Duetos (English: Duets; also known as Renato Russo: Duetos) is an album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Renato Russo released on 27 March 2010 to celebrate his would-be 50th anniversary. As the name suggests, the album is exclusively composed of duets of Russo and another artist. Some duets did truly happen, but not all were previously released; others were created by combining Russo's recordings with other singers' recordings. Background and curation The album was conceived by journalist and producer Marcelo Fróes (with permission from Russo's family) and it was done mainly with tapes from Russo's first two albums, The Stonewall Celebration Concert and Equilíbrio Distante. "Vento no Litoral" and "Celeste", which would later become "Soul Parsifal", are the only ones from the repertoire of Legião Urbana, the band in which Russo sang and played. Some parts were also recorded during the band's V album sessions. A total of 25 tapes were used. The musicians who recorded their parts especially for the album (Caetano Veloso, Célia Porto (who released a Renato Russo cover album on the following year of his death), Fernanda Takai, Laura Pausini and Leila Pinheiro) did so in November 2009. The artists were selected based on some "affection relationship" with Russo. All of them were contacted to negotiate the duets, except for Cássia Eller and Dorival Caymmi, who were already dead and were represented by their families. Content The first track, "Like a Lover", a duet with Fernanda Takai (Pato Fu), was released as a single and is an English-language version of "O Cantador" (The Singer), a song by Sérgio Mendes composed by Dori Caymmi and Nelson Motta. Russo's parts were recorded during the Equilíbrio Distante sessions (another source says it was during The Stonewall Celebration Concert sessions). He effectively sings some parts but only hums others – it was on these sections that Takai's voice was added. Fróes convinced Takai to enter the project after mentioning how much of a fan Russo was of Pato Fu. The singer met Russo along with the other band members after a Legião Urbana show in Belo Horizonte in 1994. Russo gave her his phone number but, out of shyness, she only called him two years later, when the singer was already weakened from AIDS. "Celeste" was recorded in 1993 during pre-production of the album Verde, Anil, Amarelo, Cor-de-Rosa e Carvão, by Marisa Monte, and during a break from The Stonewall Celebration Concert