Tag Archives: Choro

Donga was a central amount in the samba custom. The individual who initial documented a composition using the denomination samba (“Pelo Telefone” in 1916 [not really 1917 as generally noted]), Donga was also an achieved musician using a observed international profession in Pixinguinha’s Operating-system Oito Batutas and many other groupings. …

The main feminine figure of Brazilian popular music ever, Chiquinha Gonzaga was an unbiased woman in times of extreme prejudice and earned her cash with her own music. The 1st Brazilian feminine conductor, the 1st author of the marcha carnavalesca genre (with “Ô Abre Alas”), she was also extremely mixed …

An extremely competent violão (classical guitar) participant and guitarist, Zé Menezes also became well-known for his compositions. Through the ’40s through the ’50s he documented and performed on the air frequently with Radamés Gnattali, in the Quarteto Continental, and later on using the Quinteto Radamés. Upon the founding of Television …

Perhaps one of the most advanced flutists of his period, Agenor Bens participated in the initial audition from the functions by Villa-Lobos in Nova Friburgo RJ in 1915, as well as Villa-Lobos’ wife at that time, Lucília, and the composer on the violoncello. Bens documented many gramophone plates, which verify …

Not so important as a new player, Valzinho was an excellent composer, having still left classics like “Óculos Escuros” (with Orestes Barbosa, 1955; documented by Zezé Gonzaga and by Paulinho da Viola, 1971), “Doce Veneno” (with Carlos Lentine and Esperidião Machado Goulart, 1945; documented by Marion, Djalma Ferreira Group, Jamelão, …

The Regional perform Canhoto were formed in 1950 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Canhoto (born as Waldiro Frederico Tramontano in Rio de Janeiro, 1908). Canhoto, as his nickname attests, is usually a left-handed cavaquinho participant having a discreet, but recognizable, personal design coined after his upwards pick strokes. Regardless …

Viriato Figueira da Silva is among the fathers of choro, a means of using, or style, that was already defined around 1875, evolving until it constituted a genre, after 1900. da Silva also was the author of the polkas “Só Pra Moer” (documented in 1901 with the well-known flutist Patápio …

Fafá Lemos was a significant Brazilian musician in the ’40s through the ’70s. A violin virtuoso employed by the most important radio place (Nacional, that was intensely financed with the nationalist federal government of Obtainúlio Vargas), he used virtually all from the Brazilian superstars of those situations, documented a great …

Among the 10 sons of Domingos Palmieri and Idalina Falba, Raul and his sibling Jacó were users of the essential group Operating-system Oito Batutas, that was led by Pixinguinha, his sibling China, and Donga, amongst others. He was using the group since its starting Apr 7, 1919, in Cine Palais …

Virtuoso flutist Mathieu-André Reichert was also a composer, influenced by and an impact to Brazilian music. The impeccable flute technique of Reichert’s in touch with the Brazilian ginga of Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado Jr. is normally assumed to become the origin from the Brazilian flute lineage. The kid of …