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The author of a lot more than 200 sambas, Zé Kéti was probably one of the most important sambistas ever. A unique shape to bridge the distance between your hill and the town, he was the only person to produce tracks with bossa nova composers like Carlos Lyra in the …

Marcos Valle was the Renaissance guy of Brazilian pop, a vocalist/songwriter/producer who all straddled the country’s music globe from the first times of the bossa nova trend well in to the fusion-soaked audio of ’80s MPB. Though his popularity in America hardly ever quite in comparison to contemporaries like Caetano …

Guinga began his music studies like a self-taught violonista in 13. Later, he’d deepen his apprenticeship of traditional violão. At 16, he started to create his personal compositions and in 1967, he offered one of these at II FIC (Rede Globo, Rio). In 1973, MPB-4 documented two of his tunes …

Occasionally called “the Woody Allen” of France, Agnes Jaoui is most beneficial known on her behalf acting (in El Atmosphere de Famille, Le Rôle de Sa Vie) aswell for her composing and directing (her debut being a movie director, The Flavor of Others, or Le Moveût des Autres, was nominated …

Alaíde Costa can be an essential interpreter who had great success in the ’60s. Her obstinate adherence to her sensitive style, especially suitable for the delicate Brazilian genre modinha, produced her be placed aside with the ethnic sector and she continued to be forgotten with the public until her reappearance …

Alcione has won 19 yellow metal information and two platinum information, having toured through the ex – U.S.S.R., Cabo Verde, Puerto Rico, Iran, U.S., Japan, Portugal, Mexico, Switzerland, Argentina, and Chile. Among her strikes, are “Não Deixe o Samba Morrer” (Edson/Aluísio), “Gostoso Veneno” (Wilson Moreira/Nei Lopes), “Sufoco” (Chico da Silva/Venâncio), …

Arlindo Cruz participated inside a saving for the very first time on Candeia’s album Roda de Samba. His 1st music, “Lição de Malandragem” (created in 1980), was documented by Davi Correia. He became a member of the group Fundo de Quintal in 1980. For the reason that samba group, which …

The founder of Os Novos Baianos, Moraes Moreira was the primary author of the group (with lyricist Luís Galvão). Departing for an extremely successful solo profession, he has documented many albums, usually fusing the wealthy folklore of Bahia with rock and roll and pop affects. He also became an ardent …

Adoniran Barbosa may be the main author of the samba from the condition and town of São Paulo. His compositions portray the life span in that town, evidencing the ethnic mixture of the Italian immigration as well as the hillbilly upstate accents within a samba design which is incredibly singularized …

Antônio Adolfo was a significant composer, having written tunes recorded by Nara Leão, Marisa Gata Mansa, Ângela Rô Rô, Dóris Monteiro, O Grupo, Wilson Simonal, Geraldo Vespar, Leci Brandão, Emílio Santiago, Beth Carvalho, and Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66, amongst others. Adolfo also experienced a mentioned role along the way …