| Mel | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Maria Bethânia |
| Border: | yes |
| Recorded: | 1979 |
| Genre: | MPB, samba |
| Label: | PolyGram |
| Producer: | Perinho Albuquerque, Maria Bethânia[1] |
| Prev Title: | Álibi |
| Prev Year: | 1978 |
| Next Title: | Talismã |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
Mel is a studio album by Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia, released in 1979.[2]
The New York Times praised the title track, writing that Bethânia "declaims the highly poetic, startlingly sexual words as if singing a national anthem, and yet the song remains sly and infectious."[3]