In the month when the singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Arlindo Cruz (1958-2025) would be 67 years old, National radio makes a tribute to the artist during the Sunday special this weekend. The attraction, which airs Sunday (28), at 10 pm, recalls the more than three decades of career of the samba icon and rescues various content preserved in the collection of Brazil Communication Company (EBC).
Presented by Gláucia Araújo, the tribute highlights striking facts of Arlindo Cruz’s trajectory: the musical heritage of the family; The influence of the carioca block Cacique de Ramos; the passage through the backyard group; The partnership with bambas such as Beth Carvalho, Sombrinha, Zeca Pagodinho, among others. Listeners will be able to check out the curiosities through Arlindo’s own audios and musical partners, in interviews shown in programs like Uncertainty and Samba in Gamboafrom the TV Brazil.
THE Sunday special It is also punctuated by great successes that marked the vast production of Arlindo Cruz. In all, there were more than 550 recorded songs. The sambista released 23 albums, nine while integrating the backyard, five in partnership with Sombrinha and nine in solo career.
The repertoire transmitted during the program includes Arlindo compositions recorded by him and other artists: We got to the end, Ô, Irene, Trickster Sou Me, The show has to continue, From the bottom of our backyard, Just to contradict, Orange bagasse, My place, Shrimp that sleeps the wave, Shameless couple, Favela/in a city far from here, My poet, What is love, It’s still time to be happy and Good apprentice.
Owner of a remarkable voice, the carioca Arlindo Cruz began his career in the early 1980s in Rio de Janeiro, in samba wheels of Cacique de Ramos, alongside artists such as Jorge Aragão, Beto Sem Braço and Almir Guineto. The singer’s last artistic project was Pagoda 2 Arlindossong recorded in 2017 with son Arlindinho.
Bamba won more than 20 awards, including the best samba singer of the 26th Brazilian Music Award. It was nominated for Latin Grammy five times, four in the best samba/pagoda album category and one in the best Portuguese language song category.
Brazil said goodbye to Arlindo Cruz on August 8 this year. With the health weakened since 2017, when he suffered a serious stroke (stroke), the sambista died at age 66.
