A chest full of memories stands the test of time. Inside are the stage lights, the sounds of the violin, the piano and even the country guitar. There are family influences immersed in art and even the sounds of war. They mix rhythms and friendships with Frank Sinatra, Carmen Miranda, Nat King Cole, João Gilberto… Brazilian singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Dick Farney (nickname of Farnésio Dutra e Silva from Rio de Janeiro) started an international career in the 1940s , with a booming voice in tenderness. way of Jazz with bossa nova. He, who was born on November 14, 1921, would complete his centenary this Sunday (14). A ‘Brazilian Sinatra’, fans say. He died in 1987 while still working intensively. He left a legacy, at least 45 records (not counting the foreigners), 395 recorded songs and a chest of memories that do not let his history be forgotten.
The trunk actually exists, with notes, music and images that the organized musician left behind and is in the custody of the artist’s niece and goddaughter, researcher and educator Mariângela Toledo, who assumed the responsibility of ensuring that the history of the renowned artist did not fail. never to echo. She, who organizes the memoirs and immersed herself in the artist’s history, is preparing a biography with more than 400 pages to be published in 2022. The pandemic hampered plans to take the book someone like you to the public in the artist’s centenary year. Revelations in the work show his restlessness and intensity, fascinated by the work and the strategies to produce non-stop, even though he came from a wealthy family.
“The title of the book isn’t just because of the song he sings. He was really unique. An incredible character”, explains Mariângela. She wants to do justice to the unique history of the musician, who had an international career, had a program in the United States, was the precursor of samba-canção and bossa nova, but today, in his niece’s opinion, is not as recognized a name as others. brilliant artists.
From childhood
When he was still just little Farnésio, at the age of three, he had his first contact with the violin. He started to receive lessons from his father, Eduardo Dutra, a businessman and musician, and who would also have another artist-turned-star son, actor and musician Cyll Farney (his brother Cilênio’s nickname). Dick, according to the researcher’s niece, originated because Farnésio, aged eight, liked to imitate the American singer Richard Dick Powell.
Later, he discovered the piano, as a child, and then singing. “I never went through a conservatory. What he learned was at home.” Mariângela identifies that he was prepared for classical music. It was with this north that he went to work in the United States. In a foreign country, he was delighted with the ease of dealing with the English language. “He sang in the shows and on the radio and, given the absence of an accent, there were those who believed he was not Brazilian”.
here is a singer
At the age of 17, Farney went to study at the Instituto Nacional de Música, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. “He passed first and went to study music with a specialization in music theory and solfeggio [exercício de leitura das notas de uma partitura]. Here he was already concerned with improving his singing”. In the assessment of the biographer, his mother, Iracema, is the one who discovered that Dick was a singer too.
A little-known story in the 1940s in Brazil, as the researcher explains, is that Dick Farney enlisted in the Brazilian Army and joined as a soldier. It barely made it to World War II. The father, desperate with the young man’s pretension, turned to friends for him not to go. The soldier ended up, annoyed, working behind the scenes in Rio de Janeiro, but in contact with the soldiers who would embark for Italy. But later, the sound of it reached the combatants.
He is still quoted in the United States today in the World War II memorial. “The US Navy, faced with the emotional problems of the combatants, promoted the production of a disc aimed at these soldiers in conflict areas. Dick Farney’s voice was chosen for this album [o Victory Disk, disco da vitória em tradução literal].” Close to a million discs have been distributed. Imagine Dick Farney and Frank Sinatra, two great exponents at the height of success recording together”. Who chose the artists to be recorded were soldiers. Dick’s songs were chosen seven times by the military to compose the materials.
Copacabana
Until the age of 18, he was very attached to classical music. His erudition (nor his father’s particular taste) did not prevent him from experiencing a Brazilian way of living music. In the early 1940s, it was crooner at the Cassino da Urca in the Carlos Machado Orchestra. At the age of 25, in 1946, a milestone occurred in the life of Dick Farney and in Brazilian music. he recorded Copacabana, at the invitation of Braguinha, composer of the historic song, which will enshrine the genre of “samba-canção”. The way he sang made critics and audiences discover that they were facing something different. “At that time, people would call on the radio and listen to either samba de morro or music like operetta or country music. when he recorded Copacabana (one of the very rare lyrics at the time that did not deal specifically with people, but with a place), with the support of violins, it was a style of music that had nothing like it in Brazil. The magazines at the time called it a samba-canção. It is considered the beginning of bossa nova. The samba-canção is the root of bossa nova.”
With the fame, between 1947 and 1948, he went to the United States and was a regular participant in an NBC program. In Brazil, he knew that the market had also opened up to his talent. The musicians who embraced the style were the stars of those golden years. With even the right to false rivalries between them, as occurred in the case between Dick Farney and Lúcio Alves, stars of the Continental label, who were close friends. “They stayed at each other’s house when they lived in New York. Between them, there was no estrangement. Quite the opposite. But the label asked Billy Blanco and Tom Jobim to compose something that would pacify the fan clubs”, explains Mariângela Toledo. The music Tereza on the beach, a masterpiece of Brazilian music, had its vocals divided between the so-called rivals. “This song was even composed at Uncle Dick’s house and brings the story of two friends who dated the same girl. But the two don’t fight over her and discover that they’ve both been tricked.”
Star
In 1959, he had a show on TV Record, the Dick Farney Show. In 1965, he was on the new TV Globo, with the program Dick and Betty (Actress Betty Faria). Dick Farney made versions of foreign songs, composed and sang for movies in the cinema and was intensely active in homes of show.
Check this Sunday (14) a special of Radio MEC about Dick Farney on the show Musical chest
First in Rio de Janeiro, then in São Paulo. “He didn’t stop at all. Despite being a star, he was a discreet and shy person. He was a very affectionate man with his family”, says the niece who met him after he married his aunt, Zean, in the 1970s. For her, he even asked his friend Billy Blanco to compose the song The stewardess, the wife’s profession when the couple met. “TV, radio, concert halls… Farney’s routine was to be on stage”, he says. Even in the 1980s, when the family asked him to slow down. At the age of 65, he was hospitalized after a show in which he felt pain and difficulty breathing. He died of worsening pulmonary edema.
fans
Dick Farney left a legion of fans who, today, look to the internet to retrieve songs, stories, images and sounds of the star. Among the main groups devoted to the artist, one of the pages (today with more than five thousand members), it brings together people of different ages and also celebrates the prodigious time of songs of those golden years.
The curiosity is that this group was the initiative of a young history teacher and graphic designer. Rodrigo Manhães, 35, from Rio de Janeiro, came to Farney’s work through his mother’s influence. “Today little is said about Dick Farney. Since I was a child, I have listened to Sinatra, Dolores Duran and him, among others. I particularly like him singing Billy Blanco songs.” Among the favorite songs of Manhães are Rio de Janeiro Symphony, and also Copacabana and Tereza on the beach. “He has a soft voice and masterfully plays the piano.”
“My wife and I like these works vintage. I really appreciate the Jazz. As I liked this style, I also started to admire the ‘Brazilian Sinatra’, which is Dick Farney”. To listen to more than the LP on the record player, he decided to form the group on Facebook. “I didn’t imagine it would grow so much. Every day at least 100 people enter. every post, we received many comments. Many are from seniors who testify to having attended the shows and they speak of homesickness”. Nostalgia, rummaging through chests and exchanging memories so that, once again, they can preserve the artist’s memory.
Listen to Dick Farney performing some of his songs in the playlist below: to listen and to stop, click on the singer’s photo (thanks to Radio MEC by searching the audios):
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