Now I can only wear sneakers and shoes that are approved by the doctor.” “I was like Imelda Marcos with 500 pairs of shoes. “I always loved stiletto heels and miniskirts,” she recalls. She spent months in bed after surgery with her foot elevated and had to learn to walk again. “It’s something you don’t quite ever recover from,” she says. She took a bad fall at home in 2021 and badly injured a ligament in her foot. It’s a different way of being in general.”Īnd she is grateful she can tour at all.
There are so many musicians to take inspiration from. “The sound of Portuguese is very beautiful the vowels are soft, the consonants are super soft. “I love to be able to hear, to speak my language,” she says. He said it saved him seven years of psychiatric bills!” she concludes with a hearty chuckle.Įlias recently returned home to New York after an extended visit to her homeland. “But this song became his most recorded, more than ‘The Girl from Ipanema,’ and brought him back. So the waters of March are closing the summer, but it’s the summer of his life, and autumn is starting. March in Brazil is the month of the rain, it’s the last month of summer. “He felt that his music was no longer relevant, that his career was on the way down. “When Jobim wrote that song, he was depressed,” she says. She loves, for example, the story behind “Águas De Março” (“Waters of March”), a song that Jobim wrote in 1972 that weaves between lists of random objects adrift in a flooded stream and lists of metaphors for the human condition. So they know what I am singing about, the context.” “To tell the audience the story of a song, and the translation. “A lot of what I do at my shows is storytelling,” she says. When she sings, about 80% of the songs are in Portuguese, because she understands a song needs to be sung in the language in which it is written. On this tour, she plays a few traditional jazz instrumentals.
Her latest, 2022′s “Quietude,” is pure bossa nova, with Elias singing in Portuguese to gentle acoustic guitar backing. Her 2021 album “Mirror Mirror,” which was all jazz piano, won two Grammy Awards, including Best Latin Jazz Album. On some she sings Great American Songbook standards in English, on some she sings in Portuguese, and some albums are jazz instrumentals with Elias on piano. Since then, she has released 31 albums with sales of 2.4 million. “But she was my biggest supporter, willing to say, ‘Go, go to your life.” “When I was 21 I was leaving to go to New York, and my father said, ‘What? No way!’ “My mother looked for the best possible way for me to develop my talent. (The singing came later.) By 17, she was collaborating and touring with Brazil’s most famous composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and his co-writer, poet Vinicius de Moraes. Elias (her name is pronounced Eh-lee-AHN-ee EH-Lee-us), now 63, started playing piano at age 7 and showed signs of being a prodigy.
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