Nara Leão (pronounced LEE-yay-oh) was a celebrated Brazilian bossa nova and Tropicália pop singer in the 1960s. Her father had given her a guitar at age 12, and as a teenager in the late 1950s, she became friends with many of the singer-songwriters who were pioneering the bossa nova. The list included Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Ronaldo Bôscoli, João…
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