Elza Soares stood quietly, a few minutes before being born into music. “I’m from Planet Hunger,” she said. Her recording of the song Malandro, for instance, helped popularise Jorge Aragão, one of the greatest partido-alto sambistas in Brazil. Planeta Fome, released in 2019, nods to her early days of Planet Hunger while speaking to the famine that made a comeback to Brazil in recent years. Elza Soares did not just embrace the revolutionary, liberating countercultural spirit in Brazil as the 20th century became the 21st – she was that spirit.

Source: The Guardian January 22, 2022 13:41 UTC