“It’s the first time I feel like I’m in this wonderful place of MPB.”

— The police chief called me into his office and I sat like this, a little away. He said: Aren’t you Patricia who sings? I said: I am. This, at the police station, where you actually intervened because of what you didn’t do. Then he continued: “Wow, I really like your work, and there’s a song I love… can you sing it for me now?” And I had to sing! – She’s angry. – This is the level of familiarity (That people are with me). It’s an invasion I’ve been dealing with in my analysis for over 15 years. Because when we grow up in an invasive environment, it is very difficult to be a normal person in adult life.

This is one of the stories that the 51-year-old artist intends to tell in a book she is preparing, which is a combination of an autobiography and an academic thesis. Today, Patricia is studying the fifth period of her psychology course (her first entry into university in her life), and guarantees that she is “in the best stage of her life.” And this Thursday night, at the Teatro Rival Petrobras, in Rio, celebrates the premiere (with tickets sold) of “Nos dias de Hoje, quiet estar”, an album dedicated entirely to the works of Ivan Lenz, which was released on platforms last month (next year, he repeats the dose on January 16 at the Blue Note in São Paulo and returns to the Rival on March 13 and 14).

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A few years ago, the singer began to think about her producer’s idea of ​​recording a performance album dedicated to an important composer. The name Evan (who had never sung or recorded any music for him before) came up.

– I only remembered his most famous works. Then I looked for things there, in the musical education I received from my family. I heard “through unfortunately” (1974 LBP), and another with a yellow cover written on it “Aparecida” and “Mãos de Appion” (“We’re All the Same Tonight”, 1977), and I fell in love – she says. – I realized that at the beginning of his career, Ivan was more of a rocker, and he didn’t even look like him. Then came this matter of a political nature, and in the eighties, pop music appeared, with soap opera songs, which are still masterpieces of art. At that time, I was listening to a lot of yacht rock and I saw in it the same mix of rock, black and soul, which was very interesting.

For “Nos dias de Hoje, quiet estar”, I sampled the title track of “Abre alas” (recorded as a duet with Seu Jorge), “Aparecida” and “Mãos de emotion”. And also “Cartomante” (I try not to listen to the classic recording of Elis Regina, “because otherwise I’d be singing like her”), “Setembro” (which she presented as an instrumental track, just as it became popular abroad in a recording by Quincy Jones), “Vieste”, “Ai, ai, ai, ai ai” and “Chega”.

– I’m very happy, it’s the first time I feel like I’m in the place I always wanted to be, which is the wonderful place of MPB – admits Patricia, who until recently saw herself as an artist “between pop, bossa nova and soul”, and in the new album she invested in a basic instrumental composition, a jazz trio. —(It’s training) intentionally traditional, raw, to get to the soul, the essence of the songs. I would never change Ivan’s arrangement, I sang the songs in the original tunes. I practiced for months, because I couldn’t reach his low notes. And I had access to them a lot because of my age. I entered menopause and my voice became deeper.

The album’s repertoire, title and cover (for which Patricia posed in a crocheted balaclava) show her growing interest in politics, which went hand-in-hand with her psychology course. The intentions of Patricia Márquez, who as a teenager began signing Marx (“At 16, I was already Karl Marx and Groucho Marx, the critic with a certain joke,” he explains), are very clear now.

— One of the things I want to do after graduation is to work in the social field, as a social psychologist and psychoanalyst. So, there’s nothing more fair than talking about this now, in a very substantive way, in my work — which, she says, has never stopped suffering retaliation at the networks for her progressive positions. — It happened at the time of Inominável, there were people sending things on Instagram and I didn’t even care, I actually blocked comments. But I think that now, knowing what I can do, my access to social media is better. Community work is more important than posting things on Instagram.

In the show, in addition to songs from the album, Patricia Marx rereads little-remembered numbers from her solo career (such as the re-recording of “Charme do mundo” by Marina Lima and Antonio Cicero) and hits such as “Espelhos d’água” (Dalto and Claudio Rabelo),

“Te Cuida, Meu Bem” and “Sonho de Amor” (both from the early phase of his solo career, composed by Radio Midas Michael Sullivan and Paulo Massadas):

-I think they’re great, it’s high quality music. They were very successful, but were much criticized at the time and were called vulgar. Today we see a generation trying to do just like them, trying to embrace this simplicity, this unique structure of the song.

Patricia Marks, a self-proclaimed “uninteresting person as a celebrity,” moved on with her life. Since the beginning of the year, he has been attending Umbanda. Five years ago, he revealed his homosexuality by having a love story with lawyer Renata Pedrera. She says she has not been subjected to homophobic attacks.

– I am in a special place. You think if you were a black or trans woman, it would be more difficult. —(Discover myself) was liberating for me in many ways, even to understand masculinity and the place I was in before, as a straight woman. I learned to have another point of view. Maturity, psychoanalysis, my relationships, my marriage, all of this has added value to me.

What’s more, the singer has agreed to participate in 2023 in the TV show “The Masked Singer”.

-I only do things that entertain me and make me happy. I actually did a lot of things that I had to do, because I didn’t have the understanding that I have today – says Patricia, who is not at all nostalgic for the first years of her solo career. – There was always someone guiding me, I couldn’t give much advice, and there was an underlying masculinity. I had no artistic independence except in (Record label(Conspiracy when she got married and had a child)Arthur, now 26 years old)-account. – My dream as a teenager was to have a rock band. I really like grunge, and I really wanted to learn to play guitar, and sing some Patti Smith songs!