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Stephen Guerra

Um Violão na Cidade Maravilhosa

By Stephen Guerra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Choro-Funk; No Balanço de Niterói; Gente da Roça; Linda Nina; Mico-Leão; Uma Valsa pra Nós Dois; Neve Leve; Abraço no Rogerito; Um Negocinho pro Tito; Uma Tarde em Jurujuba.

Stephen Guerra: Um Violão na Cidade Maravilhosa

by Katchie Cartwright
July 19, 2026

Buffalo-based guitarist-songwriter and professor Stephen Guerra's notation has developed a slight Brazilian accent. You notice it in small things like a major chord symbol with a capital “M."  Who is reading these charts? Musicians in several choro communities around the globe, as it turns out. Take “Um Negocinho pro Tito," (track 9). Guerra first ...

Stephen Guerra: No Balan​ç​o do Choro​-​Samba

by Katchie Cartwright
January 17, 2025

Guitarist Stephen Guerra was finishing up his undergraduate degree in engineering when he became enchanted with Brazilian music. It was the guitar and song magic of Baden Powell with its mysterious metric ambiguity. Upon graduating, he took a job in personal wealth management, teaching himself to play guitar and read music on the side. After a ...

No Balan​ç​o do Choro​-​Samba

By Stephen Guerra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Um Negocinho pro Tito; Alegria; As Cataratas do Niágara; Já valeu; Choro pra Lia; A Lívia Comprou Chiclete; Acorde Vagabundo; O Tom do Rossini; Lembranças de Niterói.