Composer

Carlos Lyra

1933 – 2023

Active years (films on this site)

1962–1966

Genres

DocumentaryDrama

Schools and movements

Brazilian CinemaLatin American CinemaPolitical and Investigative Cinema

Directors worked with

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade2 films

Biography

Carlos Eduardo Lyra Barbosa was a Brazilian singer, and composer of numerous bossa nova and Música popular brasileira classics. He has also worked as a writer, with notable contributions to musical films such as Para Viver um Grande Amor and Intimidade. He and Antônio Carlos Jobim were the first two music composers, together with lyricists Vinicius de Moraes and Ronaldo Boscoli, to be recorded by João Gilberto on his first LP entitled Chega de Saudade (1959), which is referred to as the first generation of Bossa Nova.

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Awards and honours

International

• Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) 2008

2 films on this site

1. Garrincha: Alegria do Povo 1962 · Joaquim Pedro de Andrade · IMDb 7.0 · Composer
2. The Priest and the Girl 1966 · Joaquim Pedro de Andrade · IMDb 7.3 · Composer