Sylvia Telles

She began her professional career in 1955, participating in the vaudeville Gente de bem e champanhota at the Follies Theatre in Rio de Janeiro. Also that year she recorded a 78 rpm on the Odeon label containing Amendoim torradinho (Henrique Beltrão) and Desejo (Garoto, José Vasconcelos and Luiz Cláudio). She then released another 78 rpm with Menina (Carlos Lyra) and Foi a noite (Tom Jobim and Newton Mendonça), considered to be one of the forerunners of bossa nova. At this time she and Candinho presented the program Música e romance broadcast by TV Rio, in which the couple received guests such as Dolores Duran, Tom Jobim, Johnny Alf, Garoto and Billy Blanco, to sing and chat with them. In 1957, she released her first album Carícia, which included Chove lá fora (Tito Madi), Se todos fossem iguais a você (Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes) and Canção da volta (Ismael Neto and Antonio Maria), among others. In 1958, she appeared at the Hebraico Group University (Rio de Janeiro) in a show that re-united Carlos Lyra and Roberto Menescal, among other musicians, all connected with bossa nova. The following year, she recorded the album Silvia which contained the outstanding track Estrada do sol (Tom Jobim and Dolores Duran) and Mágoa (Tito Madi). In 1959 she also released the album Amor de gente moça, with the Tom Jobim songs Só em teus braços, A felicidade (with Vinicius de Moraes), Sem você (with Vinicius de Moraes) and O que tinha de ser (with Vinicius de Moraes). The album, which included fine orchestral accompaniment, established her as a professional singer. In 1961, she went to the United States where she recorded Silvia Telles USA, containing the outstanding songs Canção que morre no ar (Carlos Lyra and Ronaldo Bôscoli) and Manhã de Carnaval (Luis Bonfá and Antonio Maria.) Her discography contains the albums Silvia Telles: amor em hi-fi (Philips), Bossa, balanço, balada (Elenco), The face I love (Kapp), not released in Brazil, and The music of Mr. Jobim (Elenco). She interpreted various bossa nova classics such as Corcovado (Tom Jobim), Se é tarde me perdoa (Carlos Lyra and Ronaldo Bôscoli), Amor e paz (Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes), Insensatez (Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes), Você (Roberto Menescal and Ronaldo Bôscoli), Balanço zona sul (Tito Madi), Preciso aprender a ser só (Marcos and Paulo Sérgio Valle) and Eu preciso de você (Tom Jobim and Aloisio de Oliveira), among others. In 1964, she performed in the show O remédio é bossa, at the Paramount Theatre (Sao Paulo), with Tom Jobim, Os Cariocas, Alaíde Costa and Carlinhos Lyra, among others. By the early '60s, she had made her first trip to America, recording U.S.A. with Barney Kessel (among others) for Philips. Her husband, producer Aloysio de Oliveira, proved instrumental in her later signing to Odeon and Elenco, two labels where he worked. Telles had just recorded her second tribute to Jobim, 1966's The Music of Mr. Jobim (or Sings the Wonderful Songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim), when she was tragically killed in a car accident. In 1966, she appeared on stage for the last time, with Edu Lobo, in Germany. Sylvia is the mother of singer Claudia Telles, born August 26, 1957. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.