Catalog Number: HE68013 Color: Black Format: LP UPC: 5060672889353 Nara Leao is known as "the muse of bossa nova". Already as a teenager in the late 1950s, she became friends with several singers and composers who took part in Bossa Nova's musical revolution, including Joao Gilberto, Vinicius de Moraes, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. By 1963, after singing as an amateur for a few years, she became a professional and toured with Sergio Mendes. In 1968 she appeared on the album Tropicalia: ou Panis et Circenses together with artists including Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Os Mutantes and Gal Costa, performing "Lindoneia", which appears as first track in this album, published in the same year.