The singer, songwriter and speaker from Pernambuco Paulo DinizHe, owner of many MPB hits in the 1970s, died this Wednesday (22) at the age of 82. The information was first released by broadcaster Geraldo Freire radio newspaper.
The artist died of natural causes at his home around 7 a.m. The wake and funeral will take place this Thursday (23rd) in Recife and should be reserved for family and friends. Paulo Diniz leaves behind a wife, a daughter, two stepdaughters, three grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.
Born in Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Paulo Diniz was a household name in MPB between the 1960s and 1980s and the author of hits like “canoeist”, “A Beer to Distract”, “Put a Rainbow in Your Pitcher” and “I want to go back to Bahia”. It became one of the biggest record sellers in the early 1970s.
Paulo Diniz spent the last years of his life in Boa Viagem, South Zone of Recife. He stopped doing shows, but continued to compose. He was recently hospitalized for hemodialysis. Due to paralysis of his lower limbs, a result of schistosomiasis, he needed a wheelchair to get around.
In late 2019, he returned to the studio and recorded an unreleased song that he intended to release as a single. Click here to watch the latest interview with Paulo Diniz JC.
Paulo Diniz was announcer and broke into Jovem Guarda
His records sold a lot in the ’70s, but they’re out of print Photo: JC Picture
Born January 24, 1940, Paulo Diniz He soon discovered his talent for voice overs. At just 12 he worked at Rádio Difusora (now Rádio Jornal) in his hometown and moved to Recife in the early 1960s.
In the capital he managed to get hired Radio Journal do Comércio, from where he was fired after mispronouncing all the English words and names when replacing another presenter. Unemployed, he passed through cities like Caruaru and Fortaleza until he decided to go to Rio de Janeiro.
After a few years as an announcer at Rádio Globo, Paulo Diniz started appearing on the show Young guardpop the yehyehyeh”the crybaby“, by Edson Mello and Luiz Keller.
National hit songwriter
In partnership with friend to hateIn addition to hits such as “Pingos de Amor”, “Um Chope pra Distair”, “Piri Piri” and “Ponha um ArcoÍris na sua Moringa”, he also composed the protest anthem “Quero Voltar Pra Bahia”, a homage to Caetano Veloso. He released about 10 albums.
PaulIncidentally, was a tenant of the Villa Solar da Fossa in the South Zone of Rio, where artists such as Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Paulinho da Viola, Paulo Leminski, Odete Lara, Naná Vasconcelos, Glauber Rocha, Torquato Neto and Caetano Veloso lived.
Diniz He also set to music many Portugueselanguage poems by authors such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade (“E Agora, José?”), Gregório de Matos (“Definição do Amor”), Augusto dos Anjos (“Intimate Verses”), Jorge de Lima (“Essa Nega Fulô”) and Manuel Bandeira (“I’m going to Pasárgada”).
He did not record any albums between the late 1980s and the 1990s due to health problems that left him almost paralyzed. Paulo Diniz he contracted schistosomiasis while bathing in a river, probably inland from Minas Gerais, the country of his exwife, whom he married at the height of his success.
In conversation with JC In 2018 he said he intended to record an album of new material and named DJ Dolores and Maestro Forró as partners he would like to work with. “I made a lot of money, I spent it all, on champagne, women. I do not regret it. If I had a lot of money now, what good would it do?” he said.