International popstars mentioned in Brazilian songs
by guisreis | created - 23 Sep 2013 | updated - 01 Nov 2021 | Public
1. Claudia Cardinale
Actress | C'era una volta il West
Like many other female Italian film stars, Claudia Cardinale's entry into the business was by way of a beauty pageant. She was 17 years old and studying at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome when she entered a beauty contest, which resulted in her getting a succession of small film roles. Her earthy ...
"O sol se reparte em crimes / Espaçonaves, guerrilhas / Em Cardinales bonitas" ('Alegria, Alegria' - Caetano Veloso)
2. Brigitte Bardot
Actress | Le mépris
Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934 in Paris, France. Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance, and she proved to be very adept at it. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was ...
"Em caras de presidentes / Em grandes beijos de amor / Em dentes, pernas, bandeiras / Bomba e Brigitte Bardot" ('Alegria, Alegria' - Caetano Veloso)
3. Carmen Miranda
Soundtrack | Greenwich Village
Carmen Miranda was born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha on February 9, 1909, near Porto, Portugal, in the town of Marco de Canavezes. Not long after her birth her family moved to Brazil, where her father was involved in the produce business. The family settled in the then-capital city of Rio de ...
"Porém, o monumento é bem moderno / Não disse nada do modelo do meu terno / Que tudo mais vá pro inferno, meu bem / Que tudo mais vá pro inferno, meu bem / Viva a banda, da, da / Carmen Miranda, da, da, da da" ('Tropicália' - Caetano Veloso)
4. Andy Warhol
Director | Blue Movie
Andrew Warhol's father, Ondrej, came from the Austria-Hungary Empire (now Slovakia) in 1912, and sent for his mother, Julia Zavackyová Warholová, in 1921. His father worked as a construction worker and later as a coal miner. Around some time, the family moved to Pittsburgh. During his teenage years...
"Meu som te cega, careta, quem é você? / Que não sentiu o suingue de Henri Salvador / Que não seguiu o Olodum balançando o Pelô / E que não riu com a risada de Andy Warhol / Que não, que não, e nem disse que não" ('Reconvexo' - Maria Bethânia)
5. Alain Delon
Actor | Le Samouraï
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to Édith (Arnold) and Fabien Delon. His father was of French and Corsican Italian descent, and his mother was of French and German ancestry. His parents divorced early on, and Delon had a stormy childhood, being ...
"Se eles são bonitos, sou Alain Delon / Se eles são famosos, sou Napoleão / Mas louco é quem me diz / que não é feliz, não é feliz" ('Balada do louco' - Os Mutantes)
6. Jean-Luc Godard
Director | Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...
"Eduardo e Mônica trocaram telefone / Depois telefonaram e decidiram se encontrar / O Eduardo sugeriu uma lanchonete / Mas a Mônica queria ver o filme do Godard" ('Eduardo e Mônica' - Legião Urbana)
"O governo apresenta suas armas / Discurso reticente, novidade inconsistente / E a liberdade cai por terra / Aos pés de um filme de Godard" ('Selvagem' - Os Paralamas do Sucesso)
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
"Noutro plano te devoraria / Tal Caetano a Leonardo DiCaprio” ('Eu te devoro' - Djavan)
8. The Beatles
Soundtrack | The Beatles: Get Back
The Beatles were an English rock band that became arguably the most successful act of the 20th century. They contributed to music, film, literature, art, and fashion, made a continuous impact on popular culture and the lifestyle of several generations. Their songs and images carrying powerful ideas...
"Era um garoto, que como eu / Amava os Beatles e os Rolling Stones [...] Stop! Com Rolling Stones / Stop! Com Beatles songs" ('Era Um Garoto Que Como Eu Amava os Beatles e os Rolling Stones' - Os Incríveis / Brancato Jr. / Engenheiros do Hawaii)
9. The Rolling Stones
Soundtrack | Pirate Radio
The Rolling Stones are the legendary British rock band known for many popular hits, such as Paint it Black, Lady Jane, Ruby Tuesday, and (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Almost everyone who attended their shows is quick to comment on their ability to start you up and shake your hips. Their song "...
"Era um garoto, que como eu / Amava os Beatles e os Rolling Stones [...] Stop! Com Rolling Stones / Stop! Com Beatles songs" ('Era Um Garoto Que Como Eu Amava os Beatles e os Rolling Stones' - Os Incríveis / Brancato Jr. / Engenheiros do Hawaii)
10. Deborah Kerr
Actress | The King and I
Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford ...
"No escurinho do cinema / Chupando Drops de anis / Longe de qualquer problema / Perto de um final feliz / Se a Deborah Kerr que o Gregory Peck / Não vou bancar o santinho / Minha garota é Mae West / Eu sou o Sheik Valentino" ('Flagra' - Rita Lee)
11. Gregory Peck
Actor | To Kill a Mockingbird
Eldred Gregory Peck was born on April 5, 1916 in La Jolla, California, to Bernice Mae (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist and druggist in San Diego. He had Irish (from his paternal grandmother), English, and some German, ancestry. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child...
"No escurinho do cinema / Chupando Drops de anis / Longe de qualquer problema / Perto de um final feliz / Se a Deborah Kerr que o Gregory Peck / Não vou bancar o santinho / Minha garota é Mae West / Eu sou o Sheik Valentino" ('Flagra' - Rita Lee)
12. Mae West
Actress | She Done Him Wrong
Mae West was born August 17, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York, to "Battling Jack" West and Matilda Doelger. She began her career as a child star in vaudeville, and later went on to write her own plays, including "SEX", for which she was arrested. Though her first movie role, at age 40, was a small part ...
"No escurinho do cinema / Chupando Drops de anis / Longe de qualquer problema / Perto de um final feliz / Se a Deborah Kerr que o Gregory Peck / Não vou bancar o santinho / Minha garota é Mae West / Eu sou o Sheik Valentino" ('Flagra' - Rita Lee)
13. Rudolph Valentino
Actor | The Eagle
Hollywood's original Latin Lover, a term that was invented for Rudolph Valentino by Hollywood moguls. Alla Nazimova's friend Natacha Rambova (nee Winifred Hudnut) became romantically involved with Rudy and they lived together in her bungalow from 1921 (during the filming of Camille) until they ...
"No escurinho do cinema / Chupando Drops de anis / Longe de qualquer problema / Perto de um final feliz / Se a Deborah Kerr que o Gregory Peck / Não vou bancar o santinho / Minha garota é Mae West / Eu sou o Sheik Valentino" ('Flagra' - Rita Lee)
14. Jethro Tull
Soundtrack | Apollo 18
Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967. Initially playing blues rock, the band later developed its sound to incorporate elements of hard and folk rock to forge a progressive rock signature. The band is led by Ian Anderson, and has featured a revolving door of ...
"Já fui fã do Jethro Tull / Hoje me amarro no Slash / Minha vida agora é cool / Meu passado é que foi trash" ('Samba do Approach' - Zeca Baleiro)
15. Slash
Soundtrack | Barbie
Saul Hudson, mainly known as Slash, was born on July 23, 1965, and was raised in Stoke-on-Trent. Both his parents worked in the entertainment business, his mother being a clothing designer (she did some of David Bowie's costumes) and his father being an art director for a record company. When Slash...
"Já fui fã do Jethro Tull / Hoje me amarro no Slash / Minha vida agora é cool / Meu passado é que foi trash" ('Samba do Approach' - Zeca Baleiro)
16. Elvis Presley
Soundtrack | Girls! Girls! Girls!
Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in East Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Presley (née Gladys Love Smith) and Vernon Presley (Vernon Elvis Presley). He had a twin brother who was stillborn. In 1948, Elvis and his parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he attended Humes High School. ...
"Se o Elvis fosse vivo / Teria raiva de mim / Diria: My God, como é que pode? / Nem o Sinatra fez sucesso tanto assim [...] O Rossi, preferência nacional / Se o Elvis fosse vivo, junto a mim / Seria um cara normal [...] Se o Elvis fosse vivo / Teria raiva de mim / Oh! Rei do rock me perdoa / Roubei sua coroa / Sou o rei, a mulherada quer assim" ('Rossi "The King"' - Reginaldo Rossi)
17. Frank Sinatra
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Natalina Della (Garaventa), from Northern Italy, and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian boxer, fireman, and bar owner. Growing up on the gritty streets of Hoboken made Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. ...
"Se o Elvis fosse vivo / Teria raiva de mim / Diria: My God, como é que pode? / Nem o Sinatra fez sucesso tanto assim / Pareço com Leonardo / Pareço com James Dean / Outro dia em Hollywood / Almoçando com Spielberg / Tratando a minha superprodução" ('Rossi "The King"' - Reginaldo Rossi)
18. James Dean
Actor | East of Eden
James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931 in Marion, Indiana, to Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton A. Dean, a farmer turned dental technician. His mother died when Dean was nine, and he was subsequently raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to ...
"Se o Elvis fosse vivo / Teria raiva de mim / Diria: My God, como é que pode? / Nem o Sinatra fez sucesso tanto assim / Pareço com Leonardo / Pareço com James Dean / Outro dia em Hollywood / Almoçando com Spielberg / Tratando a minha superprodução [...] Pareço com Leonardo / Pareço com James Dean / Sou o Zezé Di Camargo / Sou mais que o Rick Martin / Sou / Daniel disfarçado / Com uma peruca pixaim" ('Rossi "The King"' - Reginaldo Rossi)
19. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
"Se o Elvis fosse vivo / Teria raiva de mim / Diria: My God, como é que pode? / Nem o Sinatra fez sucesso tanto assim / Pareço com Leonardo / Pareço com James Dean / Outro dia em Hollywood / Almoçando com Spielberg / Tratando a minha superprodução" ('Rossi "The King"' - Reginaldo Rossi)
20. Sharon Stone
Actress | Basic Instinct
Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker, and her mother was a homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania, and at that same age, entered Edinboro ...
"Na mesa ao lado a Sharon Stone, a Demi Moore / Faziam tudo pra chamar minha atenção / Elas disputavam minha posse / Só queriam o Rossi" ('Rossi "The King"' - Reginaldo Rossi)
21. Demi Moore
Actress | G.I. Jane
Demi Moore was born 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico. Her father Charles Harmon left her mother Virginia Guynes (née King) before Demi was born. Her stepfather Danny Guynes didn't add much stability to her life either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 times. The parents ...
"Na mesa ao lado a Sharon Stone, a Demi Moore / Faziam tudo pra chamar minha atenção / Elas disputavam minha posse / Só queriam o Rossi" ('Rossi "The King"' - Reginaldo Rossi)
22. Ricky Martin
Actor | Ricky Martin: Livin' la vida loca
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Ricky initiated his singing career in the Latin all boy-band group Menudo. After leaving the group, he moved to New York to study acting. After finishing his studies, he relocated to Mexico where he performed as actor in "Mama ama el Rock", "Alcanzar una Estrella II"...
"Pareço com Leonardo / Pareço com James Dean / Sou o Zezé Di Camargo / Sou mais que o Rick Martin / Sou / Daniel disfarçado / Com uma peruca pixaim" ('Rossi "The King"' - Reginaldo Rossi)
23. Daryl Hannah
Actress | Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Daryl Christine Hannah was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of Susan Jeanne (Metzger), a schoolteacher and later a producer, and Donald Christian Hannah, who owned a tugboat/barge company. Her stepfather was music journalist/promoter Jerrold Wexler. Her siblings are Page ...
"Eu queria morar em Beverly Hills / Numa mansão de um milhão e quinhentos mil / Ter limousine, piscina, telefone celular / Limpar a bunda com dólar e arrotar caviar / Eu queria ser amigo de Kelly / Brandon, Brenda e Donna / Ser o vizinho de Daryl Hannah / Pra brechar sua bundona" ('Eu Queria Morar Em Beverly Hills' - Wander Wildner)
24. Madonna
Soundtrack | A League of Their Own
The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops re-inventing herself, Madonna has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide. Her film career, however, is another story. Her performances have consistently drawn scathing or laughable reviews from film ...
"Money no bolso / É tudo que eu quero / Money no bolso / Saúde e sucesso / Faço tudo pela fama / Não tem jeito eu sou assim / Sei que a fama tem um preço / Vou pagar, quero subir / Na cama com Madonna / Quero mais é ser feliz / Se eu tiver quinze minutos / Viro capa de revista" ('Fama' - Beth Lamas)
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