A Felicidade

"A Felicidade" is a 1959 song by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes, written for the film Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro). This page has the A Felicidade chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "A Felicidade"

Antônio Carlos Jobim wrote the music and Vinícius de Moraes the Portuguese words, which say that sadness has no end but happiness does. It opens Marcel Camus's film Orfeu Negro (1959), which won the Palme d'Or and the Oscar for foreign-language film and carried the song and the new bossa nova abroad.

Recordings that made it a standard

• Agostinho dos Santos — on the soundtrack of Orfeu Negro (1959).