Few Brazilian singers enjoy the prestige and diverse curriculum of this Rio-born soprano. From Tom Jobim to Chico Buarque, through Djavan, Edu Lobo, Jacques Morelembaum and Egberto Gismonti, Olivia Byington has divided the stage with the brightest stars of Brazilian music.
About the new CD:
..When I started playing the guitar again I found a new partner, and that..s where the idea of this album, entirely composed by me, comes from. When I started, I was thinking about doing songs by other musicians, making up new ways to interpret their work and coming up with new introductions. But new tunes started to haunt me, drawing me to plunge deeper into my musicality. For a while I couldn..t sleep because the new melodies kept me awake, invading my senses like perfume, circling and whirling round my head during these sleepless nights. To compose again was like pulling a thread of songs from an endless yarn in my soul. It was like watering the seeds and seeing flowers grow in my garden. The lyrics by Tiago Torres da Silva helped me by pointing the way. My voice likes large intervals and leaps, and it..s an instrument for me when I..m composing.
Singing feels good. It gives me pleasure. Singing my own songs is better still.
I wrote these twelve songs at different times. Some in one night, others over 20 years, like Balada do Avesso, with Geraldo Carneiro. Todo Par, with Marcelo Pires, was composed more quickly, in just 8 years. But my partnership with Portugal..s Tiago Torres da Silva was more explosive and grew out of the passion I have had for Portugal over the last few years.
I have named this CD after myself, as it embodies my own truths translated into rhythms and melodies, inspired by all of the music I have been surrounded by throughout my life... Olivia Byington
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Videoclip from the new album «Olivia Byington»
