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On Wednesday, Maria Bethania launched her most recent album – the 50th of her career – "Oásis de Bethania," at the headquarters of Biscoito Fino label, in Botafogo, Rio. On the cover, a picture shot by Gringo Cardia in the Sertão of Alagoas. "The sertão lacks everything. It is where God draws a line. I always need to remember that there’s such a place in my country. This puts me in my place," she said, early in the interview.

* On the new album, 10 songs – five of them previously unreleased – go together with excerpts from poems recited by Bethania. One of them, indeed, amid the song “Carta de Amor” ("Love Letter"), by Paulo Cesar Pinheiro, she wrote herself. "I don’t have a lot of texts in store, because I write them and burn them. It cleanses me. I don’t want to be a writer," she said.

* The new album, incidentally, has a launch full of new things. In addition to having had pre-sale on iTunes, which ranked among the five most sold in the country, the label will also release an iPhone application, which includes, among other things, a Bethania Radio with all songs she recorded. "Now everything is online," she emphasized. She’s everything, right, glamurettes?