
The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.

as Mário Reis

as Sinhô

as Carmen Miranda

as Heitor Villa-Lobos

as Noel Rosa

as Lamartine Babo



as Tom Jobim


as Cientista Alemã








as Self (archive footage)