Rita Lee stated he knew São Paulo “finish to finish”, from Ipiranga museum To Metropolis Gallerysure Rua Augusta a Interlagosdo piss To Praça da Sé. In his biography, launched in 2016, the singer, songwriter and author who died on this Monday, the eighth, narrates the a long time of “wandering” by the capital of São Paulo, which he affectionately referred to as Sampa. The queen of Brazilian rock additionally lived in numerous neighborhoods of town, corresponding to Vila Mariana, Paraíso, Pacaembu, Cantareira and Higienópolis.
“I keep in mind once they constructed the Nationwide Setthe elegant stairs of the Cine Metro, the lamps of the Municipal theaterthe all the time thrilling crossing of the Viaduct do Cháthe view from the highest of the State Financial institution, the stylish Martinelli Constructingfrom the romantic arcades of school off san francisco. I even keep in mind the astronomical observatory within the place the place Masp is positioned immediately,” he wrote in Rita Lee: an autobiography, launched in 2016 by Editora Globo.
The mansion in Vila Mariana
Known as “massive home” by the artist, the Twenties residence the place she grew up in Rua Joaquim Távora, 670, already Vila Mariana, is a continuing presence in studies of childhood and adolescence. Subsequent door, in a semi-detached home, lived a household of Spanish-Polish immigrants.
“I keep in mind few particulars of the locations the place I lived all through my life, however the mansion on Rua Joaquim Távora, phone 703-487, stays intact in my reminiscence. It was within the giant kitchen that the ladies spent the entire day listening to the radio, stitching and cooking” , tells within the ebook.
As we speak, the residence not exists. “The entire mansion had very excessive ceilings, the doorways have been heavy, the big home windows, the ornaments on the partitions have been hand-painted and every bed room and front room had a distinct stamp”, he describes.
She additionally feedback on the in depth basement, “the stage for the idiosyncrasies of our ‘Addams’ household. It had ceilings and partitions lined with drawings, landscapes, images of movie and music artists, fairy tales, animals, saints, product manufacturers, leftover material, journal covers, mosaics of damaged crockery, in brief, we thought a thousand instances earlier than throwing any murals within the trash”, he says. There was additionally Rita’s father’s scientific experiment laboratory and a small stage the place the household carried out.
Dad’s downtown workplace
Charles, Rita Lee’s father, shared a dental workplace on the seventh ground of a constructing in Xavier Toledo Road, 98, within the heart of São Paulo. Rita tells of celebrities who have been attended by her father, corresponding to actor Sérgio Cardoso and singer Maysa. He additionally labored at house, within the “mansion”, in an improvised consulting room in the lounge.
@estadao
RITA LEE? SP | The singer cherished town the place she was born. From VilaMariana, she moved to Pompeia, the place the band OsMutantes was born. Comply with the farewell protection of #RitaLee on the Estadão web site #sp #musica #rock
authentic sound – Estadão
Congonhas Airport reminiscences
Along with the numerous instances he traveled from Congonhas Airport, within the south zone, throughout her profession, Rita additionally stored childhood reminiscences there. She visited the area along with her household on Saturdays to observe the landings and takeoffs. “It was a blast,” she went on to explain.
“On the second ground of the central constructing there was a balcony for guests proper above the boarding gate. It was customary for households to accompany the traveler to the airport after which wave from the balcony as passengers walked down the runway to the aircraft, not forgetting the well-known goodbye on the steps earlier than getting into.”
Rita Lee’s moments at Ibirapuera
The connection with the Ibirapuera it has been a part of Rita Lee’s reminiscences since earlier than it turned a park. the artist shall be held on Wednesday the tenth on the native planetarium.
Within the autobiography, he narrates, for instance, the household’s relationship with the then “Ibirapuera Forest”. “We parked in entrance of Organic Institute and from there we walked two blocks to the doorway of the forest. The immensity of the place invited us to open small clearings at totally different factors, the place we arrange a small camp. Every of us selected a tree or plant to ‘handle’, cleansing weeds, gathering useless leaves and naming the crops”, he studies.
The artist remembers her father Charles’s disappointment with the urbanization of a part of the forest space and transformation into an city park, in 1954. “The dream ended on the fourth centenary of São Paulo, when a big a part of the forest changed into asphalt, cement and buildings of doubtful style,” he says.
In his biography, he additionally remembers that the park’s planetarium turned the “weekly should” for the general public, on outings adopted by a visit to the native snack bar for a banana cut up. It was additionally within the park the place he posed for the duvet of his album tickets and flagswith Tutti Frutti, wherein he has the parrot Paco (from a good friend) on his shoulder.
Mates and events on the Guarapiranga dam
Rita Lee had family and friends in numerous neighborhoods and areas of São Paulo. Within the autobiography, she talks about events at associates’ homes in a home across the dam. Guarapirangabecause the “devoted squire of childhood”, the dancer and actor Bellonzi.
She recounts the experiences of “small events on the Guarapiranga home, the loopy individuals spot in Pauliceia, with that well-known scene of untamed individuals dawning within the 4 corners of the home”, she wrote. “At Guarapiranga’s home, Mick and her boyfriend managed the funds (huh?), Bellonzi took care of the kitchen, I helped with the cleansing.”
It was in these environment that he launched a tortoise named Nancy and in addition camped with a tent and a “little fireplace”. “Through the night time I used to be devoured by blackflies and I got here house trying like a manatee, I used to be so swollen.”
the home of mutants
a home in Pompeii, within the west zone, was the place the place Rita Lee hung out along with her colleagues from the band Os Mutantes, extra exactly at Rua Venâncio Aires, 408. Because of the focus of rock musicians, the neighborhood got here to be nicknamed “São Paulo’s Liverpool”. The wall in entrance of the residence was graffitied with references to the musical group.
“The reality is that I wandered between Pompeia, the place Ozmano lived, and Avenida São Luís, at QG Bahia, watching probably the most full procession of lovely individuals from the Brazilian avant-garde, an out and in of very attention-grabbing people by no means seen on the planet from which got here,” he narrated within the ebook.
At Rita Lee’s faculty
The singer studied at Liceu Pasteur, in Vila Mariana. “My father may skimp on floor beef as an alternative of filet mignon, however he did not skimp on training. For his daughters, by no means thoughts a nun’s faculty. Between the Italian Dante Alighieri faculty and the American Graduate faculty, Charles performed Swiss and selected the French Liceu Pasteur”, he says.
Within the ebook, he additionally remembers the rivalry between his band, the “Liceu ladies” and a gaggle of scholars from the “rival faculty”, Caetano de Campos, fashioned by the Dias Baptista brothers. Rita’s band, the Teenage Singers, additionally has connections with different locations within the metropolis, such because the João Caetano Theaternonetheless working within the Vila Clementino area.
Passes by Luz Station
Like different households on the time, Rita’s additionally traveled by practice. Within the ebook, she narrates walks that left the Mild Station, within the heart. “The impression of getting into the majestic Luz station constructed by the British was that of a black and white European movie from the Second World Warfare”, he described.
Rita Lee’s Household Church
Rita Lee tells some tales involving church buildings and chapels that she attended throughout her life. One among them is the Parish Saint Ignatius of Loyolaon Rua França Pinto, in Vila Mariana, the place she baptized her youngsters Beto (with Gilberto Gil and Sandra as godparents), Tui and Juca, and the place she was a “little angel within the procession” and made her first communion.
Rita Lee in Serra da Cantareira
The singer explored totally different factors of São Paulo. Within the early Nineteen Seventies, she started to attend Serra da Cantareira, within the north zone. In her autobiography, she recounts that the brothers Arnaldo and Sérgio Dias Baptista purchased land “in the course of the forest”, “surrounded by cliffs”.
“The concept was to arrange a hippie neighborhood for us to reside there all collectively now fortunately ever after, the dream of ten out of ten younger fools on the time. As quickly as the fundamental buildings have been erected, oz Trêsmano moved there along with his suitcase and care”, wrote the artist .
Rita resisted for some time till she moved to Arnaldo’s home, which she left to return to reside along with her dad and mom within the “massive home”. Years later, the singer returned to reside within the Cantareira area, accompanied by her accomplice Roberto de Carvalho. One morning throughout a visit to the pharmacy, she and her husband have been taken hostage throughout a theft, the expertise of which she described as “somewhat tragicomic story.”
Different artists additionally lived within the environment. “By a pleasing coincidence, Elis’s home and mine have been neighbors in Cantareira and we quickly began to go to one another like the latest childhood associates. (…) The ‘safety system’ of her home was neither digital nor canine : there have been some very offended geese that made a hell of a racket when somebody confirmed up there.”
Tales of life and soccer in Pacaembu
Rita Lee moved within the late Nineteen Seventies along with her household to Pacaembu, on the west facet, on Rua Ferdinando Laboriau, one block from the stadium. Afterward, he moved to a different a part of the neighborhood, on Rua Manoel Maria Tourinho, “in a pleasant manor home”, with a swimming pool, backyard and “a pleasant area for the boys to get pleasure from themselves”. Within the second home, that they had as a prepare dinner a person who they later found was a assassin wished by the police.
Corinthians, additionally attended staff video games. Within the ebook, he narrates that music Orra my presents an excerpt impressed by a music he heard on the Pacaembu stadium throughout a recreation of the Corinthians. “The ‘guerrilla, outsider’ chorus was picked up by the Corinthians followers in a recreation I went to observe at Pacaembu, the timão’s stadium of honor, in opposition to a South American staff”, he stated. As well as, he even carried out at stadium concert events.
