Carolina Cardoso de Meneses

An musician who, with her exclusive rhythm believe that is not distributed to any pianist of her generation, helped to blur the series that divides the favorite in the erudite. Carolina Cardoso de Meneses acquired a formal pianistic education, but devoted herself to function in the favorite field. Her single piano albums pull from previous resources of the same strategy, just like the composer Ernesto Nazareth, who acquired his works documented by her in her Música de Ernesto Nazareth and additional albums. She caused Garoto as well as the Trio Surdina and was among the 1st music artists to adapt the jazz idiom to Brazilian music; she was also among the precursors from the bossa nova motion. She was among the pioneers of Brazilian rock and roll, having released her Brasil Rock and roll in 1957. She got achievement with her instrumental compositions (her biggest strike with this genre becoming 1942’s “European union Sou Perform Barulho”) and her tracks with lyrics (mainly by Armando Fernandes) had been documented by performers like Francisco Alves, Ângela Maria, Orlando Silva, Sílvio Caldas, Isaurinha Garcia, Cauby Peixoto, and Wanderley Cardoso. She followed many nationwide big-time performers in radio and theatre performances and in addition accompanied the worldwide celebrities Josephine Baker, Pedro Vargas, and Charles Trenet within their Brazilian trips. In 1968, her marcha-rancho “Aquela Rosa Que Você Me Deu” (with Armando Fernandes) got the next place in the II Concurso de Músicas de Carnaval da Cidade da Guanabara (the older name of the town of Rio de Janeiro), interpreted by Ellen de Lima. In the ’90s she was still energetic, having documented her last Compact disc in 1997, Preludiando. Girl of pianist Osvaldo Cardoso de Meneses, Carolina Cardoso de Meneses started her formal piano research at 13 after many years of self-teaching. She graduated from the Instituto Nacional de Música in 1930 and continuing to review (theory and tranquility). In the same yr, at age group 14, she participated in the historical recording from the samba “Na Pavuna” (Almirante/Homero Dornelas), when, for the very first time, a batuque was documented at a studio room with the entire percussion arranged. She was employed by Rádio Sociedade perform Rio de Janeiro and in addition worked in a number of of the very most essential stations of this period, hosting her very own present O Piano da Carolina at Rádio Nacional. In 1931, she composed and documented the music from the film Mulher (Otávio Gabus Mendes). In 1932, she documented her structure “Preludiando” (Odeon) for the very first time. In 1942, she documented some 78s with Garoto, Garoto e Carolina. She documented many albums in her longer career, among the last getting Fafá e Carolina (1989), distributed to violinist Fafá Lemos.