Results for "Sao Paulo"

Thiago Pach

Born: June 30, 1983

A Brazilian professional actor and singer, Thiago Pach is well known for his strong and versatile tenor voice and for his sensitive performances of an eclectic musical selection that goes from Blues and Jazz songs to the most extraordinary Brazilian popular music repertory. He started his studies in drama when he was fourteen, in O Tablado, a drama school from Maria Clara Machado. At this age he was already strongly involved in theater and music. He was born in Rio de Janeiro on the 30th of June 1983. Music was a big part of his childhood: in his home he has listened to a lot of different kinds of music

Antonio Valdetaro

Born: May 1, 1962

ANTONIO VALDETARO launches “Leticia”, his first CD The guitarist, along with his band, just launched the first album with his own composition. An excellent guitarist, Antonio Valdetaro is also an untiring traveler. Nevertheless, he is a traveler with a unique character: the type who falls in love for the new and the different that dwells in each place. He is a lover who renders himself affectionately to the unexpected and settles himself there. That was the case when he settled residency in Europe after touring through Portugal, France, Germany and Spain. And it was not different when this musician from Niteroi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) decided to live in Brazilian cities other than his hometown Niteroi Rio de Janeiro: Salvador, Belo Horizonte and São Paulo, where he has been living since 1999

Marco Pontes

Born: January 28, 1962

Started at the age of 4 years old, he is a very gifted musician. Maestro and pianist, he can also arrange an entire orchestra. He performed and recorded withManolo Otero, Julio Iglesias, Jens Winther, Tania Maria, Dorival Caymmi,Michel Legrand and others. Now a days his dominical band performance,as a Director and piano player, takes part at DOmingao do Faustao

Samuel Quinto FRSA

Born: September 5, 1973

Samuel Quinto Feitosa, FRSA (born September 5, 1973) is a Brazilian pianist of jazz, pop, gospel, and classical music, as well a music producer, composer, arranger, educator, and writer who has lived in Portugal since 2004. Quinto grew up in Salvador, where he developed his art mainly on piano. Samuel Quinto was born in Belém, Pará, but grew up in Salvador, Bahia. From the age of seven, he developed his musical talent by virtue of contact with the piano through the gospel, accompanied Baptist Church who attended during childhood with his family in Salvador. Then Samuel took the first steps on piano in the family home, always without accompanying teachers, and developed his piano skills learning also, as an autodidact, harmony, reading and writing music and orchestration, musical composition, arranging for the church choir, which starts playing as a pianist at age 12. In Europe Samuel Quinto published his first CD "Latin Jazz Thrill" in 2007, in Portugal, with trio formation (Bass, Piano and Drums), which forms the core of his repertoire at various festivals and concerts during the years 2007 and 2008 in Portugal, and during his 2008 tour in which shows in cities like Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Heilbronn, Liege and Limoges; plus a special concert held in Salvador in partnership with the Catholic University of Salvador in June 2008

Marcelo Coelho

A native of Brazil, Marcelo Coelho began his music studies when he was fourteen years old. His first instruments were the clarinet and the alto saxophone. When he was eighteen years old, he changed to the tenor saxophone that would become his main instrument.He finished his bachelor in Popular Music at Campinas State University - UNICAMP, in 1999. During the undergraduate studies, he played in several combos which include jazz bands, Brazilian jazz combos, big bands, as well as dancing bands. Because jazz has exerted a great influence and attraction in his musical formation, he developed during his undergraduate years a research project entitled The Harmonic Concepts of Bebop

Conrado Paulino

Style "...is like an effortless blend of Joe Pass and Baden Powell" [Fabio Carrilho, Violão PRO Magazine, Brazil]
The style of guitarist, composer and arranger Conrado Paulino is an original fusion of three major musical schools. The first one embraces the repertoire of Brazilian music, a universe from which his creative basis takes its shape.
The second one reveals itself in a jazzy influence that becomes conspicuous in its harmonically modern concept and its ample room for improvisation on his arrangements.
The last one is the utilization of classical guitar techniques, notably in his use of arpeggios and counter-melodies

Lea Freire

Born: February 26, 1957

LEA FREIRE's "Cartas Brasileiras" (Brazilian Letters - 2007) is receiving the enthusiastic applause of either public and critic, in many languages. Its music is the confluence of the three main musical forces that coexist in Brazil today : African, European and Native Indian. "Vento em Madeira", the first track of this album, is a beautifull combination of these influences. With an invited orquestra adding to 62 (sixty two) musicians, it is a colossal production of her label Maritaca, specialized in the best Brazilian Instrumental Music.

Her first CD, “Ninhal” (meaning the collective of birds nests), is still very well received by public and critic and some of the songs, specially 'Vatapa' have been recorded already in Japan, German, Italy, USA and by various artists in Brazil.

Paulo Tozzi

Born: February 13, 1971

Born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1971. In 1995 graduated with a diploma in Professional Music at Berklee College of Music. Lived in USA for 10 years. 5 in Boston and 5 in New York City.

Nanny Assis

Born: August 25, 1969

Meretrio

The Meretrio was brought together in São Paulo – Brasil, in 2004, as an initiative of Emiliano Sampaio (guitar and trombone), Gustavo Boni (acoustic and electric bass), and Luis André (drums and percussion), with the purpose of researching the diversity of popular music. In 2021, Meretrio releases its 7. album "Choros" playing only Brazilian music! Meretrio played in important Festivals in Europe, Australia and Brazil such as Bayerisches Jazz Weekend, Perth Jazz Fest, Fête de la Musique, Jazz´n More, Mikulassky Jazz Festival, SESC Sao Paulo, Jazz Na Fábrica, and in the famous concert halls Porgy & Bess in Vienna and Sendesaal in Bremen. In 2017 Meretrio released the album Óbvio featuring the saxophonist Heinrich Von Kalnein (Jazz Big Band Graz) in two tracks, which got four stars from the Downbeat Magazine and entered in the list “Best Albums of the Year”. In 2019, Meretrio recorded a new project asking the question: would it be possible to mix trombone, guitar and electronics in a way that the music is also playable in live situations? This was Meretrio´s main motivation to compose several compositions exploring different colors than the traditional jazz trio Guitar, Bass and Drums