Alvorecer is the seventh album released by Clara Nunes

Clara Nunes

Clara Nunes; August 12, 1943 – April 2, 1983) was a samba singer, regarded as one of the greatest of her generation. She became the first female singer in Brazil to sell over 100,000 copies, and her achievements in the samba genre earned her the title of "Queen of Samba".She had enormous...

 in 1974 for the Odeon

Odeon Records

Odeon Records was a record label founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of the International Talking Machine Company in Berlin, Germany. It was named after a famous theatre in Paris, whose classical dome appears on the Odeon record label....

 label. Due to the success of the song Conto de Areia, the album eventually went on to sell over 300,000 copies in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, making Nunes one of the biggest selling female artists of her time. Despite generally being held in high esteem by many critics, the album has languished out of print for over a decade.

Track listing

1. "Menino Deus"
2. "Samba da volta"
3. "Sindorerê"
4. "O que é que a baiana tem"
5. "Meu sapato já furou"
6. "Punhal"
7. "Alvorecer"
8. "Nanaê, Nanã Naiana"
9. "Conto de areia"
10. "Pau-de-arara"
11. "Esse meu cantar"