Tag Archives: Samba

The first Brazilian percussionist to have success after João da Baiana, Russo do Pandeiro also had a noted international career. perform Pandeiro found Rio along with his family members at three. He performed the pandeiro for the very first time at a celebration in the Penha borough on Oct 6, …

Author of several classics from the golden period of Brazilian track, Henrique Vogeler was also an experienced pianist and author of successful operettas. Child of Jaime Vogeler, he started his piano research at five, later on completing the program in the Conservatório Nacional de Música. He was sometimes an alternative …

Newton Teixeira, sibling from the violonista (classical guitar participant) Valzinho, was a composer and instrumentalist with sound masterpieces recorded by among the better interpreters of his period. At ten, Teixeira initiated his musical research on mandolin with Chico Neto. At 14, he began to find out the violão (classical guitar). …

Roberto Martins was the author of many classics from the Golden Age group of the Brazilian track, recorded by lots of the best interpreters of the time. His first tracks were created when he was 15. Leonel Faria documented the tracks “Regenerado” and “Segredo” for the very first time in …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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, …