Format CD Length 3:32 Writer(s) Marcelo Camelo | Recorded 1999 Label Abril Music | |
Genre Alternative rock, indie rock | ||
"Anna Júlia" is a 1999 song by Brazilian rock band Los Hermanos from their first self-titled album. This was the first work of music and the first great success of the band.
History
The lyrics were written by Marcelo Camelo, and talks about a girl, Anna Julia Werneck, journalism student at PUC-Rio, for whom the then producer of the band was in love.
At the time of its release the song was a hit, getting constant airplay in Brazilian radio and television. The song gained versions in other languages, being re-recorded in English by Jim Capaldi and former Beatle George Harrison. Marcelo is the composer, singer and solo player of the biggest hit of Los Hermanos, the song Anna Julia, which became a world hit with Jim Capaldi's english version, featuring himself in vocals, Deep Purple's Ian Paice in drums, The Jam's Paul Weller in bass and the beatle George Harrison in guitar (playing the solo). The song also received Spanish version by Los Hermanos, Italian version by Daniele Groff, among others.
After this initial success, Anna Julia became less played in Los Hermanos concerts. The band felt that the song does not represent in essence the style of the band, being a radio ballad, a sticky song with a rather simple lyrics that the label made them play to exhaustion. The band isolated on a site for production of their second album, Bloco do Eu Sozinho, with a more refined style.