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LAST AUDIOS RECORDED BY RITA
If the child's mother dies,
people usually say, "Now Mommy became a star."
Death is not a punishment,
death is going back home.
Where were you before you were born?
You went to school, now you're going home, that's it.
Good morning, Rita Lee.
Now I'm going to ask you some questions.
Okay.
When you were little, did you sing or would like to sing?
I never dreamed of being a singer.
My father wouldn't let us do these things.
Until my father heard "Ovelha Negra" on the radio,
he didn't give it much importance.
He thought that at any moment my musical hobbies would end
and I would become a dentist.
"Ovelha Negra" is a song that represents Rita a lot.
I think this song is prophetic.
I had an easygoing life
I liked to enjoy the good things
Her parents didn't want her, a girl growing in the 60s,
to play with a rock band.
What family would want that?
She would jump out the window and go to rehearse.
I would run away at night and they wouldn't know.
It was like this: my father had dinner at seven o'clock at night,
and we had to be at the table, that was the rule...
I was already in my pajamas.
He went upstairs and... bam!
Underneath my pajamas, I had my "war clothes."
And we would come back at four in the morning.
Minutes before he knocked on the door to go to school.
Then my dad said, "Daughter..."
She wasn't a rebel, she was different.
"You're the black sheep of the family"
"Daughter,
you are the black sheep of the family.
Now it's time for you to take on and be gone!"
And be gone
It says a lot about this moment of incorporation
of the great wanderer, of the great artist around the world.
When someone is lost
Trying to find oneself
Damn, this girl is singing...
I think she's singing to me, she's singing my life.
It's a song that struck a chord with a generation.
Baby, baby
There's no use in calling
When someone is lost
Trying to find oneself
Brothers, take one.
What's up?
All good? I need to stand on my toes to hug you properly.
-Shorty. Great. -Then it works.
-Ready? -Ready! Let's go.
SOME TIME BEFORE PASSING, RITA WROTE A FAREWELL LETTER TO HER CHILDREN.
Little brother.
All good?
Did you read this letter?
-You don't know this letter? -No.
-I read it? -Yes.
You were the first woman to lead a band in Brazil.
Oh, boy.
Yes, I'm one of them
My name is Luiz Sérgio,
and because of the lysergic scene,
I changed it from "Luiz Sérgio" to "Luisérgico"
and I formed a band called "Lisergia."
TUTTI FRUTTI GUITAR PLAYER
I already had Lee Marcucci with me.
We had a meeting at Rita's place, in Vila Mariana,
where she lived with her parents.
We took some acoustic guitars and started playing with her
the songs we had, the things we knew.
She said, "I like it, because there's a good base here."
I said, "Cool, so let's start a band: Tutti Frutti."
Barefooted, why so many questions
And that's how it started.
Rita started to be happy.
I think that's when Rita found her rhythm.
She fell into the four by four, the cadence of rock and roll.
One, two, three, four!
Rock and roll
Then Rita Lee became the Queen of Rock.
Rock and roll
The first show was wonderful, at the Ruth Escobar Theater.
We spent almost two months rehearsing every day.
Then we played the first night,
and it sold out every single day.
We performed on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
It was fun, it wasn't an obligation.
We were doing what we wanted, it was our dream,
the dream of our lives.
Rock and roll
PUBLIC ARCHIVES
We recorded an album with material we had,
but I don't know why Philips didn't release it,
and that album was shelved.
The record label and the censorship banned it.
CENSORSHIP DIVISION FOR PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT
When I did all this research,
I found more than 300 documents citing Rita.
I am impressed by the amount of censorship.
"Gente Fina é Outra Coisa" would be the first single,
so the first CD had already been banned by the dictatorship.
And their conclusion is, "The lyrics have an anarchic connotation
and its release could lead to social and family breakdown.
The song lyrics are absolutely not suitable for approval."
Rita wanted the album to come out, she thought it was nice,
the record label was too prudish,
she got pissed off and...
She ended up breaking some things there.
She goes in there with Tim Maia, who was also pissed off with them,
and Midani, who was the CEO, wouldn't see them,
so they go into his room, without him there
and destroy the entire room.
In 1974,
the Rita and Tutti Frutti concert went to Rio de Janeiro,
and was on for more two or three months.
Mother Nature
We already had... The gay movement was already quite big,
they were our fans.
Rita really won over this audience,
with her stance, her asexual thing on stage,
the David Bowie vibe and so on.
Then, there's a scene up ahead with a record label telling her,
"You need to dress like a girl,
you need to sing silly love songs, you need..."
She got pissed, told everyone to fuck off,
and then her contract with Philips ended.
I'm going to introduce the Tutti Frutti guys.
The guys who do the vocals and percussion:
Beto.
Wilson.
Rubens.
Lee Marcucci.
Serginho Della Monica.
Luiz Carlini.
Paulo Maurício.
I left the band in 75.
And me.
Because Rita changed record labels
and the record label wanted her at the front,
it was a requirement.
It was also time for Rita to be on her own
and do her thing, you know?
We had a talk.
Of course it wasn't pleasant
for either me or her.
She really became a star.
It was that incredible album, Fruto Proibido.
One fine day I decided to change
And do everything I wanted to do
Fruto Proibido is Rita Lee and Tutti Frutti's best album
and is one of the best Brazilian rock albums.
Until then,
there was no combination of music and lyrics
that sounded real and natural.
It's here we have "Ovelha Negra," we have "Esse Tal de Roque Enrow,"
"Agora Só Falta Você."
It was Rita arriving with her talent,
her extraordinary strength
full of humor, irony, criticism.
Rita's cry for freedom.
For all the men who told her, "You can't do this."
And then she became
the great Queen of Brazilian Rock and Roll.
Now you should come along
It was the first rock record
to sell hundreds of thousands of copies.
We toured all over Brazil.
At the time, it was very difficult
because Brazil didn't have the infrastructure
to put on shows for so many people.
And Rita went on tour,
with a sharp band, and everyone singing "Ovelha Negra."
Baby, baby, it's pointless to wait
We opened the market with baby steps.
Trying to find oneself
The Fruto Proibido tour was a bit complicated,
especially in Rio de Janeiro.
With the drugs, cocaine, people end up going a bit crazy.
And that was her first and only overdose,
which was with cocaine, as she says.
She was in a hotel room...
Right? And...
And she said she even thought about...
And she sad
she was held back from jumping out of a window.
I guess the manager was helping her, giving her strength,
and she ended up getting better and we were worried
about her on the other side.
Black sheep of the family
Won't be coming back
I'm not
No
I'll be gone
I played with João Ricardo, one of the members of Secos e Molhados,
which also included Ney Matogrosso.
At the time we recorded an album called Bandido,
which included a song by Rita.
Criminal, criminal
I asked her for a song and she gave it to me.
The song is called "Bandido Corazón."
Criminal, criminal baby
I sent the song and then Ney said, "Look, I know a good guitarist, Zezé."
I said, "Zezé, nice."
"I'll introduce you to Zezé, we'll do a show
and I'll introduce you."
They came to do the show, and Zezé was Roberto.
And Rita went to see Ney Matogrosso's show
and rumor has it that she liked the guitar.
There was a nice suggestion there,
he was a little bit Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Keith Richards,
you could feel that his hand was a hand you liked.
I'm from the era of the jaguar
When animals spoke
Through the National Radio
I felt she had her eye on Roberto.
Then afterwards she went to the dressing room,
spoke to me, said,
"Ney, come over to my house for dinner tomorrow.
If you want to bring some musicians with you, go ahead."
I said, "Okay." I already knew who I would bring.
It was all orchestrated with Ney.
I said, "Ney, introduce me!
-Introduce me to that hot guy." -She made dinner.
-Yeah, it was all fancy.
Her house was very special,
because it had...
it was all decorated in a very magical way.
We fell in love there,
so much so that I remember, as soon as I arrived, I sat down
and I was wearing a pair of socks,
a pair of red lurex socks,
lurex is something shiny, silvery.
And she saw my pair of socks.
Then I said, "Lovely socks!" He took them off...
-He took them off? -"It's yours."
I'm from the time of time
I am
I am the time
They sat down at the piano
and the world around them vanished, it was just the two of them.
And I started playing some boogie-woogie,
and she started doing the left hand of the boogie-woogie...
HUSBAND AND PARTNER
And him...
Then we started singing some lyrics,
and those lyrics were messages we were giving to each other.
"Wow, you're beautiful!"
Saying things...
Romantic things.
I used to be happy
And I knew it
And we stayed together to this day.
My partner.
The love of my life.
Roberto de Carvalho.
I play my guitar
When no one touches me
In 1976, they released the album
Entradas e Bandeiras.
I hope you all come,
the name is Entradas e Bandeiras, for all to dig in and let loose.
I fly high with my feet on the ground
Entradas e Bandeiras is an album that was very successful.
We recorded it, the recording was great, when it was time to mix it,
Rita traveled to Europe
and we took care of the mixing of the album.
And she ended up not liking how the album turned out.
She complained.
I think that bothered Rita a little.
I see it as a phase, you know?
Not that the album is bad. The album went well.
It's curious, here in the autograph she gave me,
she wrote, "I like 'Coisas da Vida',"
because she doesn't like the rest of the album.
"Coisas da Vida," a song that Rita showed me on the piano
at her mother's house.
She said, "I'm writing this song."
She herself speaks of this song with a certain pride
in having written it on the piano.
When the moon appeared
"When the moon appeared,
no one dreamed more than me."
It was late
It's a song that Rita wrote when she found out her mother
was sick.
Once I get older
"Once I get older,
no one will need to tell me..."
Tell me
"No one will need to tell me
what it's like."
When it's time to leave
She always talked a lot about "Coisas da Vida,"
that is a very epic song.
And everything she was going through at the time.
I don't have anything to say That's why I say
Facing a life, a solo career.
I don't have much to lose That's why I gamble
"Coisas da Vida" is a turning point.
We look at each other And don't know if we stay or if we go
That's life
-This is my favorite song by Rita. -Why?
Because it's beautiful.
We look at each other And don't know if we stay or if we go
One day I was in Rio
and she called me and she said...
Daddy, you're a fool to cry
And I was a bit...
I understood, but not very well, but understood the whole thing.
Both sides of Eva
Since we were children, this communication the two of us we had,
we didn't need to speak.
I looked at her and knew, Rita was pregnant.
Cinderella
When the conversation ended I was very happy,
very emotional.
I always knew that I would be a father early
and that I would have three sons.
This is something the saints warned me about...
HUSBAND AND PARTNER
...very early on.
Something I was completely in heaven about...
-I was two months... -And you were in love...
So in love, it was delicious.
So I wasn't using anything, it was that hippie thing.
The greatest thing, my God, the fruit of my womb, a real hippie.
You don't even have to be a hippie, that's how it is.
So, about seven bikers arrived with...
With motorcycles and leather jackets, and they said,
"We came to get a kilo of marijuana that you have here in this house."
And then...
RITA IN PRISON
Someone told the police she had drugs in her house,
they found some drugs there and arrested Rita.
They went to my house after arresting her.
The police went to my room, I went out and saw Rita with my father.
Then we went to the street.
When we got to the street there was a police van, a huge car,
the FBI went there, like, a rock singer from Brazil
maybe accused of international trafficking.
RITA LEE IN FEMALE PRISON
It was a very shocking event.
It was a strange, wrong thing.
They planted evidence, they did.
They were there, like, "Found it."
We were always very worried about the police, drugs and all,
because we were living this terror, you know?
It was a full dictatorship,
so no one knew exactly what could happen.
I was released, we were held there for two days and then we left.
And Rita stayed.
But the causes are not these.
JOURNALIST
They are more political, if you notice.
During the Mutantes era,
a Rita fan was shot dead by an officer inside the show.
And there was a shot...
ASSEMBLY DESPISES POLICE VIOLENCE
And that human tide moved away
and, from the stage, I saw the body of a boy in the venue.
And around that time, a lady came
and said to her it was her son who died,
and the police said he was causing a mess outside the show.
She said all I had to do
to bring justice to her son, who loved me and all,
was to go to court and testify,
saying that I saw her son's body inside the venue.
"Dear Rita, look deep into my son's eyes
and see the sadness of a grieving and suffering mother.
Tell me the truth,
it was for you that he died, wasn't it?
But it's not your fault.
I will always be your friend
and God will reward you for the truth."
So I went to the courthouse,
"Where was the body?" "Inside the venue."
"Are you sure?" "Yes."
"Goodbye." "Goodbye."
Days later, weeks later,
I was arrested.
It is believed that this was
one of the reasons why the police at the time
developed a certain antipathy, a grudge against Rita.
I was pregnant with Beto, we were married,
Roberto was still in Rio, playing with Ney.
We were rehearsing and Virgínia called me
and told me that Rita had been arrested.
I immediately got on a bus and came to São Paulo.
THREE WEEKS BEFORE RITA'S PASSING
"I didn't know you were coming to São Paulo on Sunday,
that's why I didn't put your name on the visitors list.
And besides, I look awful, imagine that.
I wouldn't even let you see me like that.
I don't know what's going to happen to me anymore,
because everyone who comes in tells me the story in a different way.
I'm already getting used to the idea of having my son in prison.
I want you to know that I don't intend to cling to you
or demand anything from you.
Besides everything, you're my best friend
and I'll never forget that.
Please take care of you, okay?"
But there is a whole context in this letter
that is transported to the present day.
It's a farewell letter.
RITA LEE IS STAYING IN PRISON
A YEAR OF HOUSE ARREST, RITA LEE'S CONVICTION
Rita was tried and sentenced to one year,
but then it became one year in a semi-open regime.
So, when Rita got out of prison, we went to live with her parents,
because her house had been completely destroyed by the police.
It started out in a very difficult financial situation.
She spent all her money on a lawyer, it was very complicated.
No money, no money, no money.
Then, for a short period of time,
they stayed in a very small apartment and Beto was born.
She focused
on motherhood.
And Roberto at that time, something I think is very important,
he comes in as a structure, of course, as a life partner,
husband, father of her son and all,
and also a business structure.
But I said it was not possible that she...
That she was in such a deplorable financial situation.
And then he also started as a manager at Refestança,
Rita's concert with Gilberto Gil.
Very close to Gilberto
We got together and worked with the two bands,
Tutti Frutti and Banda do Gil.
We sang and played in several places in Brazil.
Gil was very kind to her,
the helping hand she needed at that time.
It was very difficult for her to be accepted,
those who liked Rita Lee hid the fact that they liked her.
And I think that Gil's arrival helped a lot.
But none of the shows were recorded.
We only recorded at Maracanãzinho,
which had a large audience, whatever.
A mistake.
There is a certain swing, a movement,
the stage moves a little.
At a certain point, one of the fins fell onto the stage.
The show at Maracanãzinho was packed, really packed.
And at a certain time, the stage collapsed.
With the collapse of the stage in Rio, Refestança also ended.
After Refestança, Rita releases with Babilônia,
which would be Rita's last album
with Rita Lee and Tutti Frutti on the cover.
Babilônia was recorded...
It is from 1978, already produced by Guto Graça Melo.
But it was still the Rita...
For example, there was "Miss Brasil 2000,"
there were songs... It was more these things.
Roberto was working on this album.
I was taking care of the business side,
putting on shows, all that stuff.
The keyboard player left the band, I played the keyboard.
Then I joined and started playing too.
It's not a plane
It's not a star
That's the light of a UFO
And we wrote a song called "Disco Voador."
It was the first song we wrote together.
A UFO
Rita had always been into flying saucers.
I would still like to, I still dream...
Of being abducted by a flying saucer.
It was a theme that was part of this universe that she...
She saw a flying saucer, I never saw one.
Then Rita already had a mix
of rock and disco.
When the album came out,
the band saw it only said "Rita Lee" on the cover,
it didn't say "Rita Lee and Tutti Frutti,"
which was what we thought we were doing.
They hanged the Gardens of Babylon
Rita was recruited by the label, not Tutti Frutti,
but Rita Lee and Tutti Frutti didn't formally exist,
and they wanted to have "flight autonomy."
That's when I saw that she...
It was the beginning of separating Rita Lee as a solo artist
and there is no band anymore.
My health is not like iron
But my nerves are made of steel
You split up with Rita Lee
because you didn't want to go so commercial...
-What is going on? -It's not quite like that,
it's just we're a band playing rock with Rita,
so...
I wanted Tutti Frutti to take the path of being a real rock band,
just rock and roll.
And then we split up.
The clown laughs while the people cry And the show goes on
Carlini felt a bit threatened,
thinking he would leave the band, that they would kick him out,
so he ended up registering the name Tutti Frutti in his name.
Rita was... She didn't forgive him.
The band remained with us.
And this band came to be called Cães e Gatos.
From the moment Roberto joined, Rita began to have huge success.
During the time Rita was pregnant with João,
we started playing, playing, playing.
Lots of love, lots of music, lots of creative things.
You were already pregnant, you were gestating?
I was huge, I recorded with the guitar up here.
And didn't it interfere with the entire recording process?
No, on the contrary, it gave me a fantastic sensitivity.
Everything was on the surface, I felt everything I sang,
so it was way better.
This is the guitar I used to write "Mania de Você."
It would stay by the bed
and in an afternoon inspired by a lot of passion...
We were in the bedroom
and we were in a state of grace.
I started playing.
And Rita...
My dear, you make
My mouth water
And it went on.
Wearing costumes
Taking off your clothes
Dripping with sweat
From kissing so much
Imagining so much
Imagining what?
Crazy things
So nice!
When Rita comes
and sings, "The love through telepathy
dripping with sweat from so much kissing,"
it's a woman who takes the reins of sex, pleasure, orgasm.
We make love through telepathy
None of that existed, and Rita was already all of that.
On the floor, in the sea, on the moon In the melody
She would leave her bedroom door ajar for people to peek in
and that is brilliant.
Nothing better than doing nothing
Just to hang around with you
So we see on this album Roberto's presence,
there with Rita from beginning to end.
And a love, a lifestyle, a daily routine that began to inspire Rita a lot.
My mouth water
"Mania de Você" was the bridge, it was the key.
And then...
It never stopped.
Come kiss me
My sweet vampire
Under the moonlight
One day I went to Rio to do a show.
And then when I came back, she had written "Doce Vampiro,"
and I was this sweet vampire.
Always thinking
I was never a hot woman,
but I always knew very well how to express
what a hot woman feels and what causes her sexuality.
It is a sensual record.
In fact, that's where she says women also have to cum,
not just men.
When she says, "Give me the pleasure of having pleasure with me,"
she calls out the guy and says, "It's not just you, darling."
None of this matters
I'll open the door
So you can come in
Kiss my mouth
This album would change Rita's career forever,
and would also present Rita's new path as...
As a pop star in Brazil.
It was very important,
because it was the first album we made and...
We inaugurated a new type of sound,
repertoire, and formation of musicians.
It was made in a very good atmosphere
because I used to work with one band, a set group of people,
and on this album I invited people, I invited musicians,
I even had the opportunity to meet fantastic people,
studio professionals.
"Guto" Graça Mello's production.
I was a producer-fan, you know?
It's different from the producer who is...
Creating, setting up, assembling.
And he began to listen and understand
the richness of what was being produced musically.
Daddy, I don't smoke
Daddy, I don't drink
My only flaw is not being afraid Of doing what I like
An album that reaches people in this way:
Everybody happy, Rita and Roberto, with love, children.
Daddy!
It's very natural that "Lança Perfume" comes after this.
Gimme a break
I remember one day my father was in the dining room
and I played it on the piano that was in the dining room,
my father said, "Wow, this song will be a hit."
Sniff, girl, sniff all this popper
Disrupt It's impossible to remain immune
"Lança Perfume" was the first of the songs I like to call
"Rockarnival."
It has a rock feel, but it has a groove...
I know this face
It's carnival rock.
Turn me upside down
Do whatever you want with me
Get me down on my knees
Fill me with love
With love
It was so unique in Brazilian music,
that its genre is "Rita Lee."
Sniff
Sniff the popper
The popper was something that during carnival in Rio de Janeiro,
I remember people used it at parties
to get high and have fun and all.
And Rita sang "Lança Perfume" in a broader way,
telling the story of her parents.
My father was a huge Corinthians fan,
always carrying a radio,
and when Corinthians scored and won,
he would allow poppers in the house.
Sniff
Sniff the popper
"Lança Perfume."
-"Age rating..." -"Non-release."
"The song lyrics mentioned
use the expression 'Get me down on my knees,'
which, in such context, leaves room for a double meaning."
What would be a double meaning here? There isn't one.
Come here, darling Give me some ling
I'm a baby, I need lots of kisses
At the time, between 800,000 and 1 million records were sold.
And it was so, so successful,
that it became a huge hit in Brazil, of course.
And that was when Rita was also introduced to the world.
And at that time, which was a very intense time,
full of life, full of creativity,
perhaps we were
completely unprepared to live with the opposite side of all of this.
Rita has two sisters.
The oldest, Mary, and the middle sister, Virgínia.
The girls loved Mary, Mary was like a guru.
Mary knew what songs were popular at the time,
she watched the films that were only for people over 18
and told the two girls about them.
My older sister, Mary, was a film buff, she knew everything about cinema.
She was the one who brought these characters to Rita,
and then they would do these plays in the basement,
where they could, as Rita would say, let it all out.
She was so crazy and my father was very strict.
I stole the title of black sheep from her.
I think a lot of what Rita has become as an artist,
as a person, and what she shows on stage,
came a lot from Mary.
It was August, August 27th...
RITA'S SISTER
And Mary told me, "Tell Mom not to come because it's very cold today."
So I got home, called my mom, and gave her this message.
As soon as I hung up, the hospital called me.
She was already gone.
She already had health problems, she was taking some medication,
and she was a drinker.
She ended up being hospitalized and never left the hospital,
she didn't resist.
I think it was the first major encounter with death
that Rita had in her life, and it was quite disruptive.
It was the loss of a piece
of the whole family.
But soon after, Rita became pregnant with Antônio.
She always stops everything, as she always says,
the moment of pregnancy is always sacred.
While Rita was pregnant with Antônio,
we wrote and started recording Saúde.
I'm fed up with all the gossip
Excuse me, but I'll go crazy
I want to be healthier
The album Saúde has a strong connection with a time
when we wanted to get very healthy
in order to have a healthy child.
All I know is that I'll take Better care of myself
And Antônio was born alongside
the release of Saúde.
So, on August 6, 1981,
the same day my mother was born,
the same day the bomb went off in Hiroshima,
and the same day Andy Warhol was born.
So, a day full of events of maximum magnitude.
While I'm alive, with all my grace
I still might make a lot of people happy
I was born in 1981,
it already had that maximum frequency, that was always my reality,
I don't remember at any time doing something in a public place
with other people, and it being a normal experience.
You and Roberto convey the image of a healthy family.
How do you achieve this? How do your children view your music?
The kids love it. Rock is kid's business.
It's pretty obvious, no?
And Roberto and I share everything,
all the business of taking care of the house,
the music thing and taking care of the kids at the same time.
The dictatorship had its eyes on Rita.
Every time Rita became more successful, their eyes turned to Rita.
Rita was the composer whose lyrics
were most vetoed by censors.
Saúde was Rita's album that had the most banned songs.
BANNED
If you see in this document, it is a general document,
they only managed to release three from here.
-"Favorita..." -Unbelievable.
"Galinhagem," which became "Tititi,"
and "Afrodite," which became "Banho de Espuma."
The themes we talked about were not so political,
but more about habits and customs.
"We examined the aforementioned lyrics
and found they contain vulgar terms,
phrases with malicious and coarse connotations,
as well as insinuations of sexual relations."
They were lyrics that spoke of love,
that spoke of passion, that spoke of sex.
It sounds more like motel music.
I've been told I'm a motel musician. I say thank you very much.
Because that's where you make love.
But there was no woman talking about these topics,
Rita was the first.
A personality with a very unique, very rich characteristic.
Rita arrived to break many paradigms,
many barriers.
She always did the things she wanted.
Imagine the topics Rita touched on.
In many songs...
In "Cor de Rosa Choque," she brings that up.
The two sides of Eva
The beauty and the beast
A smile of someone who asks for nothing
I had never heard anyone say something like that in Brazilian music.
Women are strange creatures
"Women are strange creatures, they bleed every month."
MUSICIAN
Who said that besides Rita Lee?
A sixth sense bigger than reason
I think Ritinha paved the way for female singers.
And she opened up space,
perhaps without even knowing she was opening it.
And speak truths that could not be said.
Autonomous, free,
rebellious,
accepted as a woman, creator,
all these things helped many women in Brazil.
So don't provoke me
I'm wearing bright pink
So don't provoke me
I'm wearing bright pink
Then after Saúde, came Rita Lee e Roberto de Carvalho,
that's the name of the album,
and it was Rita's first album with Roberto on the cover.
A cover that has a lot to do with a self-image
that is idyllic and pleasurable
that we have of ourselves.
This is the cover that is inspired by Fellini,
E la nave va,
look at the two of them in that plastic pool.
We are in the water,
I am hugging her...
HUSBAND AND PARTNER
And she is happy with a flower in her hair.
This record easily sold three million copies.
In the darkness of the cinema
Eating mint drops
Away from any troubles
Closer to a happy ending
Rita was extremely happy...
And blessed too.
Do you know what I was? I was aware of my happiness.
I was knowing that I am happy, I know that I am happy.
How long have you been touring Brazil with this show?
Look, we started in January, we did North and Northeast,
we're coming to São Paulo, then we'll go to the South,
we'll go to central Brazil, so I think it will take a long time.
Close to the 82, 83 tour, which was already planned to start,
Elis dies,
her great friend.
And then comes the death of Rita's father.
I fell to rock bottom, the clown went to rock bottom,
there was no way to be funny.
I didn't even want to be funny, I wanted to cry as much as I could.
She started with what she calls 'the takings,'
she took things to forget what was happening
and be able to carry on with the show,
to be able to move forward with the work.
A period of complete drug abuse,
especially when my father and mother died.
I cried
The "takings," as she says, ended up taking Rita to a hospital,
what we would call "rehab" today.
And Rita, with her characteristic sense of humor, called it a "hospice."
When you lose control of your drug use...
CORINTHIANS' PLAYER
If you continue on that same path, it will lead to death.
So, I didn't do a show for about four years,
I made records for the label, that repetitive thing with Roberto,
that sort of thing,
and the critics attacked me and I was...
I was so fragile.
And I fell, I fell hard.
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday, my dear Happy birthday to you
Yay!
Our parents' profession is a very intermittent business,
they don't go to work at nine and leave at five every night.
Remember when we went to school, at six we were leaving home,
and Mom and Dad were coming from the studio?
I only understood the difference at school,
when you start to spend time with other friends,
and you spend the weekend at their place and you see,
"Oh right, so the alpha figure in families is rarely a woman."
Father and mother at breakfast, I don't remember them at the table.
-A normal family. -And when friends came to our house,
they were a bit stunned by how different it was.
They spent weekends traveling, everyone together,
our parents worked on the weekends, so there were these differences, but...
I think in a way they are normal people too.
And in that sense they were making the sacrifices everyone makes,
all families make.
Rita was a very family-oriented person, very close to her family, very close,
but that family period was quite turbulent.
Death of father, death of mother, death of sister,
a time to think, a time to cry.
And I didn't want to share this with people,
my character, Rita Lee,
is very cheerful, very happy, she didn't want to be crying around.
I've never seen her...
SON
She never put herself as the victim of these situations.
She always finds a way
to make fun of anything and any situation.
Why is she eating out of a plate?
She is the mother of three children and all this madness is happening,
in the midst of all this, managing to have a house,
a home, being a responsible mother,
while all of this is happening... That's very difficult.
But you have many facets, right?
Because you have a mother side, a professional side, a side...
All mixed together, the writing, the rock, the shows.
How do you manage all of that?
I don't.
She made album after album,
she had a record contract that she had to fulfill,
she had the tours,
year after year without being able to take a vacation,
and while she was on tour, her father died,
then she was on tour, her great aunt died,
or she was on tour, her mother died.
It was a decline...
BETO LEE SON
...in the family life and in their life as a couple,
when my mother really started to have problems with alcohol.
When I feel a bit rejected
I feel a lump in my throat
A moment for Rita to become a little more introverted.
And then a more difficult phase began for Rita
and we started to drift apart a little, because I had quit drugs.
Poor me for being like this
Then came a time when we...
We ended up living in two different apartments.
-I kept taking drugs and he didn't. -It wasn't because of that.
He's embarrassed about that.
Your schedules were incompatible, is that it?
It's not just that, it's also...
-I was a real pain. -It's not that.
I didn't think it was good to be among the boys so I'd go out.
You left me hanging
She was entering this depressive state, and I think that for this state,
these drugs that were part of the beginning of her life,
the LSD, the acid,
they didn't have much purpose,
she needed relief.
Deep down always alone
Following my path
We felt the need for each one to do
what they wanted without interference from the other.
Roberto started producing his own album, a solo album,
so Rita called me, she said she didn't want to play alone.
Let's play together? Very simple, guitar and vocals.
I want to introduce you to Alexandre.
That's where Bossa 'n' Roll really originated.
WITH A STOOL AND A GUITAR
It's an album made entirely of guitars,
it's a mix of bossa nova, a typically Brazilian music,
with rock and roll.
In the end of all, I see my heart
People have no idea of her ability
and her ease playing the guitar,
her sense of tuning, rhythm, and definition was wonderful.
Poor me for being a romantic
Well, Bossa 'n' Roll started as therapy.
She had been estranged from my father.
My mother went to live on the other side of the city.
And Bossa 'n' Roll was a solo concert.
I cry until I'm dried up of all the hurt
And then, one day,
at a show where she must have been feeling a bit anxious,
she saw a little bottle of those whiskeys
they have in the minibar
and took a shot to calm down.
She wanted to ease some of the pain she was feeling.
I think that's where alcohol and tranquilizers came in.
And when she was in these altered states,
it wasn't her, she was truly unrecognizable.
The famous Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
one left and the other came in.
I thought... I said, "Someone has to stay with her"
because otherwise...
Too bad you didn't want me
...something might happen.
I almost killed myself
You were little, João was little, and I wasn't that old myself.
Hey, ho
It's so hot, it's so hot
These were the last shows of Bossa 'n' Roll
and she already had some ideas for other things,
for a different album.
She ended up making an album in 1993.
A solo album, without Roberto again.
Dressed to kill
During my menopause
It was a time she was separated from Roberto,
and I don't know why and I didn't even ask.
Separation of bodies, not of soul and spirit.
Then we have this album from 1993, also called Rita Lee.
It was going to be called Big Mama,
but at the last minute she changed it, I don't know why.
Produced by Rita, it's a very 70s album.
My son told me, Mom...
Today is tomorrow
That tutti-frutti dream, Mom
Became a mint chaos
Sometime later she invited me to do some shows with her.
We played talk shows, Hebe Camargo.
One of your sons is on the record.
This is Beto, I wrote this song based on the things he tells me.
Computers feeling pain
The virus will strike
We're feeling existential munchies
Mom, I want some milk
Beto Lee Carvalho, your son, is he also part of the band?
He is so good, that boy. Fifteen years old, so cute.
He's got a 50s style, kind of like Chuck Berry.
So good, a little raw on the guitar, I like a raw guitar,
but a nice swagger, he holds up well, I think...
Next year I'll make a Menudo out of my family and then retire.
See, Mary Amélie? That's how life is.
Welcome to Sodom and Gomorrah
Here lies your beautiful city
You are a prisoner in the dungeon
She was already pretty crazy at that time.
She drank a lot,
she led a very lonely life.
Direct call to the bitch
We were in a very...
ANTONIO LEE SON
In a problematic moment.
Every woman wants to be loved,
every woman wants to be happy.
The frequency at which these things were happening
was increasing.
And I... I...
I want it too!
Because every woman wants to be happy.
Every woman wants to be loved.
It's not that she was becoming a nicer version of herself,
she was becoming a more aggressive and brutish version.
Every woman
On the other hand, I couldn't take it anymore,
I just wanted it to end.
Until that accident.
We had a house in upstate São Paulo which was a kind of family refuge.
This house had a wooden staircase
and she was there in that house one day, alone,
she had drunk a little, it was raining a lot,
and she went down those stairs and she slipped because of the rain
and she fell to the side that didn't have a handrail.
The handrail was on the right side, she fell to the left.
She was in a deplorable state, that fall was awful.
And I remember the whole process, her face was swollen,
it wasn't just her jaw that got broken,
some doctors didn't want to operate, they didn't have the courage.
Then we found a team that did.
They had to open it here, pull it, put something here...
They opened both sides.
They made a cut from the center of the head, from behind,
detached one side of her face.
-Jesus... -Detached the other side.
Completely mad.
This event on the balcony was what brought us together again.
I asked Rita to marry me
and we got married.
Interesting times...
Roberto, receive this ring...
-As a sign of my love... -As a sign of my love...
-And fidelity. -And fidelity.
Amen.
You are married.
I am a lucky person,
that I have by my side, not behind me, by my side,
the man of my life.
I thought it was a way
for me to show how much I loved her.
As much as I've loved Roberto for 21 years,
it feels like it all started again.
Despite the accident, despite everything...
She continued to be my other half.
How am I going to make a Rita Lee album with a pin?
Will this become an impediment to her singing?
And I have a little tic, a very funny tic,
I call it a typewriter, it goes right and comes back, again and again.
Doctors said she might not be able to sing again.
Defender of bottles and pills
-Wonderful. -You are the beauty of us crazy people
We recorded in Los Angeles.
We went together, we spent a long time there.
And it came out crystal clear.
This album was made on tape,
there is no technological assistance to tune, move the voice or anything,
what you hear there is what she sang,
exactly what she sang.
Saint Rita of Sampa
Rita represents something different
from the established,
she shows she can do anything.
Did you tell your viewers? You didn't?
-No. -I told Roberto.
-Really? -Can I tell them?
-What was his reaction? -Here's the thing...
I'm getting married to Hebe Camargo.
The more it is forbidden
The more it makes sense to break the law
Sex drive is not a crime
Fight against the lack of education
The song you're about to sing, "Obrigado Não,"
its story is fantastic, tell us about it.
It's a controversial song, my love.
We talk about abortion, gay marriage,
and drugs, of course.
Separate the wheat from the chaff
That two-faced friend
And regarding drugs, I think,
I say in the song, "Say no to drugs, but be polite, say no, thank you."
Thank you, no
She was an example of freedom
within this square country we live in,
which is now even more square than before.
Thank you, no
Then with Santa Rita de Sampa there was a huge tour,
very successful too.
Can you give me this little baby?
But I think that at that stage, they entered a more domestic phase,
and went to live
in their house on the farm, so they enjoyed that moment,
just them in a new place.
And here on the farm we recorded two albums.
This is Balacobaco,
it's the one with "Amor e Sexo," it's a great album.
Rita, don't do it sentence by sentence, it becomes very...
You have to sing a little.
Love without sex is friendship
Sex without love
Is desire
For those who lived in Brazil at the time,
you would go anywhere and hear "Amor e Sexo."
Sex is two
Soap operas, radio...
"Amor e Sexo" was all over the place.
It was definitely the most played song of the year.
Love is soap opera
Sex is cinema
Love is Christian
Sex is pagan
Love is land property
Sex is an invasion
And Balacobaco once again went platinum,
and is a quality album, a journey through genres.
Love is Bossa Nova
Sex is carnival
After Balacobaco, there were many shows, and then came Reza.
And so on, and so forth
Oh, love
Sex
Between Balacobaco and Reza,
from 2003 to 2012,
a few things happened, including the birth of my daughter.
The arrival of a child really...
A grandchild changes the dynamics of a family, it's inevitable.
And I think that she, not only for Iza, I think she did it for herself,
she really...
She opened a new chapter.
I quit drinking
She had had a very severe crisis
and it was the first time we admitted her to a clinic,
outside of São Paulo.
I quit smoking
I quit drinking
And she talked to a psychologist,
it was the first time in her life that she opened up
to someone other than her family to help her.
That little devil
I think there was also a certain fatigue from staying in the same place.
That's when my mom really
ended her struggle with alcohol...
The best songs I've ever made were on drugs,
and the worst ones too.
The downers, those things she ingested,
once and for all, when my daughter was born.
I haven't taken anything, I'm sober.
It's been ten years since I...
Have had total control over prohibited drugs.
Because if I didn't have control,
I'd end up back in the hospice.
For me, Reza is the ultimate album.
I had the feeling when recording Reza that it would be the last album,
and it ended up being that.
And Rita said the song was too country,
so I went for doo-wop, which is...
May God protect me
From your envy
May God defend me
From your voodoo
They recorded in their home studio, with the Moog,
they set their own schedule,
so there was no corporate pressure to deliver a record.
A new phase was beginning, which is reaching 60 years.
Roberto called me and asked me to mix the album for them.
I had no input into the production, nothing,
it was already done, Roberto did everything.
Until after that came Multishow.
You can see that she gave her all,
she left her life on stage.
A fine day I decided to change
And do all I wanted to do
Rita is going a mile a minute.
Up and down, plays, stands up, sings, makes jokes and all.
She's not a static artist who sits on a stool and plays.
No, Rita Lee was never that.
I know I was born to find out
Also around that time I'd been hearing this "I want to quit" talk.
For a long time.
But now I'm so serene,
I live in the middle of the woods,
so I'm like... Which is good too, it's a dynamic:
either 8 or 80, either I'm partying,
rocking the hell out of it,
or I'm a...
Country bumpkin, down to earth, taking care of the garden,
something really...
It's possible to stop, yes, it's possible to stop with the shows.
I remember those last shows.
It was a great moment of celebration and all that,
but as soon as she left the stage,
she would drop the microphone and collapse on the floor
from physical exhaustion.
I remember the security guard picking her up,
lifting her off the floor, and taking her to the dressing room.
From jumping around like crazy for two hours.
Now you should come along
But on the day that the show at Circo Voador took place,
Rita, on her own, decided to grab the microphone
and say that it was the last show.
I wanted to say that...
This is the penultimate show,
but I consider it the last.
It's that moment you say, wow!
I remember thinking, "Wow, all of a sudden like this?"
The last of the tour,
and I'm retiring...
From the stage.
It's time.
Retiring...
It would be good, I'm 67 years old, it's good!
It was so good!
There is nothing more dignified
than knowing when it's time to hang up the boots.
Rita, we love you!
Come.
Now he won't come.
I think she understood
that even for her own mind, she needed to slow down a little.
Change the question
Why
Change the question
Why not
But then João did a beautiful job remixing our songs.
He introduced us to Gui Boratto, who is a DJ,
and I had this recording of "Change,"
and we decided to pass the recording on to him.
Lost in your mind you will find
The meaning of life
They were like two kids in the studio,
getting back some of the excitement and joy and happiness,
the fun they had when they were younger.
From life to death just like
A blazing flame
Change
TWO WEEKS BEFORE RITA'S PASSING
Did you read this letter?
-You don't know this letter? -No.
-I read it? -Yes.
"Beloved of my heart..."
"I wish I knew how to say beautifully to each of you
what I feel deep down in my heart,
but I express myself better..."
I can't do it. I can't.
"But I express myself better by writing about the pride and luck I have
in being surrounded by four gentlemen who make me realize I am the most...
...complete woman in the world."
Today,
together with my love
and my other three loves,
I am one of the happiest people
on this planet.
People say I'm crazy
She didn't feel well one day,
so she went to her doctor,
the ENT specialist who took care of her voice and all,
and this doctor did some tests and thought something was off.
So when she went to the doctor to see about it
she had a certain... I think she had bronchitis.
So that's when the doctor saw
she had something in her lung.
It was in the first half of 2021.
Well, it was like an atomic bomb in the family.
NO SMOKING
When the pandemic started,
I received signs, like, to stop smoking.
So I read the newspaper and it said, "Someone stopped smoking."
I was on the road, and on the back of a truck said, "Stop smoking."
Watching TV,
some actress said, "I need to stop smoking."
And I, being that tough Capricorn bitch, started smoking three times as much.
I'm so crazy
Because I'm happy
"You, Roberto,
are the cutest boyfriend there is,
always elegant and discreet,
you have to be very manly to put up with a scandalous woman,
an ex-convict, five years older,
not always easy to deal with."
Crazier is the one who says
"You, Beto, will always be my little blond mosquito,
the one who at a time when my life was going through difficult times
took care of me with tenderness
and respect without ever judging me."
It's much better
Not being normal
I cried so much.
I told Roberto that I couldn't take it. I can't get over it.
Of course, she already started the treatments,
but the cells ended up returning somehow.
But in those moments I'm the kind of person
who takes a step forward, I go...
I help.
If they pray a lot
"You, Juca,
my dark-haired little boy,
are a more withdrawn guy, but...
no less bold when you notice some injustice.
Just like me, your great passion is animals
and I understand you perfectly.
Thank you for being such an enlightened and blessed person."
Yes, I'm so crazy
With me the camera...
There is a woman who has always been the center of the family,
who has that strength,
and we think that nothing will happen to her.
I don't want another life.
Seeing her physically fragile
is very difficult.
"Tui, my youngest,
you, like a good Leo, are a sunny figure.
Since you were little, you've been a bit grumpy, independent,
always knowing what you wanted.
Thank you for being such a zen person and a good talker.
I completely understand why girls find you seductive."
I am happy
"Thank you, Beto, Juca and Tui,
for being born from me, and thank you, Roberto,
for being their father.
God bless us and protect us, Mom."
We stop being children
when we become aware for the first time of death,
that we will die one day.
Everything that is alive, everything that exists in the universe
is transformed,
and our transformation is in spirit.
We are here for her.
There's not much to do, we must prepare
for what is to come.
We must prepare ourselves and there's no preparation for this.
No preparation.
I had an easygoing life
I liked to enjoy the good things
IBIRAPUERA PLANETARIUM MAY 10, 2023
Lord, how long I spent without knowing
Oh, that's when my dad said to me
Daughter
You're the black sheep of the family
Rita is everything to me.
She is the reason I exist,
the reason I breathe, the reason I wake up,
the reason I go to sleep.
Baby, baby
It's pointless to cry
Her existence for me will be eternal,
her presence for me will be eternal,
and my love for her will be eternal.
Death is not a punishment,
death is going back home.
How are you
Just like me
An ordinary person
A son of God
She leaves so much, she...
Rita...
Impossible.
A person who was born with an incredible light.
A person who challenged, a transgressor...
Someone so, so beautiful.
How are you
She leaves this extraordinary role of a feminist leader.
A great reference for philosophy of life,
ideology,
a path to follow, and identification.
A strong woman.
This sinking canoe
Broke down rowing against the tide
My mother is a brilliant person, she is very different,
you can see her whole creative side.
Life, existence, music,
poetry,
dream.
I don't want luxury or trash
I dream to be immortal, my love
No one will replace Rita as the Queen of Rock.
Brazil's biggest rock star.
She's famous for a song lyrics that gave strength
to someone who was going through tough times,
so I feel privileged to be the son
of someone who brought that to so many people.
An ordinary person
Another son of God
In this sinking canoe
Rowing against the tide
She made a lot of people happy.
I don't believe in anything
I'm sure she made a lot of people happy.
I even doubt faith
Yeah...
I don't want luxury or trash
My dream is to be immortal, my love
I don't want luxury or trash
That's it.
I want health to enjoy the end
I don't want luxury or trash
My dream is to be immortal, my love
I don't want luxury or trash
I want health to enjoy the end