
Her songs, usually watered with an acid irony or with a claim for female independence and sexual topics, became ubiquitous in the charts.

Rita helped to incorporate the rock revolution into the creative explosion of tropicalismo, formed the most celebrated Brazilian rock band in the world, Os Mutantes, and created solo songs with enormous popular appeal without losing her freedom and irreverence.įormer member of the group Os Mutantes (1966 - 1972) and leader of the band Tutti Frutti (1973 - 1978), Lee participated in important revolutions in the world of music and society, such as the Tropicália movement during the Brazilian dictatorship, which led her to be the artist with the most censored songs in Brazil during that period.
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Best known as Rita Lee, was a Brazilian MPB singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, actress, writer, TV host and animals rights activist of American and Italian descent, being regarded as the "Queen of Brazilian Rock".
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User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License additional terms may apply.Rita Lee Jones de Carvalho was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31, 1947,… Read Full Bio ↴ Rita Lee Jones de Carvalho was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31, 1947, and passed away in her hometown on May 8, 2023. She passed away in her hometown of São Paulo at the age of 75 on May 8, 2023. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021 and had been undergoing treatment for the disease. "I retire from shows, but never from music," she wrote on Twitter.

In 2012, she announced that she would retire from performing live due to physical frailty. She would receive five more nominations for the award and in 2022, she was awarded the Musical Excellence award for her body of work. In 2001, Rita Lee won the Latin Grammy for Best Portuguese Language Rock Album with "3001". In October 2008, Rolling Stone magazine promoted the List of the 100 Greatest Artists in Brazilian Music, where Rita Lee ranks 15th. With a career that has reached 50 years, Rita Lee has gone from the musical innovation of the late 1960s and 1970s to the highly successful romantic ballads of the 1980s. They had three children, including Beto Lee, also a guitarist, who accompanies his parents in concerts. In 1976, Lee began a romantic relationship with guitarist Roberto de Carvalho and since then he has been the partner on most of her songs and accompanied her in all her live performances.

The album, Fruto Proibido (1975), released together with the band Tutti Frutti, is commonly seen as a fundamental milestone in the history of Brazilian rock, considered by some as her masterpiece. Rita Lee Jones de Carvalho was born in São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31, 1947, and passed away in her hometown on May 8, 2023.
