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Humberto Araujo

Starting as a specialist in the ’80s, Humberto Araújo worked well as an arranger and instrumentalist for João Donato, Tim Maia, Jorge Ben Jor, Ivan Lins, Paralamas perform Sucesso, Elza Soares, Leny Andrade, Zé Ramalho, Carlos Lyra, Leila Pinheiro, Nelson Gonçalves, and Noca da Portela, amongst others. Like a composer, …

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Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc

Famed because of their appearance in Christophe Barratier’s 2004 Oscar-nominated Les Choristes, Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc (known in Spain as Los Chicos del Coro de Saint-Marc) are among the world’s most well-known children’s choirs. Produced in 1986 by movie director Nicolas Porte at Lyon’s Saint-Marc University, the blended choir …

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Clã

Because of their sophisticated flavor and pop sensibility, Clã (meaning “clan”) became a 90’s and 00’s Portuguese pop mainstay. In 1992 music artists Helder Goncalves (piccolo bass), Manuela Azevedo (vocals), Miguel Ferreira (keyboards), Pedro Biscaia (keyboards), Pedro Rito (bass) and Fernando Goncalves (drums) arrived together to developing Clã. Four years …

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Miguel Funi

Miguel Funi is among flamenco’s less popular vocalists and dancers. Known affectionately as “Un Funi”, Funi was highlighted in the 1989 multi-artist compilation, Cante Flamenco, performing two music — “Solea” and “Bulerias” — followed by Guitarists Paco and Juan Del Gastor.

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Enzo Gragnaniello

Italian singer/songwriter Enzo Gragnaniello makes literate, personal music that often combines modern pop idioms with Neapolitan song traditions. Blessed in Naples in 1954, Gragnaniello started writing music at age group 18. In 1977, he produced the group Banchi Nuovi. With the ’80s, he’d shifted to a single profession. He released …

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Pedro Caldeira Cabral

He takes on beautiful music about a beautiful device, and if it doesn’t help to make a person happy, then what could? He certainly appears pretty content on the trunk cover of his Compact disc Varioces, keeping his petite Portugese acoustic guitar and beaming benevolently. He is becoming among the …

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Jesús Guridi

Beyond Spain, Jesús Guridi remains to be a generally obscure name, but he’s perhaps being among the most underrated composers from the twentieth hundred years and thus probably one of the most worth revival. He accomplished distinction like a author of orchestral and choral music, and especially of opera (or …

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Manuela Carrasco

With her 1973 debut, Manuela Carrasco helped to release a fresh era of flamenco dance, bringing an unprecedented energy and imagination to her choreography. Relating to Flamenco Globe, “the effectiveness of her ft, the vigor of her motions astonishe the general public; who, by many, appointed her expert of the …

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Cícero Nunes

Cicero Nunes was an effective composer who also, in his best period, had popular each year. Nunes was documented by eminent performers such as for example Castro Barbosa, Carmen Miranda, Dircinha Batista, Barbosa Júnior, Patrício Teixeira, Araci de Almeida, Orlando Silva, Francisco Alves, Nelson Gonçalves, Isaurinha Garcia, Anísio Silva, Isaurinha …

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Henrique Annes

Henrique Annes, creator from the Orquestra de Cordas Dedilhadas de Pernambuco (Orchestra of Fingered Strings of Pernambuco), the Oficina de Cordas carry out Recife (Recife Strings Workshop, another group), and of the Orquestra Armorial (Armorial Orchestra), continues to be performing like a soloist of chamber and symphonic orchestras both in …

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