Maria Bethânia (1965)

The door into protest and theatre. Maria Bethânia's 1965 debut came straight out of the stage show Opinião, where she had replaced Nara Leão, and it carries Carcará, the song about a hawk that became an emblem of resistance in the north-east. Her deep, dramatic contralto is a world away from bossa nova's hush. Choose it to hear where one of MPB's great voices began.