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Cauby Peixoto is known as by many as Brazil’s best singer. Along with his velvety and low timbre, inspired by Orlando Silva and Nat “Ruler” Cole, Peixoto coined a person design interpreting a kaleidoscope of styles which range from tongue-in-cheek cheesy boleros to mambo (specifically in the first ’70s), intimate …

Oscar Castro-Neves was a gifted Brazilian musician who have lived in the U.S. after 1966. Besides his essential contribution towards the motion usually referred to as bossa nova, he also got part in tasks with Joe Henderson (including their shows in the JVC Jazz Event) along with other great titles …

As the author of over 400 songs, like the classics “Samba, Agoniza Mas Não Morre” (documented by Beth Carvalho in 1978) and “Cântico ? Natureza/Quatro Estaçõsera do Ano” (“Primavera”), Nelson Sargento is from the history of samba from 1934 when he was parading in the Azul e Branco samba college …

Through the 1940s with the 1960s, lyricist Ray Gilbert wrote songs produced famous by pop vocalists and Disney features, and translated a lot of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s songs into English. A number of the many Jobim tracks Gilbert translated consist of “Dindi,” “Amor em Paz” (“Once I Loved”), “Samba Torto” …

The eclectic, acoustic-oriented sounds of Green Martini haven’t been an easy task to categorize, but that hasn’t prevented the Portland, Oregon-based band from acquiring a devoted, enthusiastic cult following. Green Martini have provided a risk-taking mixture of jazz (generally swing), globe music, cabaret, lounge, and ’40s-’50s film music, with affects …

An uncommon designer with an unusual sopranino tone of voice, Ney Matogrosso fell in the Brazilian popular music picture just like a bomb within the ’70s aboard the Secos e Molhados. The finish of the group designated the start of a fertile and effective single career where he began discovering …

Lúcio Alves was an excellent interpreter of Brazilian music. Tom Jobim stated he’s “a formidable vocalist, he deserved the best well-known acclamation, but paid the price tag on being an musician before his period.” João Gilberto was a announced enthusiast of his performing interpretation and his vocal and harmonic preparations …

Dick Farney was a superb singer, instrumentalist, and composer who contributed decisively towards the reconstruction of Brazilian well-known music using the incorporation of jazz harmonies and design. Having been the very first musician ever to record “Tenderly,” which would become a global hit later within the interpretation of Nat “Ruler” …

Producing the virtuosic and vigorous design of samba-jazz her main subject of expression, Leny Andrade obtained a good reputation like a singer and improviser, recognized by the many best musicians who’ve performed with her, such as for example Paquito D’Rivera (who considers Andrade his favorite singer), Luiz Eça, Dick Farney, …

Eumir Deodato has participated seeing that pianist/keyboardist, manufacturer, or arranger in over 450 albums, and it has won 16 platinum information. The set of best performers with whom he offers collaborated is as well intensive to cite, but contains Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jobim, Wes Montgomery, João Donato, Kool …