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TAM Magazine: Interview with Sandy
After 17 yers of success next to her brother, Junior, Sandy prepares the duo's farewell album and tour and practices her first solo steps with a tour sponsored by TAM.
Ever since she was little, Sandy Leah Lima has been a tightrope artist. Of the kind that lifts one foot only after the others lands on the tightrope. She walks steadily over the wire that appeared right after her first public appearance in 1989, next to her brother Durval Lima Junior. She, at the ages of just six years old, and him, five, enchanted the country on the Som Brasil show, on Globo TV, upon singing the sound "Maria Chiquinha", an old success by their maternal granparents Zé do Rancho and Mariazinha. Like Chitãozinho and Xororó, the duo's uncle and father respectively, Sandy and Junior started the artist life while still children, but with a lot more spotlights than their country relatives.
From the opening Aniversário do Tatu (Polygram, 1991) until now, Sandy and Junior released 15 albums and six DVDs. According to the duo's official fan club web site, there were more than 15 millions copies sold, eight mega tours, 1700 shows throughout Brazil and the world, two movies, one soap opera, five years in a TV series on Globo TV and more than 300 licensed products. Despite having accomplished more than most pop artist even dream of, the siblings announced in April that their career togheter has ended. Or better, it ends after the release of the Acústico MTV CD and DVD and its publicity, which will take place until the end of this year. "Whe couldn't simply turn our backs and say good-bye after such a long time. We are going to say good-bye personally to our fans with our last tour. It is the way we found to say thanks a lot for everything", states Sandy in an exclusive interview to TAM Magazine.
"We found, in the MTV Acoustic format, an excellent way of revisiting our work, paying a tribute to our 17 years of career".
Despite the surprise, the separations confirmed what some cards dealt by the siblings suggested. Junior Lima born on April 11, 1984, already firtled with musical and artistic production and directed the drum-sticks of the band Soul Funk. Born on January 28, 1983, in Campinas (SP), Sandy walked through bossa nova and jazz in restricted and very sought-after presentations, especially with the parallel project Sandy solo Tour, which took place in March and April of 2007, with TAM's sponsorship, in which she interpreted Arthur Hamilton, amond others. Even before that, the 5'2" Aquarian, fan of Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Elis Regina and Ella Fitzgerald, sandy in 2006 next to erudite pianist Marcelo Bratke in the Ibirapuera Auditorium, in São Paulo. The show of voice and piano, traveled through compositions by Claudio Santoro, Villa-Lobos, Duke Ellington, and Cole Porter. There was even an invitations for Bratke and Sandy to do a presentation at the renowned Carnegie Hall, in New York.
MPB, bossa nova, and jazz may be the line that will receive the young singer's footspeps starting in 2008. Throughout 17 years of career with her brother, she had already walked the fine line between success and failure, child and adult talent, child-teen and vultgar repertoire, superlative evidence in all kinds af media and private life. Steps taken with a surgical precision in which error is not present. Even the end of the career was very well architected. But it is on a wire that the audience's expectations lie. Maybe, under fewer spotlights, she will face fear and experiment new acts. After all, from the artist you expect surprise. And Sandy seems ready to surprise. He who lives shall see.
TAM Magazine: Acustico MTV (MTV Unplugged) is the last project of the duo Sandy & Junior. Why was this format chosen? Does its signal ho the solo paths of Sandy and Junior will be?
Sandy: The idea of recording an acoustic project is old. Junior and I always wanted to do this, but, every tim we had the opportunity, we thought it wasn't the right moment or other professional appointments would apper befor it. At the end of last year, we wet back to the idea of recording, which went well with MTV's interest, so everything worked out. But only this year did we decide it would be the duo's last project. We found in the MTV Acoustic format a great way to revisit our work, paying a tribute to our 17 years of career. It was hard to choose, but we made a selection of some special songs to us. New arrangements were made for the older songs. There are new songs too. I can't say it signals our solo career because we still don't know what it's going to be like, we are focused on finishing our cycle as a pair.
TM: To what extent does the "respectful relationship with fans" not brake creation and artistic experimentations? And, as a solo singer, what are your hopes along with the public?
Sandy: When you establish a respectful relationship, you need to also know the limits on both sides. I have truly always had respect for the fans. Whether it be taking pictures, signing autographs, avoiding being late, listening to what they have to say, keeping an equal relationship, we have kept a relationship channel with them since the beginning of our career. However, when it was time to create, Junior and I always thought of what the two of us like and know how to do. Of course, always hoping that our public also likes it. But we do our work in an intuitive way. In my solo career, I hope to do the same. I hope that it pleases my current public and may the new fans come!
"The only thing I am sure of is that I will continue singing."
TM: Where will your solo career head to? What does it have in common with and in hat way is it different from your artistic life with Junior?
Sandy: I still haven't wanted to thing much about my solo career. This year my focus is on the ending of our career as a duo, with the acoustic and the farewell tour. As soon as we finish the year, I want to stop and think, study, reclycl myself... I want to do all this calmly and carefully. The only thing I am sure of is that I will continue singing.
TM: How do you see the musical reviews related to your solo work and the duo's work?
Sandy: You can't generalize the reviews related to our work. The democracy law rules. There are those who like it and those who don't. This is both in my work as a duo and solo. When the review is constructive and free of prejudice, I try to listen, really. Our changes over these 17 years were natural processes of life; after all we started out kids, went through all our teenage years releasing albums and continued in adult life. They are reflexes of the changes in our lives. They were not molded around reviews.
  
TM: What is the notion of liberty and privacy for a person who has been famous since the age of seven?
Sandy: Exactly because it's always been this way, since I was a child, I fell calm in the condition of being recognized almost everywhre here in Brazil. I'm not going to pretend that I never want to go out anonymously on the street. But we get use to it, it's funny. And I also often travel to outside Brazil to satisfy this desire. The only thing that truly bothers me is the invasion of the press in very personal subjects. And worst of all when it is gossip.
TM: What are five fundamental albums to you?
Sandy: Name only five? That’s not fair. Many artists and albums would be left out, especially nowadays, when we have practically unrestricted access to music because of technology. But I can confess that I would re-record a lot of things by Tom Jobim, who is eternal.
"Currently, I'm more at ease singing to crowds."
TM: From a fan of Sarah McLachlan to Ella Fitzgerald, what do these singers have that enchants you?
Sandy: The interpretation, the way they fell the music and pass this on their voices. Not to mention other factors, such as “musical intelligence”, “knowing the right amount”, using common sense, versatility and many other things that are prerequisites for a good singer.
TM Do you see yourself as a small-stage singer?
Sandy: Currently, I am more at ease singing to crowds, maybe because it is less intimidating - amazing as that may seem! - and I am more accustomed to it. But with these shows from the Sandy Solo Tour project I started to adapt to more intimate shows. I don’t know what it will be like from here on out...
TM: People always talk about your well-behaved, disciplined image. Does this bother you? Do discipline and the “politically correct” way of living feed the creation and artistic life or do you need to suffer and live intensely to create immortal works?
Sandy: It has never bothered me, I like to be disciplined. What I don’t like is the twisted image that some people created about me being “untouchable” and “perfect”, “little princess” This I really am not. But I think that, in the last while, people have realized that. I imagine that each artist has their personal way of dealing with discipline and creation, it is something very personal. In my case, one goes to the point that it doesn’t get in the other’s way, because, with the life I lead, I need both.
Source: TAM Magazine
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