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Luiz Gonzaga
Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento (standard orthography 'Luís'; ; Exu, December 13, 1912 – Recife, August 2, 1989) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet and one of the most influential figures of Brazilian popular music in the twentieth century. He has been credited with having presented the rich universe of Northeastern musical genres to all of Brazil, having popularized the musical genre baião and has been called a "revolutionary" by Antônio Carlos Jobim. According to Caetano Veloso, he was the first significant cultural event with mass appeal in Brazil. Luiz Gonzaga received the Shell prize for Brazilian Popular Music in 1984 and was only the fourth artist to receive this prize after Pixinguinha, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Dorival Caymmi. The Luiz Gonzaga Dam was named in his honor. Gonzaga's son, Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento Jr, known as Gonzaguinha (1945–91), was also a noted Brazilian singer and composer. Biography The son of a farmer, Gonzaga was attract ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exu, Pernambuco
Exu is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2007, according with IBGE was 31,766 and the area is 1337 km². Exu is the birthplace of the famous Luiz Gonzaga (1912/1989) which was a very prominent Brazilian folk singer, songwriter, musician and poet. He is considered to be responsible for the promotion of northeastern music throughout the rest of the country. He is also known as the "king of baião" and "Gonzagão". Geography * State – Pernambuco * Region – Sertão Pernambucano * Boundaries – Ceará state (N); Granito (S); Bodocó (W); Moreilândia (E) * Area – 1474 km² * Elevation – 523 m * Hydrography – Brigida River * Vegetation – Caatinga and Subperenifólia forest. * Climate – transition between tropical hot and semi arid- hot and dry * Annual average temperature – 24.8 c * Distance to Recife – 607 km Economy The main economic activities in Exu are based in agribusiness, especially creation of cattle, pigs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (; born 7 August 1942) is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became 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 that took power in 1964. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since. Veloso has won nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards. On November 14, 2012, Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. Veloso was one of seven children born into the family of José Telles Velloso (commonly known as ''Seu Zeca''), a government official, and Claudionor Viana Telles Veloso (known as ''Dona Canô''). He was born in the city of Santo Amaro da Purificação, in Bahia, a state in the eastern area of Brazil, but moved to Salvador, the state capital, as a colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forró
The term forró (*) refers to a musical genre, a rhythm, a dance and the event itself where forró music is played and danced. Forró is an important part of the culture of the Northeastern Region of Brazil. It encompasses various dance types as well as a number of different musical genres. Their music genres and dances have gained widespread popularity in all regions of Brazil, especially during the Brazilian June Festivals. Forró has also become increasingly popular all over the world, with a well-established forró scene in Europe. Origin of the music A theory on the origin of forró music is that it originated on the farms and plantations in Ceará and all over northeast Brazil, where farmers and workers used to sing to the cows and together with each other as they gathered coffee and other crops like sugarcane, corn, and vegetables. They had a different song for each crop, and for each phase of the collection. As the farmers and field hands corralled cows and carri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humberto Teixeira
Humberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Teixeira (5 January 1915 – 3 October 1979) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, musician, and composer, mostly known for his partnership with musician Luiz Gonzaga. Together, they wrote one of the most important songs of their era, ''Asa Branca'', in 1947. Teixeira is recognized as a specialist in '' baião'' as well as "master of costumes and popular North-Eastern trends." Teixeira is also noted for writing the musical copyright laws of Brazil. Biography Teixera was born in Iguatu to João Euclides Teixeira and Lucíola Cavalcante Teixeira. He demonstrated musical aptitude at an early age. By six, he already learned to play the musette, flute, and mandolin. His uncle, Lafaiete Teixeira, a conductor, became his first music teacher. He completed his first composition Miss Hermengarda when he was 13 and played the flute in the orchestra that played in the silent films exhibited in Fortaleza's Cine Majestic. When he was 15, Teixeira moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asa Branca
"Asa Branca" is a song written by Luiz Gonzaga and Humberto Teixeira in 1947. The ''asa-branca'' ("white wing") of the title is the picazuro pigeon. With its departure the desolation of the parched ''sertão'' (the arid backcountry) is complete, and the protagonist of the song, unable to make a living, must leave the ''sertão'' and his lady-love Rosinha. The song closes with his promise to return. Covers *Eliane Elias included the song in her 1994 album '' Solos and Duets''. *Raul Seixas has written an English version of the song under the title "White Wings". It has been released only after his death, in the compilation ''Documento'' from 1998. *It has been covered by Zé Ramalho in his 2003 album ''Estação Brasil''. It is about the droughts that often afflict the ''sertão'' of the Brazilian Northeast. *An instrumental version appears on Ballaké Sissoko's 2013 release, ''At Peace'', arranged by the artist for kora, and featuring frequent collaborator Vincent Ségal on cello. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ary Barroso
Ary de Resende Barroso (1903–1964), better known as Ary Barroso, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV. He was one of Brazil's most successful songwriters in the first half of the 20th century. Barroso also composed many songs for Carmen Miranda during her career. Biography Born on November 7, 1903, Ary Barroso was the most influential pre-bossa nova composer in Brazil. Barroso's songs were recorded by a lengthy list of artists including Carmen Miranda and João Gilberto. His 1939 composition ''Aquarela do Brasil'', better known as ''Brazil'', was featured in the 1942 Disney film ''Saludos Amigos'', and has gone on to become one of the 20 most recorded songs of all time. His song '' Na Baixa do Sapateiro'', based on a Brazilian pop tune, was included in the Disney film '' The Three Caballeros'' and popularised as ''Baía''. Barroso's soundtrack for the movie ''Brazil'' was nominated for an Oscar in 1945. Although he failed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coco (music)
Coco is an African-influenced musical rhythm that originated in northern Brazil. "Coco" may also refer to the style of dance performed to the music, a kind of stomping. Coco is also alternatively known as "embolada" (another slang word, meaning "entangling", referring to the fast, slurred, machine-gun style of singing). Coco is often performed with a repetitive musical beat and call and response singing, reminiscent of Capoeira music. The music is commonly performed at traditional parties in the Northeast, such as weekend street parties and Carnival. The characteristic sound of coco arises from four instruments commonly used in its performance: the ganzá, surdo, pandeiro, and triangle. Performers also often wear wooden clogs, the stomping of which adds a fifth percussive element. The name "Coco" (Portuguese for "coconut") is a common Northeastern Brazilian slang for head, referring to the fact that song lyrics are often improvised. Origins The origins of coco are as obscure a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornet
The cornet (, ) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B, though there is also a soprano cornet in E and cornets in A and C. All are unrelated to the Renaissance and early Baroque cornett. History The cornet was derived from the posthorn by applying rotary valves to it in the 1820s, in France. However, by the 1830s, Parisian makers were using piston valves. Cornets first appeared as separate instrumental parts in 19th-century French compositions.''Encyclopædia Britannica'', Micropedia, Volume III, William Benton, Chicago Illinois, 1974, p. 156 The instrument could not have been developed without the improvement of piston valves by Silesian horn players Friedrich Blühmel (or Blümel) and Heinrich Stölzel, in the early 19th century. These two instrument makers almost simultaneously invented valves, though it is l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CHESF
Eletrobras (, full name: Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A.) is a major Brazilian electric utilities company. The company's headquarters are located in Rio de Janeiro. It is Latin America's biggest power utility company, tenth largest in the world, and is also the fourth largest clean energy company in the world. Eletrobras holds stakes in a number of Brazilian electric companies, so that it generates about 40% and transmits 69% of Brazil's electric supply. The company's generating capacity is about 51,000 MW, mostly in hydroelectric plants. The Brazilian federal government owned 52% stake in Eletrobras until June 2022, the rest of the shares traded on B3. The stock is part of the Ibovespa index. It is also traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market and on the Madrid Stock Exchange. History Eletrobras was established in 1962 during João Goulart's presidency. Operations Eletrobras is an electric power holding company. It is the largest generation and transmission company in Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Gonzaga Dam
The Luiz Gonzaga Dam, formerly known as the Itaparica Dam, is a rock-fill embankment dam on the São Francisco River downstream of Petrolândia in Pernambuco, Brazil. The dam was built for navigation, and hydroelectric power generation as it supports a power station. It was constructed between 1979 and 1988; the last of its generators was commissioned in 1990. The dam is owned and operated by CHESF and was renamed in honor of Luiz Gonzaga, known as the "king of Baião" and "Gonzagão" Dam The Luiz Gonzaga Dam is a long and high rock and earth-fill embankment dam. The contains a concrete section that supports the power plants and spillway of which contains nine floodgates. The maximum level of the reservoir is above sea level while the dam reaches a maximum height of . Power plant The dam supports a long and wide hydroelectric power station. The station contains six SíncronoVertical Francis turbines within generators that have an installed capacity of each, totaling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorival Caymmi
Dorival Caymmi (; April 30, 1914 – August 16, 2008) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years, beginning in 1933. He contributed to the birth of Brazil's bossa nova movement, and several of his samba pieces, such as "''Samba da Minha Terra''", "''Doralice''" and "''Saudade da Bahia''", have become staples of ''música popular brasileira.'' Equally notable are his ballads celebrating the fishermen and women of Bahia, including "''Promessa de Pescador''", "''O Que É Que a Baiana Tem?''", and "''Milagre''". Caymmi composed about 100 songs in his lifetime, and many of his works are now considered to be Brazilian classics. Both Brazilian and non-Brazilian musicians have covered his songs. Ben Ratliff of ''The New York Times'' wrote that Caymmi was "perhaps second only to Antônio Carlos Jobim in 'establishing a songbook of he 20thcentury's Brazilian identity.'" Throughout his career, his music about the people and culture of Bahia influe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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