Arrigo Barnabé (born September 14, 1951) is a Brazilian

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and

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. His best-known record is perhaps the critically acclaimed ''Clara Crocodilo''. "He wrote the highly successful song "Clara Crocodilo" (with Mário Lúcio Cortes)..." "The album 'Clara Crocodilo''was awarded...with the APCA (São Paulo's Art Critics' Association) prize."Façanhas
, ''AllMusic.com''. "Barnabé came out with two stunning releases, ''Clara Crocodilo'' (1980) and ''Tubarões Voadores'' (1984)..." Barnabé was born in

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, Paraná,

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. His music is best known for having a heavily experimental approach, in which the author uses dodecaphonism and atonalism as main principles of composition. He also has written

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s for several Brazilian movies. He hosts a radio show called ''Supertônicas'' at Rádio Cultura in

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. Arrigo Barnabé is cited in the songs "Língua" by

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and "Eu Quero Saber Quem Matou" by

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. He has a younger brother, Paulo Barnabé, also a musician and member of the

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band Patife Band.

Discography

*1980 - ''Clara Crocodilo'' *1984 - ''Tubarões Voadores'' *1986 - ''Cidade Oculta'' (movie soundtrack) *1987 - ''Suspeito'' *1992 - ''Façanhas'' *1997 - ''Ed Mort'' (movie soundtrack) *1998 - ''Gigante Negão'' *1999 - ''A Saga de Clara Crocodilo'' *2004 - ''Coletânea 25 Anos de Clara Crocodilo'' (Includes: ''Clara Crocodilo'', ''Tubarões Voadores'', ''Gigante Negão'', ''A Saga de Clara Crocodilo'' and ''Uma Suíte a Quatro Mãos'') *2004 - ''Missa in Memorian Arthur Bispo do Rosário'' *2007 - ''Missa in Memorian Itamar Assumpção''

Filmography

*1981 - '' O Olho Mágico do Amor'' *1986 - ''Cidade Oculta'' *1986 - ''Nem Tudo É Verdade''— playing the role of

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*1987 - '' Anjos da Noite'' *2002 - '' Desmundo'' *2012 - ''Luz nas Trevas''

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1951 births Living people 20th-century Brazilian male singers 20th-century Brazilian singers Brazilian experimental musicians People from Londrina Twelve-tone and serial composers Vanguarda Paulistana Brazilian male classical composers 21st-century Brazilian male singers 21st-century Brazilian singers Male actors from Paraná (state) {{Brazil-musician-stub

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