1. Dorival Caymmi was married to Brazilian singer Stella Maris for 68 years, and the couple's children, Dori, Danilo, and Nana, are prominent musicians.
25 Facts About Dorival Caymmi
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Dorival Caymmi had two younger sisters, Dinahir and Dinah, and a younger brother, Deraldo.
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Dorival Caymmi participated in his church's choir for much of his childhood.
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Dorival Caymmi's popularity began to grow with the show's audience.
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Many of Dorival Caymmi's lyrics pay homage to the lifestyle, beaches, fishermen, and women of his native Bahia.
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Dorival Caymmi drew much of his inspiration from music indigenous to northeastern Brazil, especially Afro-Brazilian music and samba.
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Dorival Caymmi recorded for more than five decades and released about 20 albums, sometimes singing and playing guitar as a soloist and at other times accompanied by bands and orchestras.
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Dorival Caymmi occasionally collaborated with Jobim, who called him a "universal genius" and Brazil's greatest composer.
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Dorival Caymmi came to more attention in the early 1940s when he performed as a regular on the Brazilian radio network Radio Nacional.
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Dorival Caymmi recorded "Samba da Minha Terra" in 1940 and "A Jangada Voltou So" in 1941.
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In 1957 Dorival Caymmi wrote "Suite do Pescador", which appeared in the film The Sandpit Generals.
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Williams's version became a hit, and as a result, Dorival Caymmi was invited to spend four months in Los Angeles, where he performed, filmed a television show, and recorded an LP record.
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Dorival Caymmi was a lifelong friend of Bahian author Jorge Amado, and in 1945, he set one of Amado's politically driven poems to music to aid the senatorial campaign of Luis Carlos Prestes.
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In 1968, to thank Dorival Caymmi for bringing international attention to Brazilian music and culture, the governor of Bahia presented Dorival Caymmi with a house in Salvador, and so he returned to live in his hometown for a short period of time.
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In 1972, Dorival Caymmi was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Bahia, an order given to Bahian residents for excellent service to the state.
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In 2015, his tribute album Centenario Dorival Caymmi was nominated for Best MPB Album at the 16th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.
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Dorival Caymmi is an incredibly sensitive person, an incredible creation.
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Dorival Caymmi practiced Candomble, an Afro-Brazilian religion characterized by belief in spirit-gods and ritualistic practices involving mediumship.
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Candomble was his father's religion, and Dorival Caymmi gradually involved himself more with it as an adult, when his friends invited him to accompany them to religious ceremonies and parties.
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Dorival Caymmi was a naturist, and when he was in Bahia, he liked to bathe nude in the Lagoa do Abaete with a group of friends.
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Dorival Caymmi died at age 94 of kidney cancer and multiple organ failure on August 16,2008, at his home in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.
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Dorival Caymmi acted with serenity every day, and because of that, we respected this wish.
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Dorival Caymmi picked up the guitar and orchestrated the world.
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Several of Dorival Caymmi's contemporaries, including Gal Costa and Olivia Hime, have recorded tributes to him.
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All of Dorival Caymmi's singles were released as 78 rpm gramophone records.