Voice Teacher Reacts to Elis Regina - Como Nossos Pais 

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E importante verificar que Elis está cantando ao vivo e sem recursos de estúdio. Mestra e uma super artista!!! Belchior, nem se fala!

E não podemos deixar de dizer que o autor dessa música é o BELCHIOR.

Elis Regina is considered one of the most important and unique singers in the history of Brazil. Nobody is like her!

Eu me tremo e me emociono toda vez que ela começa "minha dor é perceber..." é algo sobrenatural que rasga por dentro

Ele não só ficou impressionado com a potência vocal de Elis, mas com as letra de Belchior!!!! Elogiou dois artistas brasileiros de uma vez só!

Imagina aí se ele soubesse o contexto histórico dessa música 🎶

Vale lembrar que essa música foi feita por um jovem e cantada por uma jovem, num contexto de repressão contra os jovens.

Melhor cantora da história do Brasil.

Eu sou brasileira e tive o prazer de assisti-la ao vivo. Concordo com sua análise. Ela é maravilhosa.

Como dá orgulho de ser BR. Como esperamos cada elogio dele pra Elis e ficamos com um sorriso no rosto quando o faz. Nosso país é incrível, nosso povo é incrível. Nunca nos deixemos influenciar pelo negativismo que vivemos. Nunca deixemos que as diferenças políticas tornem o Brasil um ringue onde só se ganha quando o outro deita.

I’m sorry to say that I never heard her before. This is my first time, what a voice and talented singer and artist. My respects you can tell, she took my breath away!

"Como nossos pais" Composta pelo grande músico e compositor brasileiro Antonio Carlos Belchior.

Today January, 19th today it's been 40 years since Elis left us, and until today she is considered a diva of Brazilian music, she left an incredible legacy and, above all, very talented children. I suggest you meet and get emotional with Maria Rita, who is very talented and remembers her mother a lot. Thank you for your incredible reaction video, regards from Brazil 🇧🇷

This music was written during the dictatorship in Brazil. That's the danger around the corner. Try to fit the lyrics into the Brazilian dictatorship history then you gonna see what's Belchior wants to say.

Talvez você ainda não saiba de uma regra da internet: brasileiros amam ser reconhecidos pelo resto do mundo. Nós sabemos tudo de ruim que acontece no nosso país, mas também sabemos o quanto o nosso país é rico em material humano, seja em bondade ou em cultura. Muito obrigada por conhecer e divulgar Elis Regina em um canal internacional. Elis era uma mulher maravilhosa com uma voz única. Conheça outros artistas brasileiros como Maria Bethânia, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Djavan, Elba Ramalho, Gilberto Gil, Rita Lee, Cartola, Tim Maia, Milton Nascimento, Alcione, Elza Soares, Cássia Eller, Maria Rita que é filha da Elis... Nós temos muito a oferecer! Peço as outras pessoas que recomendem outros artistas nos comentários também!

Não esqueça de falar do nome do compositor dessa obra prima que é o BELCHIOR.

always came to re-watch the video, it's the best react of this song

Belchior indiretamente sendo elogiando. Que orgulhoso, meu Brasil é tão rico musicalmente. 💜

O gringo se pois embevecido pela Elis Até hoje os gringos reconhecem o poder dessa mulher !!!! Ela é fantástica.

She was a genius, unique. I love her songs. This song is a protest against militar government in Brazil in 70’.

Elis Regina foi e sempre será a melhor cantora e intérprete do Brasil. Amo Elis e a filha Maria Rita tbm é maravilhosa. Mas igual a ela ninguém se iguala. Elis é o diamante do Brasil.

O professor: "great lyrics" Eu: RESPEITEM BELCHIOR!

A maior cantora brasileira de todos os tempos. The greatest brazilian female singer of all times.

Perfect analysis. I'd like to add that this song composer was Belchior, another Brazilian composer, singer and guitar player.

Lógico que não vai existir outra Elis, mas a tv brasileira peca por não disponibilizar um espaço aos artistas que seguem o mesmo caminho trilhado pela Elis.

Difícil ouvir e cantar junto sem se emocionar... Essa música é um hino, Belchior um mestre e Elis uma rainha. ❤️

1:56 - Ele tomou um susto com ela variando o tom! Ela era impressionante MESMO!

Eu ainda me emociono com a Elis cantando e porque tive a oportunidade de assistir pessoalmente esse show histórico.

The saddest part: We still living like our parents, even after almost 45 years.

Elis Regina, known in Brazil as "Pimentinha" (Little pepper ... or spicy, if you will), presented here what was immediately accepted as the definite version of this song by Belchior - a marvelous lyricist, sort of a brazilian Bob Dylan. And just like Jimmy Hendrix reinvented All Along the Watchtower, so did Elis reinvented this inconic song. The emotion pours out of her in balance at all the right spots, and it is even more fierce and compelling to those who understand the lyrics and remember the time and circumstances in which it was sang. It was 1976, and Brazil was governed by a military dictatorship. This song, today, is just as current, important, real, relevant and misunderstood. It goes like this (my own contextualized translation): "Não quero lhe falar meu grande amor das coisas que aprendi nos discos" (Don't wanna talk my love of things I learned in songs) "Quero lhe contar como eu vivi e tudo o que aconteceu comigo" (I wanna tell you how I've lived and of all that happened to me) "Viver é melhor que sonhar" (To live is better than dreaming) "Eu sei que o amor é uma coisa boa" (I know that love is a good thing) "Mas também sei que qualquer canto é menor do que a vida de qualquer pessoa" (But I do know as well that any singing is less than the life of anyone itself) This was the introduction, in a somewhat subdued manner, just touching gently but with witty irony one of the topics here: the way we keep getting sidetracked and distracted by soft pop culture with no great depth, no base in reality and without touch with all that is impacting the world around us. Now she raises her voice for the first time and we jump alerted by the urgency in her voice: "Por isso cuidado meu bem, há perigo na esquina" (That's why! Watch out baby, there's danger around the corner) "Eles venceram e o sinal está fechado para nós que somos jovens" (They have won and doors are closed to us that are young) She could have said just "Watch out", but she first said "that's why", meaning: because you're numbed by media and out of touch with reality, you're in danger, because they have won. "They" was clearly a reference to the military dicatorship in Brasil at the time, but you probably can guess many "theys" just as menacing today. And the generation divide is also clear: of those who want to hold on to what they've got, and the young generation denied of a future. Here comes another emotional note: "Para abraçar seu irmão e beijar sua menina na rua é que se fez o seu braço, o seu lábio e a sua voz" (To embrace your brother and kiss your girl on the street were made your arms, your lips and your voice) This is poetry in full mode and the metaphors don't stop there. At this point the band changes pace and rhythm: "Você me pergunta pela minha paixão" (You ask me about my new passion) ---> "paixão" (passion) is a word that in Portuguese may refer to a person (my crush) or to an ideal (my vocation) "Digo que estou encantada como uma nova invenção" (I tell you that I am charmed like I'm made up new again) "Eu vou ficar nesta cidade, não vou voltar pro sertão" (I'm gonna settle in this town, not going back to the countryside) "Pois vejo vir vindo no vento cheiro de nova estação" (Cause I see coming with the wind the scent of a new season) "Eu sinto tudo na ferida viva do meu coração" (I feel it all within the living wound of my heart) She stated her stand: how she plans to proceed, how she sees the world - cause she plans on being part of changing this world - and now it's time to challenge her interlocutor: "Já faz tempo eu vi você na rua, cabelo ao vento, gente jovem reunida" (It's been a while I saw you on the street, hair blowing with the wind, among the youngsters) "Na parede da memória essa lembrança é o quadro que dói mais" (On the memory wall that's the picture that hurts the most" We reached the climax of the song where she roars without screaming but you feel like she's looking at you, deep in your eyes with contempt and challenge in every breath: "Minha dor é perceber que apesar de termos feito tudo o que fizemos" (My pain comes from realizing that even though we did all that we did) "Ainda somos os mesmos" (We're still the same) "E vivemos" (and we live) "Ainda somos os mesmos e vivemos" (We're still the same and we live) "Como os nossos pais" (Just like our parents did) "Nossos ídolos ainda são os mesmos" (Our idols are still the same) "E as aparências não enganam não" (And looks cannot deceive me, no) "Você diz que depois deles não apareceu mais ninguém" (You say that after them there was no one else) "Você pode até dizer que eu tô por fora" (You may even say that I don't have a clue) "ou que eu tô inventando" (or that I'm making things up) "Mas é você que ama o passado e que não vê" (But it's you infatuated with the past that doesn't see) "É você que ama o passado e que não vê que o novo sempre vem" (It is YOU infatuated with the past that doesn't SEE that the new always COMES) Many have interpreted this section as a reference to old time artists who influenced the author in his career and that is not untruth, given what is said next, but I also see here a metaphor, because "an idol" may be an iconic popular and influential figure and it also may be something that has a hold on you and what moves you, what drives you. Am I wrong? Let's move on: "Hoje eu sei que quem me deu a idéia de uma nova consciẽncia e juventude ..." (Today I know that those who sold me on the ideal of new conscience and youth...) "Está em casa, guardado por Deus, contando o vil metal" (Are safe at home, by God's blessing, piling up their vain riches) The feeling of betrayal is explicit, isn't it ? "Minha dor é perceber que apesar de termos feito tudo, tudo, tudo, tudo o que fizemos..." (My pain comes from realizing that even after all, and all, and all, and all that we did...) "Nós ainda somos os mesmos" (We are still the same) - and here there's a clear feel of disgust in her voice "e vivemos" (and we live) "Ainda somos os mesmos e vivemos" (We're still the same and we live) - here I can feel pain, defeat - perhaps ? "Ainda somos os mesmos e vivemos como os nossos Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaais!!!!) (Still the same and we live just like our parents Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid!!!!!!!!) No, not defeat! Last note was anything but defeat.

Eu gaúcho, porto-alegrense tenho maior honra e alegria em saber que nasci na terra e na cidade de Elis Regina...

Grande letra de Belchior, interpretação divina da grande Elis Regina.

chorei. imagina ter o prazer de escutar essa música primeira vez... nem lembro quando escutei pela primeira vez, só sei que me emociono até hoje. grande elis, grande belchior!

Sou Brasileiro e tive o Previlégio de ver-la cantar. É, ainda, EMOCIONANTE a força que essa mulher transmite. Orgulho Total.

I loved your reaction, your video was part of a report on the biggest prime time TV show in Brazil. We love your reaction to the greatest singer in the history of Brazil 🇧🇷

O casamento dessa letra com a voz da Elis, me arranca lágrimas todas as vezes!

Quando ele elogia o talento de Elis, nossos corações se enchem de orgulho genuíno, muito obrigada pela sensibilidade, todos os brasileiros agradecem🇧🇷

Vale a pena lembrar o cantor e compositor dessa música " Com Nossos Pais " Querido e maravilhoso compositor, que nos deixou canções lindíssimas! Belquior

I'm a brazilian guitar player, and I'm so happy for this react! This channel is wonderful too. Congratulations. Elis Regina was a beautiful woman and a great talent from Brazil. I hope you continue listening her. She was impressive! Thanks a lot for this great analysis!

Não tem como não chorar ouvindo a Elis cara, essa voz faz parte do sangue brasileiro. I can't hear Elis without crying, her voice is part of our brazillian blood. Thank you for take ur time to hear this amazing woman

É gratificante ouvir de um especialista estrangeiro sobre o quão bom foi Elis Regina. Poucos podem influenciar e trazer respeito ao seu País e ela conseguiu isso,mesmo décadas depois.

The best singer Brazil has ever had. She has a daughter with a voice as beautiful as hers, Maria Rita

This song is about the brazilian military dictatorship, and it wasn't censored because the censors didn't understood the lyrics

Elis Regina insubstituível. Um verdadeiro patrimônio cultural do Brasil

A friend recently recommended Elis Regina to me...And here you are, doing a reaction to one of my new favourites xx

2° gringo que vejo reagir à ela, Elis Rainha em 3 semanas! Mesma música... AMO!!! #ELISFOREVER

Thank you to honor our Brazilian music. Two best brazilian artists: Belchior and Elis Regina! I loved!!!

Elis Regina - O Bêbado e a Equilibrista é poesia pura !

not ONE brazilian alive can listen to her without getting the chills and its brilliant to see your reaction, she's one of the greatest ever. love it!

Thanks Andy! Elis is a big star in Brazil and we fels very honror to show her talent to the world.

No filme de Elis mostra quando ela descobriu que cantaria no mesmo palco que Diana Ross - na época, integrante do grupo The Supremes -, Elis Regina vibrou. Hoje, há quem diga que foi Diana Ross quem cantou no mesmo palco que Elis. Pra sempre Elis ❤️

Essa música foi feita na época da ditadura militar por Belchior, então é muito forte e séria e ao mesmo tempo tão bela.

She is in the same hall of singers like: Freddie Mercury - which is not only a voice but a great voice, performance, energy and emotion in songs

Até hoje não nasceu alguém que passe perto da interprete a artista: Elis Regina

Essa música é um hino e a voz de Elis é deslumbrante!!! Depois de tantos anos como pode ser tão atual ... choro toda vez que ouço ela cantando esta música... emoção pura! ❤️

Thanks you Andy Davis! I am brazilian. Elis Regina is fenomenal. We love Elis Regina. She died in 1982. With 37 years age. I Love this Song, compositor: Belchior.

Elis é a maior cantora que o Brasil já teve, mas não "só". Ela é uma intérprete, no mais pleno sentido da palavra. Quando ela cantava, nos deixava em êxtase! Até hoje me arrepia ouvi-la!

She is considered to be the greatest female singer in Brazil ever. Her voice is something outta this world, not only about entoning or tuning but also about its reach. And the storytelling she makes on this song is really amazing. Loved your review!

thanks for that memory. I was and am a fan of Elis Regina. She had a voice and interpretation that only she could. died early but produced many unforgettable songs. She is a singer. she is an interpreter. she knew how to choose songs for her repertoire.

Teacher, nós brasileiros a chamamos de PIMENTINHA. agora voce sabe porque.

Elis Regina é uma diva, até hoje em 2020 nós brasileiros cantamos e exaltamos seu talento. Adorei! 💜

As a half Brazilian, I am really proud of that country's culture and talents such as her. Brazil is a great country with great people despite its problems.

One of the greatest Brazilian artists of all time. I was very happy to watch your react video to her performance.

Escute o bêbado e a equilibrista. Ótima interpretação da Elis. Assim como Águas de Março junto com Tom Jobim.

Music : Como Nossos Pais Composer : Belchior Album : Falso Brilhante Singer : Elis Regina Year : 1976 Company : Phillips / Universal Music Group Brazil

Obrigada, professor! Nós brasileiros gostamos que nossos verdadeiros artistas, que cantavam as ditaduras, a repressão, o amor e a liberdade, sejam reconhecidos mundialmente. Um abraço! 💚🇧🇷

You forgot to mention the author of the lyrics: Belchior. She was a great loss. Until now, no voice and interpretation beats hers. Thank you for your words. She is and will always be alive for us. She is the best and will always be. I listen to her everyday, specially this music. Incomparable!!!!

As a Brazillian, growing up listening to her, it's delightful to see someone who deeply knows about voice and music being enchanted by Elis.

Caí de paraquedas nesse vídeo. Que maravilhoso ouvir a reação e interpretação de um especialista a Elis Regina, é a melhor do mundo. É isso que sentimos quando ouvimos Elis. Elis vive para sempre nas músicas que ela interpretou de diversos compositores maravilhosos que temos muito orgulho. É pena ver que a música brasileira já não tem a mesma qualidade! Amei!

Thanks David for this brilliant definition of this amazing Brazilian singer. Elis Regina was one of the best singer ever for me. Hope you can listen to other works from her. When she sings Fascination song, OMG, it is just divine. Thank you very much fir your great work as well. I’m a Brazilian guy living in London, UK.

Important to highlight that despite Elis unquestionable talent, she sang this song during the rise of military dictatorship regime in Brazil. Ironically the lyrics of this song still applies to the current days of Brazil's politics, where a slice of the population appeal to the return of the authoritarian regime.

this is not just a song, it is a protest against the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). one of the most important songs in the history of Brazil

Brazil here! I love your reactions, you're so cute ❤

Todas as vezes que escuto essa musica me emociono!!! Elis, gigante!

Hi, Andy! You just got there two of the top Brazilian music jewels: Elis Regina, as a powerful e sensible singer; and Belchior, also a singer, but here as a mind-blowing song writer. Both of them where forged in the Brazilian`s dictatorship fire, tears, blood and hope. Thank you for showing what Brasil is also about.

This music is about the dictatorship Brazil was when she made this piece of pure art. This music makes me cry thinking abot all the good people that was killed for the dictatorship ...

Check out her daughter: Maria Rita. Outstanding singer as well.

Is there no way to give another like? This is probably the best analysis of thishave song I had seen.

Your face of surprise, enjoying her is wonderful hehehehe. She was the best.

When she said " Thers a dangerous around the squire". It´s reality in that time. Here in Brazil here was Dictadura torturing and imprisoning artists. Some of her friends were arrested. Others disappeared and were never seen again. She is very popular in Brazil. With a strong personality, even the dictatorial government did not dare to arrest her. She was an important artist for our country, at the level of art and politics.

I like when she sings: "depois deles não apareceu mais ninguém.” After many years I feel I can still hear my older sister saying the same thing: "after them no one else appeared.

Tomorrow we will remember 40 years of Elis Regina's passing, can you believe that? If it depends on me and all her fans she will be FOREVER remembered and celebrated. After so long we can still say she is DEFINITELY the BEST Brazilian female singer ever, and top 10 all around the world. Saudades eternas, Elis

E olha que essa nem é a melhor versão de “Como nossos pais” da Elis

Elis, she may live forever! Such a great artist and fighter!

You must hear her singing "Fascinação" (Fascination) and "O bêbado e a equilibrista".

You cannot imagine how this lyrics resonates with our people, even today, I listen to this music since I was very young, and I cry today as a child when I listen. it is very deep, a great merit of Belchior also a genius of Brazilian composition.

My grandmother took care of her when she passed away. My gradma was the oldest employee at the hospital by the time she passsed

O always cry watching this performance of her... Astonishing

''É você que ama o passado e que não vê que o novo sempre vem...''. O peso que essa música trouxe pós eleições de 2018 é inacreditável. Agora estamos colhendo os frutos de uma péssima semente plantada.

Tão bom estrangeiros reconhecendo, elogiando, as performances dos cantores brasileiros. Elis Regina é para mim uma das melhores vozes.

Elis Regina has a famous sentence where she says: "If God sang, he would sing with the voice of Milton Nascimento" React to the voice of Milton Nascimento in the song "Para Lennon e McCartney"

She is a truly Singer, Very Very different that the singers nowadays, greeting from Brazil 😁😍😍😍😍😍

Lyrics are from Belchior. He was a brilliant song writer, his musics was so deep and meaningful. He wasn't so good singer tho, a lot of Brazilian singers have version of his lyrics. You should look out.

You're so cute when you talk about Elis! Even dying young, she left a lot of good songs to us. Singing in English, she recorded "Golden Slumbers" from The Beatles and "These are the songs" with the amazing Tim Maia. In Spanish she recorded Gracias a la vida, from Violeta Parra.

Nossa, Elis tem uma interpretação única para essa música. Engraçado que hoje, muitos artistas não tem os recursos vocais, e ficam querendo inventar coisas no palco.. enquanto Elis andava pouco, dominava o palco e o público ficava hipnotizado. Obrigada por ter vendo aqui querida Elis Regina. 😉💐😘

A expressão do rosto dele de encantado é a melhor.

This song has a historical context, it speaks of the dangers of living in Brazil at the time of the regime of exception, in the period of the military dictatorship. When she says "So take care my dear, there is danger around the corner!" it refers directly to government agents who were on the prowl to arrest anyone who spoke out against the regime. Anyway, it is a historical song, with an incredible context and wonderfully interpreted by Elis Regina.

Maior cantora brasileira de todos os tempos !

This song is absolutely amazing and necessary. Absolutely timeless in its meaning and emotion. 2022 is a huge year for democracy in Brazil. We cannot and will not live like our parents. For all those who "love the past" know that "what's new always comes".