{"id":1802,"date":"2009-08-24T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2009-08-24T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T08:05:00","slug":"an_elis_regina_trove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/08\/an_elis_regina_trove\/","title":{"rendered":"An Elis Regina Trove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world may have known about it, but I just stumbled upon a rich cache of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elis_Regina\"target=\"_blank\">Elis Regina <\/a>video clips on <em>YouTube<\/em>. They come from a 1973 Brazilian television special. The program seems to have been available on a DVD that quickly disappeared from the<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/regina_elis_emplenove_101b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"regina_elis_emplenove_101b.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/08\/regina_elis_emplenove_101b-thumb-138x135-9468.jpg\" width=\"138\" height=\"135\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span> market. Amazon, CD Universe, Netflix and several other sources say it is currently unavailable and, according to Amazon, &#8220;we don&#8217;t know when or if this item will be back in stock.&#8221; That is a pity, because in the clips Regina, at age 28, is brilliant in every song, giving clear evidence why she was beloved in Brazil and idolized by singers and musicians throughout the world.<br \/>\nThe video of &#8220;Ladeira da Pregui\u00c3\u00a7a,&#8221; a happy song, is a good introduction to the series of 20 clips. They run the range of emotions and expressivity that Regina commanded to an extent equaled by few musicians in any idiom. The trio is headed by pianist Cesar Camargo Mariano, her second husband and the father of her daughter <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maria_Rita\"target=\"_blank\">Maria Rita<\/a>, now also a star in Brazil. The bassist and drummer are not identified. Elis Regina died in 1982 at the age of 36.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gNXz5flgWhQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gNXz5flgWhQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=A1743FE1E6458706&#038;search_query=Elis+Regina\"target=\"_blank\">This is a link<\/a> to the complete Elis Regina <em>YouTube<\/em> collection from the TV special. Be prepared to fall in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world may have known about it, but I just stumbled upon a rich cache of Elis Regina video clips on YouTube. They come from a 1973 Brazilian television special. The program seems to have been available on a DVD that quickly disappeared from the market. Amazon, CD Universe, Netflix and several other sources say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}