Paulo Vanzolini

Paulo Vanzolini, with Adoniran Barbosa, is known as the biggest consultant of the samba of São Paulo. Your physician by education (1947) and a zoologist (recognized internationally among the most eminent) by job, Vanzolini even so also held bohemian behaviors throughout his youngsters and maturity, often having been linked to music and malandragem (road smarts). Having began to compose sambas in the 1940s, shortly he became a talented verse improviser; his lyrics are chronicles both from the bohemian and metropolitan São Paulo and of the upstate life-style. Being a composer, his biggest strikes will be the samba “Volta por Cima,” released in 1962 by Noite Ilustrada (and afterwards re-recorded, among numerous others, by Maria Bethânia) and contained in Gláuber Rocha’s O Moveão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro (1969, with Rocha becoming awarded as the very best Movie director atthe Cannes Film Event); as well as the samba-canção “Ronda,” created in 1945 and released by Inesita Barroso in 1953, becoming very popular until today and getting an anthem of the town of São Paulo. The music became effective in Márcia’s re-recording in the 1960s, also documented later on by Maria Bethânia (on her behalf LP Álibi, a top-seller of 1978), Nora Ney, Carmen Costa, and Ângela Maria, amongst others. In 1967, Vanzolini’s friend and partner Luís Carlos Paraná and Marcus Pereira created for Fermata the LP Paulo Vanzolini: Onze Sambas e Uma Capoeira, which Vanzolini’s tunes had been interpreted by Chico Buarque, Luís Carlos Paraná, and additional artists. Composing lyrics and melodies by himself, Vanzolini also acquired partnerships with Toquinho, in the middle-’60s, prior to the composer produced his duo with Vinícius de Moraes. In 1967, Vanzolini and Toquinho participated in the II Celebration Internacional da Canção (International Melody Festival, FIC, Television Globo) with one particular music, “Na Boca da Noite,” earning the São Paulo stage. Vanzolini also acquired as companions Luís Carlos Paraná, Paulinho Nogueira, Adauto Santos, and Elton Medeiros. In 1974, Cristina Buarque called her first LP, Cara Limpa, following the title of the Paulo Vanzolini samba. The label Marcus Pereira released for the reason that same calendar year the LP A Música de Paulo Vanzolini, interpreted by Carmen Costa and Paulo Marques. In 1997, Vanzolini was paid tribute on the School of São Paulo using a present which released previously unpublished compositions like “Quando European union For, European union Vou Sem Pena.” 2 yrs afterwards, he was once again paid homage through the commemorations from the 447th wedding anniversary of the town of São Paulo within a show on the Sesc Pompéia hall. In 2001, Vanzolini’s comprehensive works begun to end up being recorded by chosen interpreters for the four-CD box established.