Marisa Monte is a Brazilian popular singer, and one the biggest stars of contemporary MPB. She was born on July 1, 1967 in Rio de Janeiro. While classically trained in opera singing, she grew up surrounded by the sounds of the Portela samba school, and combines diverse influences into her music. While most of her music is in the style of modern MPB, she has also recorded traditional sambas and folklore tunes, and songs by Marvin Gaye and Lou Reed. Much of her work has been in collaboration with musicians/songwriters Carlinhos Brown, Arnaldo Antunes, and Nando Reis, and producer Arto Lindsay.
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Speak Low Lyrics
Marisa Monte
(Ogden Nash - Kurt Weill)
Speak low
When you speak love
Our summer day
Withers away
Too soon, too soon
Speak low
When you speak love
Our moment is swift
Like ships adrift,
Were swept apart
Too soon
Speak low
Darling speak low
Love is a spark
Lost in the dark
Too soon, too soon
I feel
Wherever I go
That tomorrow is here
Tomorrow is near
And always too soon
Time is so old
And love's so brief
Love is pure gold
And time a thief.
We're late,
Darling we're late
The curtain descends,
Everything ends
Too soon, too soon.
I wait,
Darling I wait
When you speak low to me,
Speak love to me and soon.