Leny de Andrade Lima (25 January 1943 – 24 July 2023), known professionally as Leny Andrade, was a Brazilian singer and musician.
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Andrade was described by Tony Bennett as the "Ella Fitzgerald of Brazil" and others compared her to the late Sarah Vaughan.[2] In Europe where she toured, she was the Brazilian First Lady of Jazz, building a huge fan base in the Netherlands and Italy. She recorded the album Embraceable You in July 1991 at Volendam, the Netherlands.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote of Andrade's performance at Birdland on 27 August 2008, "To describe Ms. Andrade as both the Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald of bossa nova only goes so far in evoking a performer whose voice seems to contain the body and soul of Brazil. You may think you know "The Girl from Ipanema", the final number in the show's opening medley of Jobim songs. But you haven't really absorbed it until you've heard Ms. Andrade sing it in Portuguese; disgorge might be a better word than sing, since, like everything else she performs, it seems to well up from the center of the earth."
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This song was the first time I'd heard Andrade. In the totality of music I listen to its one of a relative handful that cuts to the core. My head might be buzzing with projects or the emotional residue of the day, but on the infrequent occasions I let myself listen to it so as not to erode its power by over-listening, Andrade takes me by the hand and I'm subsumed in her visceral power. I see my life briefly in a new light; a wide range of emotions rise together and I'm grounded in surrender and levitated in some kind of truth and hope.
