My aunt, Odete Dehn, a great artist, an actress from the old TV Tupi (Brazil), successful singer, dancer, painter, among many other virtues, was responsible for starting me in my musical career.
At just 15 years of age, in 1957, she composed a song talking about the pain of retreatants from the north and northeast from Brazil, who ventured out of drought and hunger, seeking a better life in big cities, and then fell into great disappointment in reality of the metropolises.
The beautiful lyrics were written by her mother (my late grandmother), Virginia Colla.
A few years ago I had the pleasure of orchestrating this song and now I had the honor of recording the song with the great counter-tenor Renato Costa.
The result is in this video that seeks to bring this story to life, which is still a reality in Brazil today.