Therefore, it is only natural for Teresa to be the interpreter who is invited to read verses such as “I’m like a butterfly / All I think about is freedom / I don’t want to be mistreated / Don’t want to be taken off this floor” – duly translated by the singer into a female language in the recording, which will be released as a single, scheduled for Thursday, May 19 – in the official phonographic record. Recorded for songwriter which celebrates the 80th anniversary of Benito Di Paula, celebrated in November 2021.
For those who don’t care about music, Benito Di Paula is a singer, composer and instrumentalist from Rio de Janeiro who achieved great popularity in the 1970s and 1980s thanks to playing samba on piano keys with a rhythm that, in some ways sense, is the embryonic pagoda of the 1990s.
Not songwriter Benito 80Teresa Cristina sings butterfly protection with the participation of musicians Igor Caracas (drums, tambourine and ganza), Marcelo Cabral (double bass), Rodrigo Campos (kavako, agogo and surdo), Rodrigo Velloso (acoustic piano and Rhodes) – son of Benito and creator, artistic director and producer of the musical from the songbook (together with Romulo Froes) and Thiago Frans (flute).
With lyrics written by Benito Di Paula inspired by paintings that held butterflies inside glass (“They thought it was beautiful. I didn’t think it was beautiful at all. The butterfly is a symbol of freedom. It symbolizes the freedom we deserve”, the composer understands .), samba is 45 years old and has verses that can be interpreted with political meaning in Brazil in 2022, especially when heard in Teresa Cristina’s combative voice.
Officially announced on April 14 by the release of a single in which Joao Bosco sings samba-kançao. if not love (1974), about songwriter Benito 80 combines re-recordings of Benito de Paula’s songbook with the voices of 16 performers. In addition to tracks featuring Joao Bosco and Teresa Cristina, the disc will feature unpublished recordings of the composer’s songs in the voices of Criolo (Charlie Brown1974), Husara Marsal (satin trims1973) and On Ozzetti (after love1974), among other names.
