She has a puppy she refers to as her “daughter” - a brown Shih Tzu that resembles an Ewok. Late afternoon sunlight fills her living room, with a view of the Dois Irmaos mountains that tower over the beaches of Ipanema and Leblon. I'm the only one who does it how you like (only one who does it how you) You better lock your phone (oh) And look at me when you're alone (you're alone, you're alone) Won. Last year she moved back to Rio, where she’s close to family. But there's somethin' 'bout the way you look tonight ('bout the way you look tonight) Makes me wanna make 'em jealous. Gratitude washed over her for having stayed. “The first time, it was the city/The second, the pier and eternity.”īebel said she was moved to see that, even years after vanishing from the scene, her dad was still improving upon songs he’d sung for decades. Rather, it was a discovery, which he demonstrated: an even softer delivery to two verses of the bossa nova classic “Wave”:
It wasn’t a grim medical diagnosis, a long-harbored confession nor a change to his will. Guitar in hand, João implored his daughter to stay, saying there was something very important he needed to share. He was a critic of vibrato and exuberance, Bebel said, adding that he would have enjoyed listening to the 18-year-old Billie Eilish.īebel recalled an instance, four years ago, when she was about to leave for Rio’s airport to fly home to New York. João, who came of age in an era of syrupy-voiced crooners, went against the grain and sang quietly - often with little more than a whisper. The most valuable thing Bebel says she learned from her father was the way he used vocal dynamics.
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She sings that she’ll have to try to teach him in this half of life, a reversal of roles from their first act when he knew how to do everything. The song features a somber, shifting bed beneath a plea she be allowed to provide care. João famously became reclusive in his final years. “I was just trying to organize his life so he could have better living, because he was abandoned,” she said. She had been shuttling back and forth to Brazil to appear before a judge and trying, with limited success, to convey to interested parties that the move had nothing to do with money, and instead ensuring a means to pay her father’s basic bills. She wrote “O Que Não Foi Dito” for her father at the end of 2017, when she was about to receive power of attorney. The song “Tão Bom” (“So Good”), a dreamscape of strings, is about reconnecting with Bartlett after years apart. Vincent, Norah Jones and Florence + the Machine. She recorded “Agora”, her first album in six years, in New York with her friend Thomas Bartlett, who has produced acts such as St.
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