Cartola Samba Songs

Angenor de Oliveira, better known as Cartola (Rio de Janeiro, October 11, 1908 – Rio de Janeiro, November 30, 1980), was a Brazilian singer, composer, poet and guitarist. His biggest hits being the songs As Rosas não Falam, O Mundo É um Moinho and Alvorada, he is considered by several musicians and music critics as the greatest samba singer in the history of Brazilian music.

Cartola was born in the Catete neighborhood, but spent his childhood in the Laranjeiras neighborhood. He took a liking to music and samba as a boy, learning to play the guitar from his father.[1]

Financial difficulties forced his large family to move to Morro da Mangueira, where an incipient favela was beginning to emerge.[2] There he soon met and became friends with Carlos Cachaça — six years older — and other bambas, in addition to introducing himself to the world of bohemia, malandragem and samba.[2] At the age of 15, after the death of his mother, he abandoned his studies — having only finished primary school.[1] He got a job as a construction worker and started wearing a bowler hat to protect himself from the cement falling from above. Because he wore this hat, he earned the nickname "Cartola" from his co-workers.[2]

Together with a group of samba friends from the hill, Cartola created the Bloco dos Arengueiros, whose nucleus in 1928 founded Estação Primeira de Mangueira. He also composed the first samba for the samba school, "Chega de Demanda". Cartola's sambas became popular in the 1930s, with illustrious voices such as Araci de Almeida, Carmen Miranda, Francisco Alves, Mário Reis and Sílvio Caldas.[2]

In 1974, at the age of 66, Cartola recorded the first of his four solo albums and his career took on a new momentum with instant classics such as "As Rosas não Falam", "O Mundo É um Moinho", "Acontece", "O Sol Nascerá" (with Elton Medeiros), "Who Sees Me Sorrindo" (with Carlos Cachaça), "Cordas de Aço", "Alvorada" and "Alegria". At the end of the 1970s, he moved from Morro da Mangueira to a house in Jacarepaguá, where he lived until his death in 1980.[2]

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