Tag Archives: Bossa Nova

Of the first stars of MPB (música popular brasileira), Chico Buarque was among the first to become certifiable pop star. Along with his warm, nasally croon, elegant phrasing, and substantial skill at lyric composing, Buarque (who’s handsome on top of that) became popular with ladies, who cherished his understated sensuality. …

A local of Rio de Janeiro, Ithamara Koorax became a significant name in Brazilian pop-jazz within the 1990s. The vocalist comes from a family group of Polish Jews, who fled European countries during World Battle II. Blessed in Rio in 1965, Koorax was just a kid when she began monitoring …

Billy Blanco may be the author of more than 300 songs, a few of them written in collaboration with Tom Jobim, Baden Powell, Sebastião Tapajós, and Sílvio Caldas. His music had been recorded by a few of the most essential Brazilian artists of the moments, like Lúcio Alves, Dick Farney, …

Shaped by Márcio Menescal, son of bossa nova artist Roberto Menescal, Grammy Prize nominees Bossacucanova combine traditional bossa nova with electronica. Even when what “bossa nova” result in British as “brand-new influx,” the genre had been decades outdated when Menescal started the task in 1998. Bossacucanova released with Menescal plus …

What Bola Sete are Portuguese for the seventh ball within the billiard game, that is the only dark one. He got his nickname after getting the only dark man in a little group. From an early on age group, he was habitual in the Bohemian circles of Praça Tiradentes, Rio, …

Among Brazil’s best proponents and keepers from the gafieira custom (popular ballrooms historically from the Carioca folklore custom of highly artistic and swinging dance and performing) and something of the greatest choro players, Paulo Moura can be an internationally awarded musician whose great standards ensure it is possible for him …

Shaped by Tokyo acid jazz maven Gonzalez Suzuki, Soul Bossa Trio documented many albums of relaxing, exploratory jazz having a debt to fusion and Brazilian jazz but a dazzling feeling of interplay often without their club-centered contemporaries. Suzuki was originally an associate of Tokyo Panorama Mambo Young boys, Japanese jazz-pop …

b. c. 1978, Brazil. After operating effectively if obscurely in multi-media theatrical occasions and low-budget impartial films, Marquee started attracting attention like a singer-songwriter. Initially, this fame as well was just localized but steadily she became recognized to a very much wider audience, partly through her part as lead vocalist …

The song tradition of Brazil is fused with American cool jazz by sultry vocalist Ana Caram. With her light, sensual vocals arranged to lush preparations, Caram has taken a fresh sensibility towards the bossa nova. Having founded herself like a guaranteeing newcomer, Caram was urged by Antonio Carlos Jobim to …

An excellent middle-register trumpeter whose design seemed to virtually define “cool jazz,” Shorty Rogers was in fact even more significant for his arranging, both in jazz and in the film studios. After attaining early knowledge with Will Bradley and Crimson Norvo and portion in the armed forces, Rogers increased to …