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Having devoted her very existence towards the Portela samba college, Tia Surica, pastora from the Velha Guarda da Portela, is constantly on the commemorate the tradition of her college by regularly advertising a roda de samba (samba get-together) where in fact the biggest artists from the genre commemorate this music. …

Sebastião Tapajós is really a renowned Brazilian musician with over 50 recorded albums. A classically-trained violonista (classical guitar participant), he quickly awakened to his personal musical manifestation, which bridges the distance between the wealthy Brazilian tradition as well as the delicacy, subtlety, and class of the traditional custom. He received …

Born within the functioning course suburb of Ramos, Luís Carlos daVila became referred to as “the poet from the vilas” (villages) for his performing about the life span from the suburban folks of Vila Isabel, Vila Kennedy, and Vila da Penha. He had taken eight accordion classes and discovered the …

Often tagged because the father of Brazilian samba jazz, Luizão Maia continued to be a occupied session man more than many decades, especially accompanying vocalist Elis Regina for greater than a decade. Furthermore to Regina, Maia performed alongside a great many other noteworthy music artists during his energetic years, which …

Sister of Miúcha, Ana de Hollanda, and Chico Buarque, Cristina Buarque had her initial experience in a specialist environment on Chico Buarque’s Chico Buarque, Vol. 3, interpreting the melody “Sem Fantasia” (1968). Her initial solo LP emerged in 1974, Cristina, with her biggest strike, “Quantas Lágrimas” (Manacéia). The record was …

The Quarteto Novo was a seminal group with a solid Northeastern accent. They brought the custom of that area of Brazil and blended it using the bebop jazz vocabulary, the result therefore influential it broke ethnic and physical obstacles throughout the globe. You’ll be able to discern baião grooves in …

An important author of the samba from the hillsides, Martinho da Vila has written many effective sambas-enredo (the vehicles for the parades from the samba universities through the Carioca Carnival). Like a composer and interpreter, he offers documented a lot more than 30 LPs and CDs, a few of which …

Pepeu Gomes is really a virtuoso guitarist/mandolinist who had noted involvement within the ’70s revival of choro within the music group Operating-system Novos Baianos. His single career continues to be troubled with the hardships that prevent instrumental music artists in Brazil from developing their discoveries, but his documented material will …

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 …