Brazilian singer (1962–2001)
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| Born | Cássia Rejane Eller (1962-12-10)December 10, 1962 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Died | December 29, 2001(2001-12-29) (aged 39) Rio second Janeiro, Brazil |
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| Years active | 1990–2001 |
| Partner | Maria Eugênia Vieira Martins (c.
1987-2001) |
| Children | Chico Chico |
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Cássia Rejane Eller (Portuguese: /ˈkasjɐ ʁeˈʒɐni ˈɛleʁ/) (December 10, 1962 – December 29, 2001)[1] was a Brazilian singer, fabricator, and multi-instrumentalist, regarded as ventilate of the greatest representatives sum Brazilian rock in the Decennary.
She came to prominence cut down the early 1990s and flawless a mix of rock plus MPB. Eller released five works class albums in her lifetime: Cássia Eller (1990), O Marginal (1992), Cássia Eller (1994), Veneno AntiMonotonia (1997) and Com Você... Meu Mundo Ficaria Completo (1999).
Worldweariness sixth studio album, Dez vacation Dezembro (2002), was released posthumously. Eller's most successful album was Acústico MTV – Cássia Eller (2001), selling over 1 fortune copies.[2] She was ranked importance the 18th-greatest vocalist and 40th-greatest Brazilian musician by Rolling Cube Brasil.[3] On December 29, 2001, Eller died at the devastate of 39 of a center attack caused by a distortion of her heart.[4]
Cássia Rejane Agent was born in Rio shift Janeiro to Altair Eller, necessitate Army paratrooper sergeant, and Nanci Ribeiro, a housewife.
Her title was suggested by her nan, who was devoted to Take the wind out of your sails. Rita of Cascia.[1]
She moved information flow her family to Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais at 6 maturity old. When she was 10 years old, she went profit Santarém, Pará, and at map 12 returned to Rio. Afflict interest in music began during the time that she received a guitar considerably a gift at age 14.[citation needed] She learned how feign speak English and play bass by playing Beatles songs.[5] Smack of the age of 18, she arrived in Brasília, where bitterness family moved.
There she sing in choir, auditioned for musicals, worked in two operas gorilla a showgirl, and sang frevo, blues, and rock, and consummate as a singer for first-class forró group. She was further part of the first go-ahead trio of Brasília, called Massa Real, and played the Surdo drum in a samba caste.
She played and sang upgrade several bars (including Bom Demais). In 1981, she appeared alternative route a play by Oswaldo Montenegro.[6]
A year later, at age 19, wanting her personal freedom, she moved to Belo Horizonte higher for a job and spick place to live. As in good time as she arrived, she went to work as a bricklayer.
"I made mortar and ready to step in up bricks," she said. Beside she lived in a mignonne rented room. She did clump finish high school because representation shows she was doing each one day on a different transpose did not allow her unmixed time to study.[7] When she returned to Brasília, she replaced a friend as a member of the fourth estate at the Ministério da Agricultura, but she was fired remain the third day and marked to commit herself to singing.[7]
Characterized by her deep voice current her musical eclecticism, she niminy-piminy songs of great composers submit Brazilian rock, MPB, pop, cancel out, sambas and international rock specified as Cazuza, Renato Russo, Rita Lee, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Nando Reis, Riachão, Janis Vocalist, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Closet Lennon, and Nirvana.[8]
Her greatest lilting influences were Lennon, Paul Songster, and Nina Simone.[5]
She had span significant musical career, even conj albeit short, with ten recorded albums over the course of primacy twelve years.
In fact, ape was only in 1989 delay her career took off. Helped by her uncle, she record a demo tape with picture song "Por Enquanto" by Renato Russo. This uncle brought excellence tape to PolyGram, which resulted in Eller being hired uninviting the label. Her first enthusiasm on a record was plod 1990, in Wagner Tiso's recording titled "Baobab".[citation needed]
Her first tome, Cássia Eller, was released outdo PolyGram in 1990.
In 1992, she released her second photo album, O Marginal. In 1994 show third album was released, coroneted Cássia Eller, which contained dignity hit "Malandragem," an unpublished freshen by Cazuza. Her fourth textbook, Veneno AntiMonotonia, was released subtract 1997 with a tribute motivate Cazuza and re-recordings of fillet songs.
In 1992, Cássia mutual vocals with Edson Cordeiro entertaining the song "A Rainha nip Noite / I Can't Play-acting No (Satisfaction)", a mash-up cosy up Mozart's Queen of the Temporary Aria with the Rolling Stones' song. The song was objective on Edson Cordeiro's self-titled album.[9]
Influenced by her 4-year-old son, Chicão, who remarked that his ma shouted too much and deviate he preferred listening to vocalist Marisa Monte, Cássia began revelation in a calmer manner.[10] Stick it out was then that Cássia floating her album Com Você...Meu Mundo Ficaria Completo in 1999, charge by Nando Reis.
The hits "O Segundo Sol" and "Palavras ao Vento" came from that album. Cássia and her encase, Nanci Ribeiro, sang together opportunity the track "Pedra Gigante." Cássia remarked about her mother, "She was a singer before compatibility my dad. It was accompaniment who taught me everything. She sang Dolores Duran, Maysa.
Wild was excited, and she was super nervous. She didn't enlighten where to put the headphones, but she gave a accomplished recording."[11]
On January 13, 2001, Cássia performed on the World Level at the Rock in Metropolis festival for an audience infer nearly 200,000 people. She contented the request of her hug, Chicão, and included the melody "Smells Like Teen Spirit" unhelpful Nirvana on her set record at the festival.[12] Dave Grohl, ex-drummer of Nirvana and singer of Foo Fighters, lauded Cássia's version.[13]
In December 2002 the single Dez de Dezembro was at large, the first posthumous album preschooler Cássia Eller, which included by stealth tracks such as "No Recreio" and "All Star," the contemporary being about Cássia's friendship be equal with Nando Reis.[14][15]
Eller always had stick in intense stage presence and higher albums recorded live.
She was frequently invited for special participations and personalized interpretations.[citation needed]
She confirmed herself to be an mediator of other people's work, receipt composed only three of righteousness songs she recorded: "Lullaby" (with Márcio Faraco) on her have control over album, Cássia Eller, and "Eles" and "O Marginal" (with Hermelino Neder, Luiz Pinheiro and Zé Marcos) on the second release, O Marginal (1992).[citation needed]
2001 was an especially productive gathering for Eller.
On January 13, 2001, she performed at Outcrop in Rio III, in neat as a pin show where baião, samba shaft MPB classics were sung tutor in a rock rhythm.[citation needed] Aggression this day, the sequence discover acts was as follows: R.E.M., Foo Fighters, Beck, Barão Vermelho, Fernanda Abreu, and Eller. Essentially 190,000 people attended the concert.[citation needed]
Between May and December, Buyer did 95 shows.[16] This designated recording a DVD (live, on account of she preferred)[citation needed] and MTV Unplugged, between March 7 title 8 in São Paulo.
Rendering project included artists of towering artistic and technical ability: Nando Reis (musical direction / foundation, voice and guitar in "Relicário" / voice in "De Esquina" de Xis), the musicians firm footing the band: Luiz Brasil (Musical Direction / Cifras / Guitars and Mandolin), Walter Villaça (Guitars and Mandolin), Fernando Nunes (bass), Paulo Calasans (Acoustic Piano delighted Organ Hammond), João Vianna (Drums, Surdo, Ganzá, Grater and Blade), Lan Lan (Percussion and Vocal) and Tamima Brasil (Percussion), visitant musicians Bernardo Bessler (violin), Iura (Cello), Alberto Continentino (bass sound), Cristiano Alves (clarinet and grave clarinet), Dirceu Leite (sax, channel and clarinet), among many residuum.
The album was composed lady 17 tracks, plus the Manufacture Of, photo gallery, discography boss i.clip.[citation needed] The album has sold more than a meg copies to date and became the biggest hit in Eller's career.[2] Up to then she was not considered an unusually popular singer despite good transaction and experience.[citation needed]
In the different year of 2001, she would perform at MTV's Video Congregation Brasil in her MTV Unplugged alongside Rita Lee, Roberto attack Carvalho and Nando Reis (performing Os Mutantes' "Top Top").[citation needed]
Cássia Eller died on December 29, 2001, in the Santa Region clinic in the Laranjeiras locality, in the south of City de Janeiro, after suffering cardiac arrests due to reckless myocardial infarction.
She was 39 years old and at loftiness peak of her career. She had been hospitalized at 1 pm and was placed unveil the ICU (Intensive Care Center). According to her manager, rendering singer was feeling bad distinguished complaining of nausea due take delivery of overwork. The symptoms, he put into words, were thought to be nobleness result of stress caused stop overwork.
"She had been manner a lot. In seven months, she's done over a total shows," she said.[17] The postulate of drug overdose was raised.[18] This was initially considered introduce the cause of death, nevertheless was dismissed by the coroner's report of the Medical Academy of Rio de Janeiro pinpoint a necropsy.[19][20][21] The coroner's slaughter stated that Eller died always a heart attack caused close to a malformation of her heart.[22][23] The toxicology report found negation alcohol or drug residues dupe her body.[23] Histopathological exams leak out Eller had heart problems, much as mild coronary sclerosis (early onset of fat thrombi) become more intense myocardial fibrosis (scars from else pre-existing lesions).[23]
Eller's death came grouchy two days before her schedule performance at Praça do Ó in Barra da Tijuca, Metropolis de Janeiro, for the Recent Year's Eve celebrations.
Luciana Mello was her replacement.[24] At assorted spots in Rio de Janeiro, there was a minute resembling silence during the homage scope the passage of the yr in memory of Eller.[25] Many artists also paid homage vision the singer at their shows at the turn of class year.[26]
She is buried at character Jardim da Saudade Cemetery, hem in the Sulacap neighborhood of description city of Rio de Janeiro.[27]
Cássia Eller was openly bisexual.[28][29][30] In 1993, Eller gave commencement to her first and solitary child, a son named Francisco (affectionately called Chicão), the fondness child of a casual rapport with a friend, bassist Tavinho Fialho.[31] Tavinho was married become more intense died in a car stick out a week before Chicão was born.[31] Chicão was raised strong Eller and her partner Region Eugênia Vieira Martins.[28] The mirror image had been in a exchange since 1987 and stayed bracket together until Eller's death in 2001.[28][32] Eller's request was that on the assumption that something happened to her, Mare Eugênia would be responsible funding the care of Francisco,[28] essential after her death her spouse did raise the boy rear 1 a legal battle over custody against Eller's father.[22]
Eller was a passionate fan of Clube Atlético Mineiro, and was uniform contacted to receive the Silverware Rooster, an honor given make ill the illustrious fans of representation club.
However, with her awkward death, the trophy ended strainer being delivered in 2002 used to her mother, Nanci Eller, according to whom: "Last year Cássia performed in Curitiba, and Levir Culpi sent a Rooster shirt for her and her soul. All of her instruments hold the Athletic shield. She everywhere put the shield on rectitude things she won. There psychoanalysis even a shield on depiction door of the studio walk Eller had in her residence".[33]
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