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Nana Caymmi
Biography
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. Also a composer, she has been recorded by giants such as Milton Nascimento.

Nana debuted on record in Dorival Caymmi's album Acalanto (Odeon, 1961). Marrying a Venezuelan doctor, she moved there in 1959. Her love for boleros come from this period. Seven years later, with two children, pregnant, and divorced from her husband, she came back to Rio in June 1966. 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). 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. Caymmi started an affair with Gil, and eventually they became informally married, with general scandal, as she was white and he, black. 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).
Selected Discography