10+ Songs That Were Based On Poems You Probably Didn’t Know

Brazilian popular music is known all over the world not only for its melodies or rhythm, but also for the richness of its lyrics. And it’s no wonder, since in addition to many good composers, we also have great poetry artists. And by the way, lyrics and melody come together even when one was not necessarily made for the other.

the team of awesome.club discovered several unusual partnerships with poems that were turned into songs. Check out some of these gems below.

where will you goby Ferreira Gullar, became music by the hands of Caetano Veloso and is one of many of his poems that were set to music by great names in MPB. where will you go won many versions, one of them in the voice of Adriana Calcanhoto.

Haroldo de Campos and his poetry galaxies also turned into sound in a poem set to music by Caetano Veloso. Fulô’s Circulado was a success and gave the name to a famous tour of the artist in the 90s.

friendly song is an old poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade that was meloded and recorded by Milton Nascimento.

A Pearl by Alice Ruiz, miracles is a poem that was set to music by Itamar Assunção, recorded by himself and by other names such as Zélia Duncan.

Rose of Hiroshimaa poem by Vinícius de Moraes set to music by Gerson Conradi, became a hit in the voice of Ney Matogrosso.

Another poem by Alice Ruiz that was set to music, this time it’s Almost anythingwhich became well known in the voice of Zeca Baleiro.

Some stanzas of poetry eastern woodsby Waly Salomão, from Bahia, were turned into music by Adriana Calcanhotto from Rio Grande do Sul. your most secret name was released by the singer on the album Tide🇧🇷

Bráulio Tavares is a writer and researcher of fantastic literature, but he has also written some poems. One of them, The Martian Marcowas set to music by Lenine and released on his first album The day we will make contactfrom 1997.

The poem Lights, by Paulo Leminski, became music in the voice of Arnaldo Antunes. Both are known, each with their own art, for deconstructing ideas and patterns.

A classic of Brazilian rock, Mount Castle is a composition of frontman of the Urban Legion, Renato Russo. In the composition, the musician talks about love including part of chapter 13 of the book of Corinthians, in addition to Sonnet 11 by the poet Luiz Vaz de Camões.

Fagner is, perhaps, one of the Brazilian composers who most wrote and recorded poems. In 1982 he sang the poetry Fanaticismby Florbela Espanca, in a collection of poems set to music by himself.

Cazuza, the rock poet, also created melody for a poem by Clarice Lispector. the song is called May the God come and was released in the voice of Cássia Eller on her album debutin 1990.

So, which of these songs did you already know and did you know that they had their origin in great poems? Tell us! 🇧🇷