Search for LIA DE ITAMARACA and her history and music;
"A composer/singer/dancer in the genres of ciranda, coco, and maracatu, Lia de Itamaracá in her 43-year career has become a major cultural reference for Pernambuco and Brazil, even if she has spent her life in the outskirts of the media. Her innumerable compositions were never written and she keeps them all in her head. One of the last representatives of the ciranda tradition, she has been living in poverty as the cooker at the public junior and high school of the Itamaracá island (near Recife, Pernambuco), as a tourist guide, and also doing local performances in bars and restaurants. Her stage name came from a broadly popular ciranda done as a tribute to her in 1962 by Teca Calazans, which went like "Essa ciranda quem me deu foi Lia/Que mora na Ilha de Itamaracá." …..”
The rest of the text, very interesting about Lia, written by Alvaro Neder, at All Music Guide, is here: http://www.mp3.com/artist/lia-de-itamaraca/summary/
