Rita Lee Jones. Irreverent. Always ahead of her time – and, at heart, a romantic disguised as a storm. In this Candlelight: Tribute to Rita Lee concert, her legacy is given new life in string arrangements that illuminate every nuance, every whispered irony, every poem hidden between the lines – and every smile she drew from us with the same ease with which she reinvented everything around her.
From the delicacy of “Mania de Você” to the nostalgic charm of “Lança Perfume“, from the delicious debauchery of “Agora Só Falta Você” to the eternal affection of “Amor e Sexo“, the melodies are revisited with elegance, in versions that reveal layers of sound that you may never have felt before.
A love story between Rita Lee and Rio
Rio has always had a special fondness for Rita Lee’s sweet irreverence and good-humored rebelliousness. It was here that many of her most emblematic phases from the days of Novos Baianos and Secos & Molhados sharing the Rio scene with Os Mutantes in the 1970s, to memorable shows on Rio stages in the following decades.
And it was also in Rio that Rita played a leading role in moments that spanned generations: sold-out shows at the Canecão, nights of pure catharsis at Circo Voador, live broadcasts at festivals that showed Brazil – and the world – a free, vibrant and absolutely unique artist.
Candlelight: Tribute to Rita Lee
It’s a tribute that embraces fans of all generations who grew up with her, who discovered her on their parents’ records, who got to know her voice through soap operas, who fell in love with her freedom. Under candlelight, each song awakens a memory, each chord becomes a sensation – all in the heart of Rio, the city that has always welcomed her with open arms.
A tribute that reveals new colors of her work: sometimes intimate, sometimes incendiary, always unmistakable… When the first notes of “Ovelha Negra” take over the air, everything is suspended… it’s like going back to the moment when she taught us that being different is a gift.