about
"Luz da Canção", a composition by João Donato and Joyce Moreno, arranged and played by Vasil Hadžimanov.
Joyce, who shares this composition with João Donato, is a singer, guitarist and composer. In 1987, Antonio Carlos Jobim said “Joyce is one of the best singers of all times!… As if it weren’t enough, Joyce is a great composer and plays ace guitar! What an amazing woman!”. She recorded her debut album in 1968 and has since issued more than 20 albums and composed about 400 songs.
Since the beginning of her career, Joyce’s trademark has been the first-person feminine voice, which she pioneered. She was the first Brazilian songwriter to express herself in this form. This song is a perfect example. That’s why I chose it. The lyrics are the thoughts of a woman who lately has been pondering unimaginable things, namely how her life would be without her loved one. She’d rather have an endless love, but the insecurities of a woman lead her to thinking that we hardly live as we want to. Eventually, in the middle of the crowd, she sees him, her heart beats and his arrival is like a light from a song, brightening like a summer’s day!
João Donato is a musician and composer, one of the surviving and still active members of the generation that produced Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, and many other masters associated with the birth of bossa nova.
lyrics
Ultimamente dei pra pensar,
Coisas que eu nunca poderia imaginar,
Andei pensando não sei porquê
Como seria minha vida sem você
Sinceramente, foi bem ruim
Eu preferia que esse amor fosse sem fim
Inseguranças de um mulher
Dificilmente a gente vive como quer
Quanta tristeza, que solidão
Quanta saudade me apertando o coração
E eu sem notícias, sem nem saber
Por ande anda, o que foi feito de você
Mas finalmente, na multidão
Discretamente ouvi bater meu coração
Você chegando, luz da canção
Iluminando feito um dia de verão.
credits
from
Everyday a Little Love,
released November 4, 2022
Composers: João Donato/Joyce
Arranger: Vasil Hadžimanov
Amália Baraona, vocal
Vasil Hadžimanov, piano
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