Revolution and reinvention are in Daniela Mercury’s blood. At sixteen she began performing in bars in Salvador da Bahia and discovered that her calling in life was music. Her passion for Bahian Carnaval led to the ultimate challenge of singing in a trio elétrico. Mercury took to the rolling, amplified bandstand that lumbers down the avenue among Carnaval revelers at a time in which only men sang in blocos. Since then the festa barroca has become her milieu of choice for redefining her artistry.
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Daniela Mercury

Artistas moviam a terra
Com seu choro e partiam
Nascaamos em anos interminaveis
Filhos de arvores cortadas
Fomos silancio sem saber
A geraao do nada
Que ressuscitou sem morrer
O leite derramado a vermelho
Como a cor dos nossos cabelos
Que danam, que danam
As drogas ja sao palidas
As palavras sem prisao
As crianas mal criadas
Nascidas com a televisao
O leite derramando a vermelho
Como a cor dos nossos cabelos
Que danam, que danam
Geraao perdida
Artistas, negros, mae
Nossos mortos sem vida
A dor que ainda dai