During the 1980s, her albums sold millions of copies, featuring timeless hits such as Lança Perfume, Baila Comigo, Flagra, Doce Vampiro, and many more. Lee achieved absolute success in her partnership with her husband Roberto de Carvalho. During this time, amidst the dictatorship, some of her songs were censored, and she was even arrested in 1976 while pregnant with her first child.
In the early 1970s, Rita Lee left Os Mutantes and began performing with the band Tutti Fruti. I am as Brazilian as Pelé.or even more so," said Lee. "I finally discovered my Brazilian side.I am a mix of everything.
Suddenly, the freckled, red-headed, half-American girl seemed to have everything to do with the Tropicalist movement that was beginning to take shape in the minds of artists like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. She was a fusion of Brazilian culture and global cosmopolitanism, at a time when bossa nova dominated the music scene and the electric guitar was frowned upon. Rita was a fan of English and North American rock, but she also kept up with the latest Brazilian musical trends. Rita started her music career as a teenager and in the late 1960s, she joined the band Os Mutantes, along with the brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias. She was the youngest daughter of an American dentist and an Italian housewife. Rita Lee Jones de Carvalho was born on December 31, 1947, in São Paulo.
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