One of the greatest Brazilian singer/interpreters to appear from the 60’s to this day, Elis Regina was also the most technically sophisticated voice of modern day MPB. As well as this, she pin-pointed her career by the constant introducing of new composers, whose songs she transformed into national hits. Among them one finds names like Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, João Bosco, Belchior and Ivan Lins.

Among the great ladies of Brazilian music, she was one of those who started earliest: at the start of her adolescence, singing on the radio in Porto Alegre, where she was born. And one of those who had the most premature death: in 1982, at the age of 36, interrupting a career at its peak, in one of MPB’s history most tragic cases.

A year after moving to Rio, in 1965, Elis Regina won TV Record’s 1st MPB Festival, with the song "Arrastão", and made her first appearance as the hostess of the program "O fino da bossa", at the same station, with the singer Jair Rodrigues. Admired by foreign musicians, she sang abroad in many shows. One of her main records was made in 1972 with Tom Jobim: "Elis and Tom", with songs by the composer, amongst them the singers big hit, "Águas de março"(The waters of March).