João Donato’s partnership with Gal Costa, between 1974 and 1976, still echoes after almost 50 years

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Dead today, aged 88, pianist is a recurring name, as a musician and arranger, on the albums ‘Cantar’ and ‘Gal canta Caymmi’. ♪ MEMÓRIA – Partnership between Caetano Veloso and João Donato (August 17, 1934 – July 17, 2023), A rá tops the list of the 10 most recorded songs by the composer and pianist from Acre, who died at dawn today in a hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) – one month away from celebrating his 89th birthday – due to pneumonia. The frog is music presented to Brazil in the crystal clear voice of Gal Costa (1945 – 2022), which only reinforces that the partnership signed by the singer with Donato between 1974 and 1976 still reverberates in Brazilian music on the verge of completing 50 years. The frog was one of the highlights of the repertoire put together by Gal on the album Cantar (1974), an album on which Donato played the piano in songs such as Chululu (Mariah Costa, 1974) and Até quem saber (1973) – a song composed by Donato in partnership with brother Lysias Ênio and launched by Donato on the album Quem é quem (1973) – and arranged the recordings of A rã and Flor de maracujá (1974), another partnership between the artist and his brother Lysias Ênio. The refined partnership between Gal Costa and João Donato – captured by the lens of photographer Mario Luiz Thompson (1945 – 2021) in the image seen above – was transposed from the studios to the stage. Donato participated in some of Gal’s shows on the tour derived from the Cantar album. Afterwards, the singer and the pianist entered the studio again, at the end of 1975, to shape the album Gal canta Caymmi, released in 1976. Donato played the piano in this songbook in which Gal gave voice to songs by composer Dorival Caymmi (1914 – 2008), having shared the arrangements with guitarist Perinho Albuquerque. It fell to Donato to arrange the songs Nem eu (1952), Pei um ita no norte (1945), Só crazy (1955) – great success of the record, as the recording of the samba-canção was amplified in the opening of the soap opera O casarão (TV Globo , 1976) – and Vatapá (1942). The partnership with the album extended to the show inspired by the album Gal canta Caymmi and premiered in that year, 1976. From then on, Gal’s musical relationship with Donato was never so close again, but the composer never left the singer’s discography. In 1982, Gal included Verbos do amor, an unprecedented partnership between Donato and poet and lyricist Abel Silva, in the repertoire of the album Minha voz. In 1990, the artist presented Nua idea (Leila XII) – a partnership between Caetano Veloso and Donato – on the album Plural (1990). In 1996, Gal recorded Lugar Comum (João Donato and Gilberto Gil, 1974) and Open Gaiolas (João Donato and Martinho da Vila, 1982) as a guest of Célia Vaz and Wanda Sá on the album Brasileiras. In 1999, when participating in the Songbook João Donato, the singer recorded Simple affection (1982), the greatest success of Donato’s partnership with Abel Silva, released by Angela Ro Ro. Finally, in 2015, Gal gave voice to Donato’s first partnership with Thalma de Freitas, Ecstasy, on the album Estratosférica and rewound the song on the album Estratosférica ao vivo (2017).

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