader Erlon Chaves. 

By the end of  1966, journalist and song-writer Fernando César showed his favourite 10 songs for that awesome year: 'Dia das rosas' written by Luiz Bonfá & his wife Maria Helena Toledo and 'Canção sem título' written & sung by Maysa were both included. New face  Chico Buarque de Hollanda appeared with 3 titles: 'Pedro pedreiro', 'Olé, olá' and 'A banda' which won TV Record's Festival 1966; Elis Regina, who was the greatest female singer by 1966 also had 2 titles: 'Lunik 9' written by Gilberto Gil and 'Upa neguinho' by Edu Lobo.

NANA CAYMMI  /  FLORA 

Nana Caymmi confesses to Brazilian TV Guide 'Intervalo' she envies the great Elis Regina in an article in November 1966.

two weeks later, Flora tells the same magazine 'Intervalo' she started singing at the shower... and had plans to go the USA & Europe soon... Everyone knows she later married percusion man Airto Moreira and had a long singing career in the USA.