Leny Andrade

Renowned for her vocal improvisational skills, Brazilian singer Leny Andrade was widely regarded as "Brazil's one true jazz singer." Her thick, husky mezzo-soprano voice seasoned by decades of smoking and late hours, Andrade sang almost exclusively in Portuguese and offered everything from torrid romantic ballads to world-weary blues and celebratory sambas. Her energetic meld of Brazilian styles and modern jazz, which introduced jazz vocal styles like scat and vocalese into bossa nova, samba, and MPB. marked A Sensação, her 1961 debut, 1965's smash Estamos Ai, and 1968's epony...