"Carolina" by Seu Jorge
Seu Jorge (born June 8, 1970) is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter and actor. Born Jorge Mário da Silva, he was raised in a favela in what is now known as the city of Belford Roxo.
This song, "Carolina," is a love ballad for a girl named Carolina. The live performance in the video below is a famous one.
In this show, Seu Jorge performs several duets with the famous Brazilian Samba singer Ana Carolina, who makes her first appearance halfway through this song playing the pandeiro.
This is a good song to study Portuguese with, because it follows a steady rhythmic and melodic pattern that really highlights the Flow of Portuguese. Also, if you are already familiar with Portuguese words, this song does a good job of demonstrating how syllables combine and drop naturally in Portuguese.
For example, in this lesson you will learn 15 syllables, but if you separate the words there would be 18 syllables. To do this, the artist had to fuse/drop three syllables completely. So if you learned this song using the written lyrics, you would struggle trying to figure how this happened.
This song, "Carolina," is a love ballad for a girl named Carolina. The live performance in the video below is a famous one.
In this show, Seu Jorge performs several duets with the famous Brazilian Samba singer Ana Carolina, who makes her first appearance halfway through this song playing the pandeiro.
This is a good song to study Portuguese with, because it follows a steady rhythmic and melodic pattern that really highlights the Flow of Portuguese. Also, if you are already familiar with Portuguese words, this song does a good job of demonstrating how syllables combine and drop naturally in Portuguese.
For example, in this lesson you will learn 15 syllables, but if you separate the words there would be 18 syllables. To do this, the artist had to fuse/drop three syllables completely. So if you learned this song using the written lyrics, you would struggle trying to figure how this happened.
