Marisa Monte - Gentileza (English Subtitles)

A week before the Christmas of 1961, a fire destroyed the circus "Gran Circus Norte-Americano", in Niterói, state of Rio de Janeiro. Over 500 people were killed, most of them were children. José Dantrino, 44, woke up one morning, six days after the fire, claiming he had heard "astral voices", urging him to abandom the material world and dedicate to the spiritual. He drove to the fire site, planted a garden on top of the ashes and built a shack nearby, where he lived for 4 years. He consolled the vicitms' families, with his words and preached kindness amongst people. From then on, he was known as "Profeta Gentileza" (Profet Kindess).

He left the fire site, which had become known as "Kindness Paradise" and started walking thorugh the city. He was seen on the streets and squares, the ferries between Rio and Niterói (separated by a bay), in trains and buses, preaching love. To those who called him crazy, he'd respond: "I'm crazy enough to love you and insane enough to save you"

After 1980, he chose 56 pillars that stretched over a mile underneath a highway above a busy street and filled them with green and yellow inscriptions (colors of the Brazilian flag) with very peculiar caligraphy. In them he criticized the world and its unkind civilization, urging people to be kind and spread love. The inscriptions could be seen by anyone who passed by and due to their distance from the ground, even those riding the buses were able to read them.

He died in 1996 at the age of 77, leaving no one to mantain the inscriptions, that eventually degraded, faded and were graffitied on. In 1999 the city of Rio painted the pillars grey. A movement that included students, artists and citizens pressured the city to recuperate the inscriptions. They have been restored to their original glory.

This song is part of that movement.

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• gentileza
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[johnnywhitechapel]

Wow crapist, I never knew this song has such a profound tale behind it.

Thanks as always for the excellent crap

[randomcrapist]

@johnnywhitechapel it's a pretty incredible story, isn't it? anyways, thank you so much for your awesome comment! :-)

[mrcelorapa]

Precisamos de mais "Gentilezas" por ai.... Ainda mais nos dias de hoje! No Brasil de hoje! Tem que ter muita coragem para fazer o que esse ser humano iluminado fez! Confesso que não teria tal. Ele com certeza está em paz ao lado de Deus!

Muito bom e comovente video!

[randomcrapist]

@mrcelorapa concordo! :-) brigado pelo comentário!

[semcarteira]

a cidade é feita de ... gente! humanizar é preciso. viva a música, arte das musas, como MARISA MONTE !!!! e mais um ponto positivo pro youtube, só aqui neste canal pra aprender tanto e tão fácil. parabéns a quem postou, já adicionei aos meus favoritos.

[randomcrapist]

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[wimderonda]

Lo mas importante en la vida. "Gentileza". Be kind to each other, love each other

[randomcrapist]

@bovespa2007: :-) que bom que gostaste! obrigado pelo comentário!

[bovespa2007]

Muito legal. Parabéns minha musa!!!