Canto de Ossanha is a Brazilian tune by Baden Powell and Vinícius de Moraes from the 1966 album Os Afro-Sambas. It fuses Afro-Brazilian sounds drawn from Bahian candomblé with samba and jazz influences. The lyrics tell of falling under the spell of Ossanha, an orixá who mediates between human and deity, using love as a dangerous enchantment. The track features Powell on guitar and Amauri Coelho on frame drum, with Quarteto em Cy providing the vocal textures during the Os Afro-Sambas sessions. It was produced by Joachim Ernst Berendt and Wadi Gebara Netto and is noted as a landmark in Brazilian music, ranking number 9 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 greatest Brazilian songs.
