Jabuticaba

The Brazilian music triumphantly marched back into my life just a couple of years after it first took a prominent place in my heart.

Bebel Gilberto’s tunes have been on my lips most of the time since December and have made this unbearably long winter a tiny bit more tolerable. Ceu’s playful, girlish songs were equally impossible to resist. “Comadi” struck me immediately as the perfect sound illustration if a new version of “Dona Flor e seus dois maridos” is ever to be filmed. You can sense a great deal of Vadinho’s charm and Flor’s blossoming femininity in that song, can’t you?

And then yesterday it was once again Bebel’s turn with a song called “Jabuticaba”. When you hear this tender opening

“If I could name

A fruit for you

It would be jabuticaba’

you naturally get curious what sort of a romantic and inspiring plant that could possibly be.

And here is the answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabuticaba

It is a Brazilian grapes tree or as the song goes on:

“Blue, black and small

On the outside

And soft and sweet within”….