I had never even been to New York, mind you.

“It was a moment of ascension of my career, the ‘boom’.

Zélia had recently done a show in Central Park, New York, a mini-tour in Europe, and “Intimidade” had just won a gold record for 100,000 copies sold. Singing Rita Lee and Itamar with so much love confused people, but I was born in Niterói, was raised in Brasília, and Rio became my home”, she laughs.Īt the 1997 performance, things had already changed a lot. “My biggest idol is Itamar Assumpção, and I have always made that very clear. Nowadays, she believes that it was her artistic identification with São Paulo that left this impression. The affection of the São Paulo public was such that the singer even said in an interview to Folha, in 1997, that São Paulo was the best place for her music and that many people thought she was from São Paulo. © All rights reserved Sesc Memories collection © All rights reserved Sesc Memories collection © All rights reserved Sesc Memories collection It was the end of loneliness, at least in this aspect”, she remembers. This show must have been a few months later, and you feel the wave changing, you know? There was a frisson in the air and people coming. The album ‘Zélia Duncan’, which contained ‘Catedral’ and so many songs that were important to me, had been released in 1994. “I will never forget it, because it was just before that explosion, but the countdown was already open. That stage was a watershed in the artist’s career: it was there, three years earlier, the first time Zélia had heard the audience sing along in one of her performances. It was a moment of consecration in her career, registered in the album “Relicário: Zélia Duncan (ao vivo no Sesc 1997)”, the second release of the project Relicário, from Sesc label, which arrives to the public now, more than two decades later. With songs from her second and third albums, “Zélia Duncan” (1994) and the aforementioned “Intimidade” (1996), the artist showed not only her strength as a singer, with her remarkable deep voice, but also as a songwriter, since 14 of the 19 tracks were written by her, alone or in partnership. The evening began with a lovely chat of about 20 minutes, and then Zélia introduced herself. She was there to take part in the project “Ouvindo Estrelas” (Listening to the Stars) at Sesc Pompeia, directed by journalist and musical researcher Zuza Homem de Mello, of whom she was a friend. It was her first album after the success of “Catedral”, and it showed that her success would not be fleeting. Zélia Duncan had released her third album, “Intimidade”, the year before, when she took the stage at Sesc Pompeia on Tuesday, July 15, 1997.

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