February 11, 2024
Biography
An extremely popular singer from your ’40s before ’60s, Gilberto Alves had a few of his biggest hits with tunes like “Pombo Correio,” “Recordar é Viver,” “De Lanterna Na Mão,” “Agora É Tarde,” “Natureza Bela,” “Cecília,” and “Louca Pela Boêmia.” His professional debut like a vocalist was around 1935 in …
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February 4, 2024
Biography
This Richard Harris shifted his name right down to Dicky Harris early in his job, thus staying away from confusion using the Uk actor who gets tortured in the film A GUY Called Equine. The experienced trombonist still gets confusing with pedal metal guitarist Dickie Harris, nevertheless, resulting in the …
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February 3, 2024
Biography
Learning the flute when he was five, Manezinho da Flauta begun to take part in novice displays at Rádio Tupi (Rio de Janeiro) around 1930. At 15, he became an expert and was employed by Rádio Guanabara, another year signing up for the Farolito Danças dance music group. When Humberto …
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February 3, 2024
Biography
Arthur “Acoustic guitar Boogie” Smith began using the music group name Carolina Crackerjacks at least ahead of 1938 recording classes for the Bluebird label. This regular group would continue as you of Smith’s support units for pretty much the next half a hundred years. The Carolina Crackerjacks documented with Smith …
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February 1, 2024
Biography
In the mid-’30s Bob Lester achieved considerable success performing at Cassino da Urca, Cassino Quitandinha, as well as the casino on the Copacabana Palace Hotel, singing and tap dancing with Grande Otelo, Oscarito, and Mistinguette. Signing up for Carmen Miranda as well as the Bando da Lua, Lester followed the …
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January 26, 2024
Biography
When the Sarod Ghar (museum of Indian classical music), in Gwalior, India, began its collection, it had been fitting the fact that tabla (Indian drums) of Ustad Ahmed Jaan Thirakwa was included. Perhaps one of the most important players from the tabla, Thirakwa motivated several years of players who implemented …
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January 26, 2024
Biography
An integral figure in the internationalization of Brazilian well-known music, Aloysio de Oliveira participated in the complete job of Carmen Miranda overseas, using the Bando da Lua, and in addition produced other Brazilian artists in the U.S. Oliveira got many hits using the Bando da Lua, plus a significant discography. …
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January 25, 2024
Biography
Having launched the pandeiro in the samba, João da Baiana has enormous importance in the knowledge of the genre, having observed and influenced its passage from a collective folk creation towards the commercial metropolitan expression. He testified that this genre was created in the town, not really in the hillsides. …
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January 24, 2024
Biography
Raul Marques was a sambista in the ’30s and ’40s, having written several sambas which would remain uncredited seeing that his creations, seeing that he used to market them for peanuts because of poverty. A few of his regular customers had been Miguel Baúza and César Brasil, but Carlos Galhardo …
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January 24, 2024
Biography
Her biggest hit was the samba-canção “European union Sei Que Vou Te Amar” (Tom Jobim/Vinícius de Moraes), in 1959. She added to verify the nascent recognition from the duo with an LP focused on their compositions with many songs documented for the very first time, A Música de Jobim e …
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