Jazz Articles about David Blackwell Jr.

Marco Antonio Santos: About: Silence

by Katchie Cartwright
May 5, 2023

Marco Antonio Santos grew up in Betim, an industrial city in southeastern Brazil. His father, an automotive tooling designer, listened to North American Top-40 radio (Bee Gees, John Denver). At family gatherings, Uncle Fabiano sang such Brazilian popular classics as Noel Rosa's “Com que Roupa?," accompanying himself on guitar and inspiring a twelve-year-old Marco Antonio to pick up the instrument. Music was not a popular career choice in Santos' blue-collar hometown, so he didn't consider it for himself, but his ...