Maria Elena
Los Indios Tabajaras
1963
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
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About Los Indios Tabajaras
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
Los Indios Tabajaras was the Brazilian guitar duo of brothers Antenor Moreyra Lima and Natalício Moreyra Lima. Their repertoire moved between popular melodies, folk material, original compositions and classical works by composers such as Chopin and Villa-Lobos. María Elena brought them a broad international audience, and extensive touring took their instrumental performances across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Artist background sources
Apple Music: About Los Indios Tabajaras
Licensed artist biography; brothers' identities, repertoire and international touring. The source's incorrect US chart peak and unverified early-life folklore are excluded; guitar instrumentation is additionally supported by a contemporary trade interview. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Cash Box: interview with Los Indios Tabajaras, 6 February 1971
Contemporary trade-publication interview, read in indexed retrieval, corroborates the guitar duo and international touring; no origin legend or exact release claim is used. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Maria Elena by Los Indios Tabajaras appears at number 96 in the reviewed U.S. year-end table for 1963. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
Billboard year-end 1963 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
Other appearances and versions
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Original release date and exact pressing/version are not independently established.
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Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
Billboard year-end 1963 table (Wikipedia transcription)
Secondary transcription reviewed 2026-10-11: title, artist and annual chart association; not original release date or complete recording metadata.
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