Garra is an album by Brazilian musician Marcos Valle, in the Música popular brasileira genre, released in 1971 by the Odeon record label.
Valle, with his brother, Paulo Sérgio Valle, joined the Odeon Records to produce Garra. It was released in 1971 by Odeon as an LP record. In 2001, a compact disc (CD) version was also released in Japan by Odeon. In the United States, in 2013, a new version was released on LP and another on CD by Light In The Attic Records.
John Bush, writing for AllMusic called the album "a Baroque masterpiece of easy listening Brazilian pop, ⦠the most entertaining album of Marco's career, and perhaps the best Brazilian pop album of all time." Bush noted that "nearly every song has a bridge as strong as or stronger than the main melody", praising the album and stating that it was a "masterpiece". Journalist Mauro Ferreira, in his blog on G1, stated that the album marks "Valle's embrace of soul music."
Josh Tautz and Felipe Mejia, writing for The Vinyl Factory, praised the album, calling it "a Brazilian pop masterpiece, featuring some first rate studio musicians and arrangers", while calling the title track "gorgeous baroque pop". The album ranked 225th on a list of the 500 greatest Brazilian albums, in a poll of more than 160 music experts conducted by the ' podcast. The album was one of two works by Valle mentioned on the list, along with Previsão do Tempo which ranked 142nd.
The following musicians worked on the album: