Dorival caymmi statue liberty
Close up of statue of Dorival Caymmi, famous Brazilian musician, by the beach in Itapua - neighborhood where he used to live.
Dorival Caymmi Statue is the perfect place to begin your day of discovery in Copacabana..
Statue of Dorival Caymmi
“Anyone who doesn’t like samba isn´t a good person/Either they’re out of their mind or they have a lame foot.” The author of one of the most defining verses of our popular music, Dorival Caymmi, also created a musical genre – canção praiana (beach song), which continues to influence icons of Brazilian music.
Caymmi was one of the greatest figures of the “Golden Age” of Brazilian radio, both as a singer and a composer which was unusual at that time.
His music shaped the imagination of the population, capturing the simplicity of coastal life. Simplicity and sophistication, in fact, are defining attributes of Caymmi. As his son, Danilo, put it, he was “a man who knew how to use simplicity like no one else.” Or, as Dorival himself once wrote in a page of his notebook, according to Danilo, “passo a passo, passando, passo” (step by step, passing by, I pass) which practically sums up the way he lived his life.
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