Ivete Sangalo, a famous Brazilian Singer shines in New York

Ivete Sangalo shines in New York

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The Brazilian singer plays a historic show inMadison Square Garden, the most famousstage [1] in the world, and grabs [2] the attention of the US press [3]

Ivete Sangalo is more than just an excellent singer. She infects the audience with her energy, joy and sense of humor, whether on a stage or on a truck [4] in Salvador’s carnival.

She is having one of the best times of her life. In October 2009 the singer fromBahia celebrated the birth of her first child. In February this year she shared [5] the stage with no less than Beyoncé, in a show in Salvador, and recently she played big shows in theUSA and Canada. Ivete is beginning to get known on the international scene. On September 4^th she played a historic show in New York, in Madison Square Garden, the most famous arena in the world. Ivete was the first Brazilian singer to play there. The show was a hit – 15,000 people went to see it. About 1,000 people were involved in the production. According to an article in the newspaper O Globo, the total cost of putting [6] the show on was US$ 5 million.

Brazil’s Beyoncé

Ivete’s performance echoed round the US press. Several journalists praised [7] her talent and charisma. Some of them called her Brazil’s Beyoncé. However, for The New York Times’ music critic, Jon Pareles,  Ivete will find it difficult to become a big international star because of the style of her music (axé) and also because she sings in Portuguese. Ivete couldn’t impress him, but she has already shared the stage with big pop stars, such as Shakira and Alejandro Sanz, and she has sung in English and Spanish. There is a big chance that Shakira and Ivete will play shows together in Brazil in 2011, according to an article published in the newspaper O Estado de SP.

Primeira parte da matéria publicada na edição de número 57 da Revista Maganews.

Áudio – Aasita Muralikrishna

Fotos de Ivete Sangalo – Cia de Foto

Vocabulary

1 stage – palco

2 to grab (agarrar) – aqui = atrair

3 press – imprensa

4 truck – aqui = trio elétrico

5 to share – dividir

6 to put on – realizar

7 to praise - elogiar