Brazilian Music

Gilberto Gil - Palco

leslie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:04:21 +0000

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil, is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and his political commitment. Since 2003, he has been serving as his country’s Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY4RTonbUCw

Kaoma - Lambada

leslie — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:08:47 +0000

Kaoma was a pop group made in France with the following members: Chyco Dru (bassist), Jacky Arconte (guitarist), Jean-Claude Bonaventure (producer and keyboardist), Michel Abihssira (drums and percussion), Fania (vocals), and Braz Loalwa (lead singer), Chico and Roberta (dancers). In 1989, they had a major chart-topping hit with their dance music single Lambada, a translation of Llorando se fue, which gave rise to the Lambada dance craze.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2479995061699164145

CéU - Malemolencia

leslie — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:05:42 +0000

CéU, whose full name is Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees label in April 2007. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil on April 17, 1980, into a musical family. Her name CéU means sky in Portuguese.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-9C9E2YVz8

Raimundo Fagner - Amor Escondido

leslie — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:52:10 +0000

Raimundo Fagner Cândido Lopes, born in Orós, Ceará on October 13, 1949, is a Brazilian singer, composer, musician, actor and music producer. He has had a distinguished career as a performer, singer, songwriter and composer for over 3 decades.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7gmonlzOrk

Chico Buarque - Construção

leslie — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:07:50 +0000

Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), popularly known as Chico Buarque, is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, and writer. He is best known for his music which often comments on Brazil’s social, economic and cultural reality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7mHf-UCZp0

Caetano Veloso - Fale com Ela

leslie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:07:13 +0000

Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. He has been called one of the greatest songwriters of the century and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil. Veloso is most known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9kRUY4WLFI

Zeca Baleiro - Bandeira

leslie — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:56:18 +0000

Zeca Baleiro is a Brazilian MPB (Música Popular Brasileira, or Brazilian Popular Music) solo artist who was born on April 11, 1966. One of his most famous songs is Salão de Beleza, which was featured on Putumayo World Music’s Reggae Around the World compilation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr_u5T7DY_8

Blitz - New Age

leslie — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:55:24 +0000

Blitz was the first Brazilian rock band to achieve mainstream success and to have hit singles kick-starting the movement the 1980s boom that would later be called BRock. Its classic formation included Evandro Mesquita (voice), Lobão(drums, later Roberto “Juba” Gurgel), Antônio Pedro Fortuna (bass, formerly with Os Mutantes and Lulu Santos), William Forghieri (keyboards) and Fernanda Abreu and Márcia Bulcão (backing vocals).

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=7828126

Fernanda Abreu - Kátia Flávia

leslie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:45:25 +0000

Fernanda Sampaio de Lacerda Abreu, more commonly known as Fernanda Abreu, was born on Rio de Janeiro at September 8, 1961. She was the backing vocal of the band Blitz until 1986. After that, in 1990, she started a solo career singing funk, disco and dance music, achieving great success in her native country. Since then, Abreu has been considered the first lady of Brazilian funk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA0EwjOGNoQ

Sérgio Mendes - Mas Que Nada

Dave — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:06:27 +0000

Sergio Mendes is a grammy award winning Brazilian musician who has been trained as a classical pianist but also has a strong interest in jazz . His first disc from 1961 was titled Dance Moderno. He has contrinued to produce follow-up his and his 2008 disc was titled Encanto.