Riachão

Probably one of the most important historical sambistas of Brazil, Riachão is — along with Batatinha, Walmir Lima, Ederaldo Gentil, Nélson Rufino, and Edil Pacheco — the cream from the Bahian samba. An effective artist of the air in the 1940s and 1950s, Riachão also worked well in the movies A Grande Feira (Roberto Pires, 1961) and Pastores da Noite (Marcel Camus, 1972). He paid tribute to Batatinha within the recording Diplomacia, interpreting, as well as Batatinha, Ederaldo Gentil, Nélson Rufino, Walmir Lima, and Edil Pacheco, “De Revólver, Não!” (Batatinha/Walmir Lima). Subsequently, Riachão was paid tribute in the documentary Samba Riachão (by Jorge Alfredo), offered in 2001 in the Film Event of Brasília, where admirers of his function like Caetano Veloso (who documented with achievement his “Cada Macaco no seu Galho”), Gilberto Gil, Dorival Caymmi, and Tom Zé, amongst others, offered shifting testimonies. His picturesque method of composing songs changed him in to the musical chronicler from the older Salvador (Bahia’s capital). Every relevant occurring in the town, like the arson in the Mercado Modelo (“Incêndio perform Mercado Modelo”), was portrayed by him in the tempo from the Bahian samba and a straight-ahead and well-known language. His strategy has other superb good examples in sambas like “Retrato da Bahia,” “Bochechuda,” and “Papuda,” compositions that taken to him the Gonzaga trophy. Created and elevated in the Garcia borough, since age group nine Riachão had been frequenting serenatas and batucadas around a nearby, composing his first structure, a samba, at 12. In 1944, he was employed from the Rádio Sociedade, where he performed inside a vocal trio in the Display Pindorama auditorium system. Released by Antônio Maria using the music “Vida da Semana,” Riachão became a single singer. Affected by Dorival Caymmi, he made a decision to spend himself to samba. After Caymmi, Riachão was the initial Bahian composer to possess songs documented in Rio de Janeiro in the ’50s: “Meu Patrão,” “Saia,” and “Judas Traidor,” simply by Jackson perform Pandeiro. Eraldo Oliveira afterwards documented “A Nega Que Não Quer Nada,” as well as the vocalist Maria Inês documented “Terra Santa.” Riachão also acquired “Vamos Pular, Gente” and “Vá Mamar em Outro Lugar” documented by other performers.