Music-Roberto Carlos: still on top, at 73. olá pessoal .Enquanto muitas pessoas querem aposentarem , ele nem pensa isso .
Retirement? Career in decline? Nothing of the sort. Roberto Carlos continues to write new hits, to play shows, and to wow audiences, both in Brazil and abroad. Long live the King!
Born in
Cachoeiro de Itapemirim-ES, Roberto Carlos sang for the first time on a radio
station when he was only nine years old. His payment for his first performance
was a handful of candy. Time went by and Roberto became known as a king in
Brazil, and his fame spread to many other countries. In his 54-year career he
has recorded more than 50 albums and sold over 100 million copies. Dozens of
his songs have been number one in the charts in Brazil. Roberto is 73 years old
and has achieved everything an artist could have dreamed of. However, he is not
thinking about retiring. He still plays shows in Brazil and abroad, and is in
great physical shape, working out regularly. In November, he released an
EP - a sort of mini-album - with four songs. Two of these songs are brand new:
the ballad “Esse Cara Sou Eu” and the funk song “Furdúncio.” Both
are part of the soundtrack to the soap opera Salve Jorge. Eating
ice cream and watching soap operas are two of the life's greatest pleasures for
Roberto Carlos.
Romanticism, religion, and a new phase
Roberto
learned to play the guitar and piano when he was a child. He moved to Niterói
as a teenager and at that time he met another teen who would become his best
friend and musical partner: Erasmo
Carlos. The King’s first hit came in 1962, with Splish Splash. The
following year he wrote two of his biggest hits: É proibido fumar and O
Calhambeque. Roberto produced a light and irreverent kind of
rock. In 1965 Rede Record invited Roberto, Erasmo and singer
Wanderléa to present the show Jovem Guarda, which was on TV for
three years. In 1966 Roberto and Erasmo fell out over professional issues, but
the following year they made up. Roberto also starred in successful films
between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.
In the beginning of the 1970s Roberto began a new phase, with less rock and
more romanticism. Brazil also got to learn about his religious side.
Songs such as Jesus Cristo and A Montanha were
big hits. His superstitious side also appeared, and he would not wear brown
clothes, for example. Roberto began to sell albums in the USA, Europe and Latin
America, and stars such as Julio Iglesias and Ray Conniff recorded his songs.
In December 1974 Globo broadcast the first Roberto Carlos special, which has
remained a tradition at the end of the year for the channel. Roberto has been
married three times. His greatest love, Maria Rita, died in 1999, after a
battle with cancer.
Vocabulary
1 more
than twice any other – exp. idiom. = mais do que o dobro de qualquer outro
2 smash hits –
grandes sucessos
3 résumé –
currículo
4 ever – de todos
os tempos
5 to fall out –
se desentender
6 issues –
questões
7 to make up –
aqui = fazer as pazes
8 brown – marrom
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