The iconic Brigitte Bardot, film star who died at the age of 91 this Sunday (28/12), not only left her mark on French culture, but was also a great source of inspiration for Brazilian musicians.
In 1967, Bardot was the muse for one of the songs presented by Caetano Veloso at that year’s Brazilian Popular Music Festival. The actress appears in the lyrics of Alegria, Alegria, a song that became a manifesto song of the tropicalist movement.
Years earlier, in 1960, Bardot had also inspired a Carnival march, composed by Jorge Veiga and written by Miguel Gustavo. “Brigitte Bardot, Bardot/ Brigitte kissed, kissed/ inside the cinema everyone was panicked”
The French actress’ inspiration for musicians was not for nothing. In the 1960s, in addition to being one of the first movie stars to achieve international fame, she also made a memorable visit to Búzios, which helped change the history of what was then Rio’s neighborhood.
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Fleeing persecution from the international press, Brigitte Bardot went to Búzios (RJ) in 1964 with her then boyfriend, the Moroccan-Brazilian Bob Zagury. According to businessman and researcher José Wilson Barbosa, the couple’s chosen destination has been described as a “secret paradise”, very different from Rio’s traditional tourist routes.
Bardot’s visit helped to popularize Búzios, until then a simple fishing village, not only in Brazil, but throughout the world. According to the Ministry of Tourism, six decades later, the association between Brigitte Bardot and the city remains one of the main symbols of attraction for visitors.
Currently, Búzios pays homage to the Frenchwoman with a coastline named after her and a bronze statue on the seafront. Until recent days, Brigitte kept the memory of visiting the little Brazilian paradise, but regretted the frenzied popularization that the destination received.
“I have unique memories of it. A magical, magnificent memory. It’s the wild side of the place that seduced me. But what Búzios has become today leaves me speechless. It’s a shame,” he said in an interview with Radio France International, RFI, in 2017.
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Death of Brigitte Bardot
The death of French actress and singer Brigitte Bardot, at the age of 91, was announced this Sunday (12/28) by the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, founded by her in 1986 to defend animal rights around the world.
Recognized as one of the great icons of French cinema, she was one of the most famous actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, considered one of the greatest references in pop culture and international fashion.
But from the 1970s, she abandoned celebrity and devoted herself to activism in favor of animal rights, a field in which she worked intensely for decades.
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