In 1975,
Maria Betânia commemorated ten years of career with a show with
Chico Buarque that was released on LP; this is the CD reissue. The album is historic, with classics like "Sinal Fechado" (Paulinho da Viola), "Foi Assim" (
Lupicínio Rodrigues), even "Gitâ" (by the late rocker
Raul Seixas), along with
Buarque's pearls "Olê Olá," "Sem Fantasia," "Sem Açúcar," "Com Açúcar E Com Afeto," and others.
Maria Betânia is the personification of the female depicted by
Buarque's poetry: intense, dramatic, fragile, powerful, sensuous, aggressive -- contradictory. ~ Alvaro Neder