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POR CAETANO VELOSO
I met # Miúcha in Salvador. She was pregnant with Bebel Gilberto. Thanks to #CarlosCoqueijo for having had contact with this special person at such an important moment: he wanted the Vila Velha music group to meet # João Gilberto, then married with her.
Over the years, Miúcha had a luminous presence in me both as an artist and as a person.
I became a comrade of Chico Buarque at the time of the Rio-São Paulo comings and goings. I went to Buarque Holanda's house a few times. I met the other brothers of Chico, but Miúcha, whom I had already met before, lived in the United States and later in Mexico.
His musicality and the strength that this had in the formation of Chico is a fact that attests to recall the recreational training opening of harmonic voices. And she sang very well with João in her second album with #StanGetz.
Back in Brazil, Miúcha contacted us # JoãoDonato, with whom he often appeared in my apartment in Delfim Moreira. It's also with her that #TomJobim has visited us a few times. Always smiling and enjoying a lot of life, Miúcha was all music, in the intimacy or on stage of # Canecão. With Vinicius and Tom.
Years later, this divine participation in the concert of # Bethânia! And now, as I write these words to the announcement of his death, Cézar Mendes tells me that "Frevo Axé", a song that I pbadionately love, his partnership with me, was the last song recorded by Miúcha
I stop writing and I will ask Cezinha to put the recording to listen to me (the track will be available soon).