Leny de Andrade Lima (25 January 1943 – 24 July 2023), known professionally as Leny Andrade, was a Brazilian singer and musician. Both Andrade's first and last names are sometimes misspelled in English as "Lenn", "Leni", and "Adrade". She had several hits on the Brazilian charts. In 2007 she shared a

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with

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for Best MPB ( Musica Popular Brasileira) Album, ''Ao Vivo''. Andrade performed with

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, Luiz Eça,

Dick Farney Farnésio Dutra e Silva (14 November 1921 – 4 August 1987), better known as Dick Farney, was a Brazilian jazz pianist, composer, and singer who was popular in Brazil from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s and 1980s. Biography He began playing pi ...

João Donato João Donato de Oliveira Neto (; 17 August 1934 – 17 July 2023) was a Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist as well as a trombonist from Rio Branco. He first worked with Altamiro Carrilho and went on to perform with Antonio Carlos Jobim an ...

Eumir Deodato Eumir Deodato de Almeida (; born 22 June 1943) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as Pop music, pop, Rock music, rock, disco, rhythm a ...

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, and Francis Hime. Andrade's style is a synthesis of

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and

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Early life

Leny de Andrade Lima was born in

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on 25 January 1943. Andrade began her career singing in clubs, lived five years in Mexico, and spent a good part of her life living in the United States and Europe. She studied piano at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music.

Reception

Andrade was described by

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as the "

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of Brazil" and others compared her to the late

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. In Europe where she toured, she was the Brazilian First Lady of Jazz, building a huge fan base in the Netherlands and Italy. She recorded the album ''Embraceable You'' in July 1991 at Volendam, the Netherlands.

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of ''

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'' wrote of Andrade's performance at Birdland on 27 August 2008, "To describe Ms. Andrade as both the

and

of bossa nova only goes so far in evoking a performer whose voice seems to contain the body and soul of Brazil. You may think you know "

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", the final number in the show's opening medley of Jobim songs. But you haven't really absorbed it until you've heard Ms. Andrade sing it in Portuguese; disgorge might be a better word than sing, since, like everything else she performs, it seems to well up from the center of the earth."

Death

Leny Andrade died on 24 July 2023, at the age of 80. She had been suffering from

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. Andrade was a longtime friend of Dóris Monteiro, who also died on the same day. The joint wake took place on 25 July 2023 at Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro.

Discography

* ''A Sensação'' (

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, 1961) * ''A Arte Maior de Leny Andrade'' (

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, 1963) * ''Gemini V'' with

( Odeon, 1965) * ''Estamos Aí'' (Odeon, 1965) * ''Gemini V en Mexico'' with Pery Ribeiro (Odeon, 1966) * ''Leny Andrade'' (RVV, 1968) * ''Gemini Cinco Anos Depois'' with Pery Ribeiro (Odeon, 1972) * ''Alvoroço'' (Odeon, 1973) * ''Leny Andrade'' (Odeon, 1975) * ''Registro'' (CBS, 1979) * ''Leny Andrade'' (Pointer, 1984) * ''Cartola 80 Anos'' (Pan Produções Artísticas, 1987) * ''Luz Neon'' (Eldorado, 1989) * ''Eu Quero Ver'' (Eldorado, 1990) * ''Bossa Nova'' (Eldorado, 1991) * ''Embraceable You'' ( Timeless, 1991) * ''Nós'' with

(Velas, 1993) * ''Maiden Voyage'' with

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( Chesky, 1994) * ''Coisa Fina'' with

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(Perfil Musical, 1994) * ''Letra & Música: Antonio Carlos Jobim'' with

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(Lumiar Discos, 1995) * ''Luz Negra: Nelson Cavaquinho por Leny Andrade'' (Velas, 1995) * ''Bossas Novas'' (Albatroz, 1998) * ''Seja Você'' (Albatroz, 2001) * ''Canta Altay Veloso'' (Obi Music, 2002) * ''Lua Do Arpoador'' with

(Biscoito Fino, 2006) * ''Ao Vivo'' (Albatroz, 2012) * ''As Canções Do Rei'' (Albatroz, 2013) * ''Iluminados – Leny Andrade sings Ivan Lins & Vítor Martins'' (2014) * ''Alegria De Viver'' with Roni Ben-Hur ( Motema, 2014) * ''Canta Fred Falcão: Bossa Nova'' (Biscoito Fino, 2018) * ''Alma Mía'' (Fina Flor, 2019)

References

External links

*
Leny Andrade
'' in Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popula Brasileira * *
Leny Andrade
at Slipcue.com's guide to Brazilian music

NM Music Agency Artist Profile of Leny Andrade * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrade, Leny 1943 births 2023 deaths Brazilian bossa nova singers 20th-century Brazilian women singers 20th-century Brazilian singers Brazilian jazz composers Brazilian jazz singers Brazilian women jazz singers Chesky Records artists Latin Grammy Award winners Música Popular Brasileira singers Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city) 21st-century Brazilian women singers 21st-century Brazilian singers Motéma Music artists Timeless Records artists Polydor Records artists CBS Records artists Women in Latin music Portuguese-language singers of Brazil