![]() ![]() She would only find out afterward, but even Gil himself took part in the booing. At the I FIC (International Song Festival), in Rio in 1966, with a newborn son waiting backstage, she presented "Saveiros" (Dori Caymmi/Nelson Motta), winning first place amidst booing, as some people preferred the timid interpretation of a novice Gal Costa of Gil's song "Minha Senhora" (written with Torquato Neto). Caymmi started an affair with Gil, and eventually they became informally married, which was a general scandal, as she was white and he was Black. In this period, she met Gilberto Gil on the weekly TV Excelsior show Ensaio Geral, recorded in São Paulo, on which Maria Bethânia, Marília Medalha, Tuca, Francis Hime, Toquinho, Sérgio Ricardo, Ciro Monteiro, and the Tamba Trio also regularly participated. There, she became involved with the Tropicalia people (her brother Dori, already a producer for Philips, was in close contact with all members of the movement, but neither of the two joined it). Seven years later, with two children, pregnant, and divorced from her husband, she came back to Rio in June 1966. ![]() Her love for boleros came from this period. Marrying a Venezuelan doctor, she moved there in 1959. Nana debuted on record in Dorival Caymmi's album Acalanto (Odeon, 1961). ![]() Also a composer, she has been recorded by giants such as Milton Nascimento. The daughter of singers Dorival Caymmi and Stella Maris (Adelaide Tostes Caymmi), Nana Caymmi is nevertheless an established singer on her own, as corroborated by her extensive discography and two gold records. ![]()
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