Remembering Rita Lee: Brazil's Queen of Rock Passes Away at 75.
Rita Lee, the Brazilian singer, musician, composer, and a founder of Os Mutantes, has died at the age of 75. Lee was a pioneer of Brazilian rock and a key figure in the Tropicália movement. Os Mutantes' psychedelic music included fuzzed-out freak outs underscored by carnivalesque orchestrations, found sounds, and pan-Latin rhythms. Lee left Os Mutantes in 1972 to assert her roots, and her music became more conventional over the decades, especially her pop collaborations with Roberto Carvalho, whom she later married.
