The Brazilian singer Nana Caymmi passed away on Thursday at the age of 84, as reported by Brazilian television channel Globo.
Regarded as one of the most iconic voices in Brazilian music, the artist had been hospitalized since August of the previous year at São José Hospital in Botafogo, a southern district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, due to a cardiac arrhythmia.
Daughter of singer and composer Dorival Caymmi, who wrote the famous song “O que é que a baiana tem?” for Carmen Miranda, and singer Stella Maris, she first recorded in 1960 as a teenager, contributing to a track on one of her father’s albums.
Her second marriage was with Gilberto Gil, and together they composed the song ‘Bom dia’, released in 1967. Throughout her career, Nana Caymmi collaborated with artists such as Rita Lee, Caetano Veloso, and Chico Buarque.
In 1973, at the age of 32, she described herself in an interview with Globo as “a neurotic lady.”
“I come from a family of two composers and two performers who make me very proud, where music is more our life than our livelihood,” Nana Caymmi stated at the time.
