Tag Archives: Bossa Nova

Badi Assad is among Brazil’s most talented performers. A heartfelt vocalist who sings in British and Portuguese and is well known on her behalf Bobby McFerrin-like improvisations, Assad can be among the country’s really accomplished guitarists. In 1995, Assad was voted Greatest Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitarist by editors of GUITARIST, while …

Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum features Antonio Carlos Jobim’s child, guitarist/vocalist Paulo Jobim, and his grandson, pianist/vocalist Daniel Jobim, alongside cellist Jacques Morelenbaum and his wife, vocalist Paula Morelenbaum. Apart from Daniel, all the group’s users were users of Jobim’s last music group before his loss of life in 1994, and Jacques Morelenbaum …

Nara Leão, the Musa da Bossa Nova (Bossa Nova’s Muse, as she actually is affectionately known), was a prominent number in bossa nova. She didn’t restrict herself like a bossa nova vocalist, though, and was among the 1st artists to activate within the motion later referred to as “canção de …

The little girl of singers Dorival Caymmi and Stella Maris (Adelaide Tostes Caymmi), Nana Caymmi is even so a recognised singer on her behalf own, as corroborated by her extensive discography and two gold records. Also a composer, she’s been documented by giants such as for example Milton Nascimento. Nana …

Rosinha de Valença was at her top through the ’60s when she was executing on the Bottle’s nightclub in Rio (among the things of bossa nova). For the reason that 10 years, she was celebrated by essential performers like Baden Powell, Maria Bethânia, Aloysio de Oliveira (who asked her to …

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 …

Paris-based Brazilian chanteuse Salomé de Bahia found the worldwide dancefloor via Bob Sinclair, the hip French producer and head from the cosmopolitan Yellowish Productions label. It had been the middle-’90s when Sinclair went to a revue hosted by bandleader Edvaldo Carneiro in the fashionable Parisian golf club Café Felix. From …

During the period of a global career, Joyce (aka Joyce Moreno) has recorded over 21 solo discs and over 300 of her songs by a number of the greatest names in Brazilian and international music, such as for example Flora Purim, Milton Nascimento, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, among others. Her …

The author of bossa nova classics like “O Barquinho,” “Ah, Se Eu Pudesse,” “Errinho ? Tôa,” “Nós e o Mar,” “Rio,” “Você,” and “Vagamente,” Roberto Menescal started his professional career in 1957 as Sylvia Telles’ sideman (on guitar) within a tour around Brazil. In 1958, he opened up a guitar …

Starting her job before Brazilian rock and roll from the ’80s was commercially ripe, Marina Lima observed its creation from a privileged standpoint and participated within it as an effective pop star since 1984. Her most regular partner continues to be her sibling, philosopher Antônio Cícero. Her biggest strikes are …