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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1943-01-25
- Active to
- 2023-07-24
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Leny Andrade (Leny de Andrade Lima - Jan 1st, 1943 Rio de Janeiro) acquired a solid reputation as a singer and improviser, acknowledged by the many top musicians who have performed with her. Leny Andrade's eclectic style became better defined with the advent of bossa nova, through which she introduced jazz elements into her singing. Finally, she opted for a synthesis of samba-jazz that refutes much of the delicacy and attention to the lyrics as proposed by bossa nova, in favor of a more energeti
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Andrade
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Rio de Janeiro
- Place of death
- Rio de Janeiro
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- bossa nova
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Polydor
- Image
- 25º Prêmio da Música Brasileira (14005914587).jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
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- date of birth
- 1943-01-25
- Commons category
- Leny Andrade
- date of death
- 2023-07-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
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