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A soulful lyricist with an outsider’s point of view (and therefore lacking in business problems), Edvaldo Santana launched his first album in 1976, Matéria-Prima. He was a normal through the bubbling picture across the Lira Paulistana movie theater in São Paulo, in the past due ’70s and early ’80s, where …

Selma Reis is a talented singer who’s focused on a private repertory. Her family members had a solid enthusiasm for serestas, that was fundamental for the shaping of her like for music. Reis researched vocal technique in Brazil and France. In 1987 she documented her first recording, Selma Reis (self-employed). …

Distinguished author of the Estácio hill Nilton Bastos had great success using the songs he wrote with Ismael Silva. Many of his tracks have other companions besides Ismael Silva, but those had been well-known or rich people who either bought his sambas or requested relationship to record them. Mário Reis, …

Internationally awarded author of a lot more than 100 film soundtracks, and in addition a significant inspiration for the Tropicalia movement, Júlio Medaglia can be an active jazz and MPB arranger aswell, employed in several countries. He started his musical research with Hans Joachim Koellreutter. In 1961, asked from the …

The Bando da Lua was the first in Brazil to harmonize voices and also have success overseas. From 1931 to 1940, they documented 38 albums in Brazil with 74 tunes and many strikes, including “Tristeza,” “A Hora é Boa,” “Mangueira,” “Menina que Pinta o Sete,” “Que é que Maria Tem?,” …

Bonfiglio de Oliveira, an extraordinary trumpeter, is definitely the finest of his period. He also excelled like a composer, with many marchas-rancho, the march “Carolina” (popular from the Carnival of 1934, created with Hervé Cordovil), the waltzes “Glória” (with lyrics by Branca M. Coelho and documented in 1931 by Gastão …

José Carlos Capinam was a simple impact in the motion referred to as Tropicalia. He not merely inspired the very best statistics Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil along with his poetry, but along with his philosophical/ideological sights aswell. He in addition has created lyrics for such composers as Edu Lobo, …

Herivelto Martins was probably one of the most successful performers and composers of Brazilian Popular Music. His compositions became accurate classics: in 1936, “Acorda, Escola de Samba” (with Benedito Lacerda), documented by Sílvio Caldas for Odeon; “Duas Lágrimas” (with Benedito Lacerda), documented by Nestor Amaral for Odeon; “Se o Morro …

Geraldo Vandré was in the maximum of his creative impetus and recognition when he was pressed by Brazilian dictatorship in 1968. Exiled, he came back silent. Criticizing mass tradition, he retired from creative manifestations, living by itself in his house in São Paulo, while his functions have been continuously re-recorded. …

Evaldo Rui began in radio in the ’30s along with his sibling Haroldo Barbosa. His initial work was at Rádio Philips, as helper in the displays Casé and Horas perform Outro Mundo, shortly becoming a sports activities commentator. He also proved helpful at the air channels Educadora, Guanabara, Nacional, Cajuti, …