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Rita Lee (born Rita Lee Jones, December 31, 1947) is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. She is a former member of the Brazilian band Os Mutantes and is a popular figure in Brazilian entertainment, where she is also known for being an animal rights activist and a vegetarian. She has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide. ==Early life and career== Rita Lee was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to an American Brazilian father, Charles Fenley Jones,〔Eugene C. Harter. "The Lost Colony of the Confederacy". Texas A&M University Press, 1985, p. 74.〕 a dentist descended from the Confederados, and Romilda Padula, a Brazilian mother of Italian ancestry. She was educated in a French language school and became fluent in Spanish, French and Italian, as well as her native Portuguese and the English that her parents spoke at home.〔()〕 She went to college, where she was a colleague of the popular actress Regina Duarte, but she soon left to pursue her musical career. In 1966 Lee formed the band Os Mutantes with Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias. The band released five albums between 1968 and 1972. In that time, Lee had also released her first two solo works, although these records were produced with fellow members of Os Mutantes. When the band re-formed in 2006, she refused to join, calling the reunion an attempt to "earn cash to pay for geriatry".〔()〕 The daughter of an amateur female pianist, she never took music lessons. In place of the traditional adolescent debut ball, she asked to receive a drum set. Lee formed a band with two other friends and they were quite good at vocals, backing stars like Tony Campelo, Jet Blacks, Demetrius, and Prini Lopez, when they met the brothers Arnaldo and Sérgio Dias Baptista. Adopting the name O'Seis (a pun with "the six" and the Brazilian redneck way of saying "you all"), they recorded the single "O Suicida," which was never released. When the rest of the band left for college, only three of them remained. Picking the name Os Mutantes, they backed Nana Caymmi on her then-husband's composition "Bom Dia" (Gilberto Gil). When Gil met them, he immediately knew that Os Mutantes were on the same track as the Baianos. Inviting them to accompany him at TV Record's 1967 III Festival da MPB, they won second place for Gil's "Domingo no Parque" with the addition of Rogério Duprat conducting an orchestra with his revolutionary arrangements. The novelty of electric guitars and a generalized irreverence of the mixing of strange orchestral sounds irritated the audience a great deal; the nascent Tropicalia was coming to the world under heavy booing. Soon after, they recorded their single "O Relógio". In 1968, they performed on the album/manifesto ''Tropicália ou Panis et Circensis'' (Philips), with Nara Leão, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Zé. This was also when they recorded their first LP, ''Os Mutantes''. Also in 1968, they accompanied Caetano to TV Globo's III FIC, on his "É Proibido Proibir" and performed their "Caminhante Noturno," which won seventh place. In the same year, they participated at the IV FMPB with their "Dom Quixote" and, by Lee and Tom Zé, "2001." At the end of this year, they performed with the Baianos at the Sucata nightclub, Rio, and recorded their second album, also self-titled. In 1969, they went to Europe, playing at Cannes, France, at the MIDEM, and in Lisbon, Portugal. Then, they returned to Brazil and set the show O Planeta dos Mutantes, the first multi-media experiment in Brazil. With bassist Liminha and drummer Dinho, they participated in the V FIC with "Ando Meio Desligado" (Arnaldo and Rita). In 1970, Lee recorded her solo album, ''Build Up'', produced by Arnaldo Baptista. Soon after, they had a stint at the Olympia in Paris, France. In that period, during their somewhat frequent tours in Europe, they recorded an LP that was never fully released, 'Tecnicolor', with the exception of some tracks included on 1971's ''Jardim Elétrico''. The LP, ''A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado'' is from that year and ''Jardim Elétrico'' (Polydor) from the next. In 1972, Lee recorded another solo album backed by the Os Mutantes, ''Hoje É o Primeiro Dia do Resto da Sua Vida'' (Philips). After releasing the ''Mutantes e Seus Cometas no País do Baurets'', Lee departed from the group. Following a period of depression, during which she became locked up in her home, she decided to abandon her career. But, at the same time, she was writing the material that would make her famous as a solo artist.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rita Lee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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