"Maysa" redirects here. This article is about the Brazilian bossa nova artist. For the American jazz singer who is also often known by the one name "Maysa", see Maysa Leak. Maysa Figueira Monjardim (born June 6, 1936 in São Paulo; died January 22, 1977), better known as Maysa Matarazzo or simply Maysa, was a singer, composer, and actress from Brazil. She is associated with fossa and Bossa nova music. Maysa showed talent at a young age and by twelve had written a samba, which later became a hit from her first album. She married a member of an old-money family at 18 and two years later had a son, Jayme Monjardim. Jayme would later be known as a television director. In the late 1950s she formed a successful bossa nova group and also did television work. In the 1970s she acted on a few telenovelas in Brazil and also composed the soundtrack for a telenova. She died in a road accident in 19