Aderbal duarte joao gilberto biography
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HISTORICAL RELEASE OF ALL NATIONAL ROCK, MPB AND BOLSA NOVA BANDS BY ROBERTO BARROS
I want to say here with a lot of deep love in beautiful words that national music reveals what we are because its lyrics can formalize us beneath our dilemmas that we trace in full life that has in our soul a little piece of Brazil in which national rock is made beneath a genuineness more focused on the daily life of ung Brazilians who spend their teens as a film more focused on their lives, we simplify a list of facts and ideas that makes us react under a fearless fantastic desire where all unmotivated stories of dreams are described between beautiful fantasies we look for answers from the past to the future in which we are simplified by a harmony that applies humor, character, love, hate, fear, adventure in all the shades that life proposes to us under an ego of happy living in which we it implies resuscitating under the old and restless foolishness of the youth that teaches us to live and we need t
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Van Botti
Whether he is traveling to the United States to perform during the legendary South bygd Southwest music festival or being recognized by Brazil’s Ministry of Culture for his work in music, Punk Bossa artist, Van Botti is creating something innovative, intelligent and sophisticated. Bringing tillsammans the irony and sarcasm funnen in Punk Poetry and infusing it with the musical flavor of Bossa Nova and Jazz, Van Botti is fostering an art that will leave fans laughing one moment and contemplating existential completeness the next.
Saying that rock was his first language as a composer, the Italo-Brazilian artist cites The Ramones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the Mutantes as some of his most important early influences. He was a student of one of the greatest guitar players in the history of Brazil, Aderbal Duarte. A scholar of Brazilian popular music, Van Botti transcribed for his master’s dissertation numerous works of João Gilberto. During the 1990’s, Van Botti was a member of
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Culture of Brazil
From top, left to right: capoeira, Tarsila do Amaral, Machado de Assis, Brazilian national team, Caipirinha, Pão de queijo, Church of São Francisco de Assis, a Tupi woman, Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Ouro Preto.
The culture of Brazil has been shaped by the amalgamation of diverse indigenous cultures, and the cultural fusion that took place among Indigenous communities, Portuguese colonists, and Africans, primarily during the Brazilian colonial period. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Brazil received a significant number of immigrants, primarily of Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and German origin, which along with smaller numbers of Japanese, Austrians, Dutch, Armenians, Arabs, Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, French, Russians, Swiss, Hungarians, Greeks, Chinese, and Koreans gave a relevant contribution to the formation of regional cultures in Brazil, and thus contributed to its current existence as a plural and racially diverse society.[1]