After Os Mutantes issued E Seus Cometas no País do Baurets, Lee departed the group. In 1972, Lee recorded another solo album backed by Os Mutantes, Hoje é o Primeiro Dia do Resto de Sua Vida (Philips). A Divina Comédia was released later in 1970, and O Jardim Elétrico (Polydor) in 1971. With bassist Liminha (now a respected studio producer) and drummer Dinho, they participated in the V FIC with "Ando Meio Desligado" (Arnaldo and Sérgio). Soon after, Os Mutantes had a stint at the Olympia in Paris, France. The same year, Lee recorded her solo album, Build Up, which was produced by Arnaldo Baptista and saw her expanding into more traditional rock and pop territory. In 1970, they returned to Brazil and performed the show O Planeta dos Mutantes, the first multi-media experiment in Brazil. They went to Europe, playing at Cannes, France, at the MIDEM, and in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1969, they participated at the IV FMPB with their "Dom Quixote" and, by Lee and Tom Zé, "2001." They performed with the Baianos at the Sucata nightclub, Rio, and recorded their second album, also self-titled. Also in 1968, they performed "É Proibido Proibir" with Veloso on TV Globo's III FIC, and their own "Caminhante Noturno," which won seventh place. During their somewhat frequent tours of Europe, they recorded an LP that was unreleased at the time with the exception of some tracks included on 1971's Jardim Elétrico. Soon after, they recorded their single "O Relógio." In 1968, they performed on the album/manifesto Tropicália ou Panis et Circensis (Philips) alongside fellow musical revolutionaries like Nara Leão, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Zé, and recorded their first LP, Os Mutantes. The novelty of electric guitars and the mixing of strange orchestral sounds irritated the audience a great deal the nascent Tropicalia style had arrived to a fanfare of heavy booing. Picking the name Os Mutantes, they backed Nana Caymmi on her then-husband Gilberto Gil's composition "Bom Dia." Duly impressed, Gil invited them to accompany him at TV Record's 1967 III FMPB, where they won second place for Gil's "Domingo no Parque," which featured the addition of Rogério Duprat conducting an orchestra with his revolutionary arrangements. When the rest of the band left for college, only three of them remained. Adopting the name O'Seis (a pun with "the six" and the Brazilian redneck way of saying "you all"), they recorded the single "O Suicida," which was never released. They met the brothers Arnaldo and Sérgio Dias Baptista. Lee formed a band with two other friends and they provided backup vocals for stars like Tony Campelo, Jet Blacks, Demetrius, and Prini Lopez. In place of the traditional adolescent debut ball, she asked for a drum set. The daughter of an amateur female pianist, she never took music lessons. A former member of the seminal rock band Os Mutantes, she eventually left that group and began an extremely successful solo career in music that lasted for more than 30 years. Rita Lee was a central figure in Brazilian rock.
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