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, Guinga,

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and Cláudio Roditi.

Career

He began his career in

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with singer

and later worked as an arranger and performer on several of her several albums. He performed with

at concerts in the United States (

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, San Francisco Jazz Festival,

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) and in Japan. With Guinga he performed at the Festival of the Guitar (

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), with the

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( Disney Hall) with

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(Washington D.C.), Spivey Hall (Georgia), HotHouse jazz club (Chicago), with Rosa Passos at the jazz festival in Berne, Switzerland, and with cellist Jaques Morelenbaum in Europe. He has also performed with

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, and

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. He has recorded with

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, Chano Dominguez,

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, and Wagner Tiso. In ''Guitar Player'' magazine of Brazil, he was voted one of the ten most popular guitarists in Brazil.

Discography

As leader

* 2009 ''Bossa da Minha Terra'' (Groovin' High)

As sideman

With Joyce * 1999 ''Hard Bossa'' * 2007 ''Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas'' with Tutty Moreno * 2009 ''Slow Music'' With

* 1996 ''Pano Pra Manga'' * 1993 ''Festa'' * 2003 ''Entre Amigos'' with Ron Carter (Chesky) * 2008 ''Romance'' With others * 1996 ''Claudio, Rio & Friends'',

* 1997 ''Here in My Heart'',

(Private Music) * 1999 ''Suite Leopoldina'', Guinga * 2001 ''Macale Canta Moreira'',

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* 2001 ''

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'',

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(Winter & Winter) * 2004 ''A Foreign Sound'',

* 2004 ''O Doutor Do Baiao'',

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* 2006 ''Révérence'',

* 2008 ''Celebrating Our Time to Remember'', Thiago de Mello * 2012 '' Kenny Barron & the Brazilian Knights'',

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(Sunnyside) * 2022 '' Quietude'',

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(Candid) * 2024 '' Milton + esperanza'', Milton Nascimento and

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, (Concord)

References

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