Succession of the composer and producer Carlos Colla, at the São Francisco Xavier Cemetery, in CajuPedro Ivo / Agência O Dia
Rio The body of musician and composer Carlos Colla was buried this Saturday afternoon (14) at São Francisco Xavier Cemetery in Caju, Rio’s port area.
Family members and friends, including musician Michael Sullivan, Colla’s great songwriting partner, attended the funeral to pay their last respects.
Colla, author of several MPB hits, died this Friday morning (13) at the age of 78 after a cardiovascular arrest following pneumonia and kidney failure. He was hospitalized at Copa Star Hospital in Copacabana in the South Zone, where he underwent surgery to treat two aneurysms in his abdominal aorta.
The composer leaves behind three children. Carlos and Daniela from their first marriage and Laura from their two and a half year relationship with Miss Brazil Marisa Fully Coelho.
trajectory
Carlos de Carvalho Colla was born on August 5, 1944 in Niterói, in the Rio metropolitan area. He currently lives in the capital.
In the 1970s, he traded Law’s suit and sobriety for music and joined the band O Grupo as a guitarist. After one of the shows he met Roberto Carlos and asked for a song for the king. He promptly asked him for a song too. This is how “A Girlfriend” and “Negra” came about, compositions with Maurício Duboc that Roberto Carlos recorded in 1971.
Since then, more than two thousand songs have been recorded 40 of them recorded by the king, such as “Falando Sério” and “Passatempo”. Other hits include: “My vice is you”, “Mulher ideal” and “Além da cama” by Alcione; “Personagem”, “Meu disfarce” and “Será” by Fafá de Belém; “Your case is me” and “Your beast” by Joanna; “Tímida” by Clothing Nova, “Pede a ela” by Tim Maia; Among others, “Spotlight” by Cauby Peixoto and “VerdadeChinese” by Emílio Santiago.
honors
In the networks, the musician’s son Carlos Colla wrote: “You fought a lot and I saw it up close! Thank you for giving me life. You were so much more than the Carlos Colla they knew. You were our father and our idol! I admire you very much and thank God that you are here. Go with God and rest. I’ll always love you.”
The singersongwriter Daniela Colla also mourned her father. “You have always been my hero, my inspiration, an example of strength and determination. The songwriter of my life, a teller and singer of stories. I love you infinitely and forever Level of eternity with lots of light. I love you,” she wrote on social media.
Alcione, for whom Carlos composed several hits, published a tribute on her Instagram. “Brazilian music says goodbye to one of its greatest composers. I say goodbye to a friend who has given me the honor of recording great hits that have also built my career: “Meu Vício é Você”, “Além da Cama”, ” Don’t”. Think in Me”, “O Mundo é De Nós Dois”, “Delírios de Amor”, “If It Is Not Love”, “Amor Surreal” and many others are works by Carlos Colla that I always come across give all references go in peace,” the singer wrote.