Dilermando Reis

Dilermando Reis can be an icon from the Brazilian violão. His anachronistic design of playing and composing — completely passionate, plangent — continues to be deemed sentimentally by many today. In his huge discography (he documented until 2 yrs before his loss of life at 61), his like for days gone by was in charge of the rediscovery of the fantastic composer João Pernambuco. Having a distance of several years since Pernambuco’s loss of life, the awarded traditional guitarist Turíbio Santos started to sign-up Pernambuco’s functions. Reis continued to be an achieved violonista, and his compositions remain performed today in the original rodas de choro and becoming documented. As a teacher, Reis counted among his disciples the chief executive Juscelino Kubitschek as well as the violonistas Bola Sete and Darci Vilaverde. Reis was the boy of the violonista (classical guitar participant), Francisco Reis, who was simply also his 1st instructor. At 17, Reis went to a recital in his town of Guaratinguetá from the violonista Levino da Conceição. Excited from the dexterity from the blind musician, Reis became his accompanist through the entire tour of upcountry Brazil. Following a while he shifted to Rio de Janeiro, where he became a violão instructor in the renowned traditional music shops of those instances (which remain even today), Bandolim de Ouro and Guitarra de Prata. In 1935, he opened up on Radio Clube perform Brasil, shown by Renato Murce. Quickly his mastery in the accompaniment of the fantastic singers of these times was broadly recognized, and he became energetic in additional radios, like the many renowned Rádio Nacional, where he worked well until 1969. On August 18, 1936, Elizeth Cardoso started her professional profession in the display Programa Suburbano (Rádio Guanabara), that was kept by performers like Reis himself, Vicente Celestino, Noel Rosa, Aracy de Almeida, among others. Reis’s 1st 78 arrived in 1941, along with his waltz “Noite de Lua” and his choro “Magoado.” In the time between 1941 and 1942 he became a member of an orchestra of violõsera which enlivened advanced evenings in the Cassino da Urca, carrying out also within the Rádio Clube perform Brasil. In 1953, he toured the U.S., saving for CBS. His waltz “Abismo de Rosas,” still well-known even today in a few circles, was probably one of the most expressive recordings for Continental (Brazil) through the fertile period between 1950 and 1960. In 1972 he documented the LP Dilermando Reis Interpreta Pixinguinha and in 1975, released O Violão Brasileiro de Dilermando Reis, both for Continental.