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Brazilian Popular Music
Bê Ignacio
| Brazil
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Frank Abraham
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“Azul”, Betina Ignacio’s third album, is an ode to the blue hours. The singer born in Brasil and now making home in Germany, drew from her own experience and paid homage to the time of dawn, when shadows get longer and thoughts drift into distance. Betina Ignacio, whose ‘s been called Be since her childhood, shares her personal process of finding herself and bringing together the best of what defines her personality.
As a daughter of a German mother and a Brazilian father, Be grew up in Monteazul, Sao Paolo. Overcoming serious sickness in her teenage years, she still states her career as a singer/songwriter her biggest challenge. “Having attended a School of Performing Arts and working as a model, I was able to develop substantial self-esteem, but becoming one with music as a singer, that was a long and winding road.” With this album though, she finally feels like she has reached that goal. Her thoughts have matured and she is perfectly at ease with herself. A quality that becomes more then obvious on this record. When Be speaks about this undeniable calm, she gets a little excited. “ The first two albums can be regarded at as laborious and complex, they were produced in Brazil, Germany and in the USA; whereas AZUL was completely composed by the water, by the sea! Pretty much close to the essence of things, without much technical fuss. The songs have magical depth, they breath harmony and longing; for me it was clear that only this word, the color Azul (blue) could summerize the essence of this album.”
Asking Betina about her sound, she proudly mentions the Jazz and Samba influences of her childhood: Gilberto Gil and Al Jarreau were ever present on her fathers radio selection in Sao Paolo. Betina is not afraid of modern pop music either though, in fact her music bears evidience of a continous flirt with the mainstream. Songs like “Yeneney” reminiscent of one of her idols Sade, or the single “Rhythm Of The Sea” are proof of her pop-appeal. Maybe it is a cliché but one must admit listening to the tracks, bringing tradition and lightness together is a brasilian trait. It only makes sense to ask : how does Be manage to get her audience instantly involved into this mixture, without being trapped in your average Latin genre? Her answer is as self-confident, as it is obvious: “With warmth and proximity!” she entices and communicates with her audience. She brings the smell of the sea to them. No room for skepticism, a joyful time is guaranteed. As on her previous two albums, Betina has worked with her husband Marquinho da Silva on “Azul” . Keeping the tender balance between private life and music is still a challenge, but Betina sticks to her life recipe and handles it with “warmth and proximity”. She smiles gently describing the endless car-rides, concert to concert, and the well known bickering about stage-outfits or lyrics. Her joyful spirit is her most loyal adviser, it’s how she remains to always be herself, as a wife, a mother and an artist.
With her passionate engagement for Monteazul, an organization based in Sao Paolo co-founded by her parents, she has realized one of her dreams. The NGO, that was brought to life 30 years ago, that Betina is an ambassador for, is also supported with a part of her musical income. Her countless visits to the Favelas of Sao Paolo give proof of how involved she is in the organizations activities and projects. None of her concerts misses the part where she draws attention to Monteazuls website and their programs. It’s no surprise to hear that the she feels the story of these children could have been hers and that this is her way of giving back some of the luck and happiness she has experienced in her life.
All these ingredients make Azul not just an album but a manifest of opposites joining in harmony. Music for the time between day and night, between light and dark, for the power of poetry in everyday-life, or put simply: for the blue hours!
