Old Recordings Gain New Listeners in Brazil — VOA Learning English
Topics: мистецтво й музика
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Plastic music recordings, or vinyl records, are popular again in Brazil.
In 2023, more records were sold than compact discs (CDs) and DVDs for the first time in many years. That information comes from Pro-Música, an association of Brazil’s largest music production companies.
The new interest in the pressed vinyl discs and high-quality but less costly record players is bringing fame to singers who thought they had been forgotten.
Catia de França is 77. In the 1970s and 1980s, she traveled through Brazil performing her music. But she was not popular when CDs replaced records. Her music was lost to a new generation who did not use old record players.
By 2021, de França was living in a small…
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