Eduardo "Ed" Motta (; born August 17, 1971) is a Brazilian MPB, rock,

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and

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musician. He is the nephew of late singer-songwriter

Tim Maia Tim Maia (, born Sebastião Rodrigues Maia; September 28, 1942 – March 15, 1998) was a Brazilian musician, songwriter, and businessman known for his iconoclastic, ironic, outspoken, and humorous musical style. Maia contributed to Brazilian mus ...

Career

Son of Luzia Motta, sister of

and Antonio Motta, from an early age listened to

disco Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric p ...

and

, later leaning to rock, of which he became profoundly knowledgeable at the time. His musical career started as vocalist of the hard rock band Kabbalah, After hearing

Jeff Beck Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He rose to prominence with the Yardbirds and after fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to a mainly instrumental style, with a fo ...

's album " Blow by Blow", he realized that the British guitarist had soul and funk influences. Still in his teens, he abandoned his studies to dedicate to music, now fascinated by

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. He was a DJ and produced the

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"Curto Circuito", until he met guitarist Luiz Fernando Comprido, with whom he later formed the "Expresso Realengo", later renamed as "Conexão Japeri", and recorded the first album in 1988. In 1990 Motta departed to begin his solo career, recording his debut ''Um Contrato Com Deus'', where he played almost all the instruments by himself. Since then he has released several solo albums. In 1997 he supplied the soundtrack to the film, ''Pequeno Dicionário Amoroso'' (The Book of Love). In 1994 lived in

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for a year. There he recorded an album with American musicians that has not been released yet. He discovered the universes of

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, which eventually reflected on his musical conception. Once opposed to

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, he discovered that foreign artists had recorded Brazilian songs, such as recordings of

Francis Hime Francis Hime (Rio de Janeiro, August 31, 1939) is a Brazilian composer, arranger, pianist and singer. He is the composer of the jazz standard ''Minha / All Mine'', recorded, among others, by Bill Evans, Tony Bennett and Eliane Elias Eliane Eli ...

's Minha by jazz artist

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, and discovered a partnership between Brazilian

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and American

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, famous for composing the song

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, recorded by

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. In 1999, he translated

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's songs for the

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film ''

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'' into

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. His album ''Aystelum'' was nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards of 2006 in the Latin jazz category. Motta has worked with

Roy Ayers Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at ...

4 Hero 4hero are an electronic music group from Dollis Hill, London, comprising producers Mark "Marc Mac" Clair & Denis "Dego" McFarlane. While the band is often cited as ''4 Hero'' or ''4-Hero'', the name is stylised as ''4hero'' on their albums and ...

Seu Jorge Jorge Mário da Silva, more commonly known by his stage name Seu Jorge (Seu, an abbreviation of "Senhor"; born June 8, 1970; ), is a Brazilian musical artist, songwriter, and actor. He is considered by many a renewer of Brazilian pop samba. Seu ...

Eliane Elias Eliane Elias
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Incognito,

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and

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amongst others. His work covers a variety of genres from jazz to popular Brazilian music, rock to Hollywood film soundtracks,

, AOR,

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and

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Selected discography

Others

* ''Conexao Japeri'' (WEA) 1988 * ''Ao Vivo'' (live) (WEA) 1993 * ''Ao Vivo'' (live) (Trama) 2006

References

External links

* – official site
Ed Motta
at All Brazilian Music * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Motta, Ed 1971 births Living people Música Popular Brasileira pianists Brazilian jazz pianists Brazilian rock musicians Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian male musicians Male jazz musicians Brazilian soul singers Brazilian funk singers 20th-century pianists 21st-century pianists Male pianists 20th-century Brazilian male singers 20th-century Brazilian singers 21st-century Brazilian male singers 21st-century Brazilian singers