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Margareth Menezes
Margareth Menezes da Purificação is a Brazilian singer and politician from Salvador, Bahia. Her style is considered axé but her music also steers into samba and MPB territory, at times drawing on African rhythms and reggae. Menezes is best known in Brazil for the debut single "Faraó" 1988 of Olodum and for "Me Abraça e Me Beija", a major hit in 1990. She also scored another hit with "Dandalunda", a song which became the unofficial anthem of the 2003 Salvador carnival. Menezes achieved superstardom in her native Bahia, but only moderate success in the rest of Brazil. She is famed for energetic live performances and regularly tours and performs at carnival celebrations. In 1990, one of Menezes's tracks "Elegibô" was used in the Mickey Rourke film Wild Orchid. This prompted Island Records in the US to release a compilation album of some of her older material from Brazil on their subsidiary label, Mango. The album, simply titled Elegibô, was an instant hit, reaching # 1 on the Billboard World Music chart at a time when David Byrne was championing Brazilian music in the US. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margareth_Menezes) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

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Faraó, Divindade Do Egito / Música Incidental: Natureza Egípcia (Ao Vivo)
Margareth Menezes
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Deixa Merecer (Citação: Deixa a Gira Girar e Filho de Rei) (Ao Vivo)
Ivete Sangalo
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Dandalunda
Margareth Menezes
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Uma História De Ifá (Elegibô) (Ao Vivo)
Margareth Menezes
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Elegibo (Uma História de Ifa) [Andeeno Damassy Remix] (feat. Amscat)
Relight Orchestra

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Naturalmente

Album • 2024
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Brasil 2014

Album • 2014
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Margareth Menezes

Album • 1988
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Naturalmente Acústico

Album • 2024
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Pra Você

Album • 2005
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Macaco Sessions: Margareth Menezes (Ao Vivo)

Album • 2022
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Naturalmente Acústico (Álbum Comentado)

Album • 2024
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Afropopbrasileiro

Album • 2001
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Autêntica

Album • 2019
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Elegibo

Album • 1990

Singles

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Ramalhete de Flor

2025
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Terra Aféfé

2022
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Arco-íris do Amor

2020
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Tambores e Cores (feat. Margareth Menezes & Durval Lelys)

2023
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Xote da Vacina

2021
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Bem Me Quer

2019
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Cadê Você? (feat. Vavá Ks)

2023
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Moska Apresenta Zoombido: Margareth Menezes

2021
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Me Dê

2022
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História

2021

Videos

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Cordeiro De Nanã / Deixa A Gira Girar / Atabaque, Chora (Ao Vivo)

Mateus Aleluia, Saul Barbosa, & Margareth Menezes • 412K views
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Salvador Não Inerte - Margareth Menezes (DVD Brasileira)

Margareth Menezes • 417K views

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Presenting Margareth Menezes

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Bahia, baby

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Feel the mood of Salvador

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Brazilian Black Voices

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Afrobeat Brazil

Playlist • YouTube Music

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