Maysa

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Maysa Figueira Monjardim (born June 6, 1936 in São Paulo; died January 22, 1977) was a singer, composer, and actress from Brazil. She is associated with fossa and Bossa nova music. She is generally known by the one name "Maysa."

Maysa showed talent at a young age and by twelve had written a samba, which later became a hit from her first album. She married a member of an old-money family at 18 and two years later had a son, Jayme Monjardim. Jayme would later be known as a television director. In the late 1950s she formed a successful bossa nova group and also did television work. In the 1970s she acted on a few telenovelas in Brazil and also composed the soundtrack for a telenova. She died in a road accident in 1977.^[1] After her death a miniseries about her life appeared on Brazilian television.