{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Pery Ribeiro | image = | caption = | birth_name = Peri Oliveira Martins | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1937|10|27}} | birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2012|2|24|1937|10|27}} | death_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | origin = | genre = Bossa nova, MPB, jazz<!-- DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT A TALK PAGE DISCUSSION --> | occupation = Singer, songwriter | years_active = 1959–2012 | label = | website = }}
'''Pery Ribeiro''' (27 October 1937 – 24 February 2012) was a Brazilian singer of bossa nova, MPB and jazz, active from 1959 until shortly before his death.
==Biography== Pery Ribeiro was born Peri Oliveira Martins on 27 October 1937, son of the singer Dalva de Oliveira (1917–1972) and singer-songwriter Herivelto Martins (1912–1992).<ref name="Globo.com">{{cite web|title=Pery Ribeiro morre aos 74 anos,vitima de um infarte|url=http://globolivros.globo.com/busca_detalhesprodutos.asp?pgTipo=CATALOGO&idProduto=803|publisher=Globo.com|accessdate=24 February 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902185939/http://globolivros.globo.com/busca_detalhesprodutos.asp?pgTipo=CATALOGO&idProduto=803|archivedate=2 September 2012}}</ref>
Ribeiro began his performing career as a child, dubbing the title character in the Walt Disney movie ''Bambi''. In addition, he participated in the incomplete Orson Welles film ''It's All True''. In 1944, Ribeiro appeared as an actor in the musical comedy film "Berlim na batucada", by Luís de Barros.<ref>{{cite web|title=Berlim na batucada|url=http://www.cinedia.com.br/Berlim%20na%20Batucada.html|publisher=cinedia.com.br|accessdate=24 February 2012}}</ref> This film was a satire of Orson Welles' passage through Brazil while filming "It's All True" (the same film in which Ribeiro appeared) and the United States' "good neighbor" policy.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cinema carioca nos anos trinta e quarenta|year=2003|publisher=Annablume|author=Suzana Cristina de Souza Ferreira}}</ref>
Ribeiro's career as a singer did not begin until 1959. Ribeiro was working as a camera operator for TV Tupi, when he was invited to appear on the program of Paulo Gracindo on Rádio Nacional.<ref name="Globo.com"/> At this time he assumed the stage name Pery Ribeiro, at the suggestion of César de Alencar (a Brazilian radio announcer, film actor and television host).<ref name="Globo.com"/>
In 1960, Ribeiro's mother (a successful and well-established singer), recorded Ribeiro's composition "Não devo insistir". Ribeiro made his first record as a singer in the same year. In 1961, Ribeiro recorded several 78 rpm discs. Among them was a disc featuring the songs "Manhã de Carnaval" and "Samba de Orfeu" by Luiz Bonfá and Antônio Maria, which had been part of the soundtrack of the 1959 film Black Orpheus. In the same year he recorded the song "O Barquinho", by Roberto Menescal and Ronaldo Bôscoli, another song which has become a bossa nova standard. In 1962, Ribeiro recorded his first LP, "Pery Ribeiro e seu mundo de canções românticas" (Pery Ribeiro and his world of romantic songs), accompanied on the guitar by Luíz Bonfá.<ref name="Pery Ribeiro Biografia">{{cite web|title=Pery Ribeiro Biografia|url=http://www.peryribeiro.com/biografia.html|accessdate=24 February 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106070348/http://www.peryribeiro.com/biografia.html|archivedate=6 January 2012}}</ref>
Ribeiro was one of the first singers to record the classic bossa nova song "Garota de Ipanema" (The Girl from Ipanema), recording it in January 1963 for Odeon.<ref>{{cite book|last=Castro|first=Ruy|title=Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World|year=2003|publisher=Chicago Review Press|page=240}}</ref> The song was part of Ribeiro's second LP, "Pery é todo bossa" (Pery is all bossa).<ref name="Pery Ribeiro Biografia"/> In 1965, he appeared on a television special "Gemini V", performing with Leny Andrade and the group Bossa 3 at the club Porão 73. Ribeiro, Andrade and Bossa 3 recorded together several times subsequently.<ref name="Pery Ribeiro Biografia"/> Throughout his career, Ribeiro performed frequently in Mexico and the United States. In 1998, Ribeiro moved to Miami, where he lived until 2011. In 2006, Ribeiro and his wife, Ana Duarte, co-wrote a memoir of Ribeiro's childhood, early career, and the relationship between his parents, called "Minhas duas estrelas" (My Two Stars).<ref>{{cite book|last=Ribeiro|first=Pery|title=Minhas duas estrelas|year=2006|publisher=Globo Livros|isbn=978-85-250-4781-6|pages=360|url=http://globolivros.globo.com/busca_detalhesprodutos.asp?pgTipo=CATALOGO&idProduto=803|author2=Ana Duarte|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902185939/http://globolivros.globo.com/busca_detalhesprodutos.asp?pgTipo=CATALOGO&idProduto=803|archivedate=2 September 2012}}</ref> The book became the source of a television miniseries on TV Globo in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|last=Casetti|first=Danilo|title=Pery Ribeiro fala sobre o centenário do seu pai, Herivelto Martins|url=http://revistaepoca.globo.com/cultura/noticia/2012/02/pery-ribeiro-fala-do-centenario-do-pai-herivelto-martins.html|publisher=Globo.com|accessdate=25 February 2012|language=Portuguese|date=9 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226191248/http://revistaepoca.globo.com/cultura/noticia/2012/02/pery-ribeiro-fala-do-centenario-do-pai-herivelto-martins.html|archive-date=26 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Ribeiro died on 24 February 2012, of a heart attack, in Rio de Janeiro.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://g1.globo.com/pop-arte/noticia/2012/02/pery-ribeiro-morre-aos-74-anos-vitima-de-um-enfarte.html|title = Pery Ribeiro morre aos 74 anos, vítima de um infarto|date = 24 February 2012}}</ref> Shortly before his death, Ribeiro completed work on an album of duets with twenty-two other artists in homage of Wilson Simonal.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pery Ribeiro: disco ao lado de Caetano Veloso e Marina Elali estava pronto!|url=http://www.jb.com.br/heloisa-tolipan/noticias/2012/02/24/pery-ribeiro-disco-ao-lado-de-caetano-veloso-e-marina-elali-estava-pronto/|accessdate=25 February 2012}}</ref>
==Critical reception==
In 2012, Ribeiro was ranked among the 100 best Brazilian singers of all time by Rolling Stone Brasil (at #64). The magazine provided the following assessment of Ribeiro's career: "Possibly the most underestimated Brazilian singer, Pery Ribeiro ... became one of the leading voices of bossa nova. ... Skill, precision, refinement, musical intelligence – Pery had all this to spare, and sang all styles."<ref name="Rolling Stone">{{cite journal|title=As 100 maiores vozes da musica brasileira|journal=Rolling Stone Brasil|date=October 2012|issue=73|url=http://rollingstone.uol.com.br/listas/100-maiores-vozes-da-musica-brasileira/pery-ribeiro/|accessdate=31 October 2013|quote=Possivelmente o cantor mais subestimado do Brasil ... ele se tornou uma das principais vozes da bossa nova.... Técnica, afinação, gosto apurado, inteligência musical – Pery tinha tudo isso de sobra e cantava todos os estilos.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031020328/http://rollingstone.uol.com.br/listas/100-maiores-vozes-da-musica-brasileira/pery-ribeiro/|archive-date=31 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Discography== *1965: ''Gemini V'' (with Leny Andrade) *1967: ''Gemini V en Mexico'' (with Leny Andrade) *1972: ''Gemini Cinco Anos Depois'' (with Leny Andrade)
==Selected filmography== * ''Berlin to the Samba Beat'' (1944)
== References == {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pery-ribeiro-p313395 Allmusic]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ribeiro, Pery}} Category:1937 births Category:2012 deaths Category:Brazilian male singer-songwriters Category:Brazilian singer-songwriters Category:Brazilian bossa nova singers Category:Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city) Category:Música popular brasileira singers Category:Portuguese-language Brazilian singers