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Martinho Lutero Galati
Martinho Lutero Galati de Oliveira (29 September 1953 – 25 March 2020) was a Brazilian conductor born in Alpercata, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. He created and directed the Luther King Choir (1970), the Tchova Xita Duma Cultural Association (1982) and the Cantosospeso Association (1987).Luther was born in the district of Alpercata, which belonged to Governador Valadares at the time and only became independent in the following decade. Lutero wrote the book ''Do gesture à gestão: um diálogo sobre maestros e liderança''. He was director of the Choir of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo from 2013 to 2016, president of the Brazilian Association of Choral Conductors in 2018 and professor at the Free University of Languages and Communication and at the Institute of Musicology of Milan. He died in São Paulo in March 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Biography Luther arrived in São Paulo in 1960, where he completed his basic education and the music training he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpercata
Alpercata is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population was 7,436 people living in a total area of 167 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Vale do Rio Doce and to the micro-region of Governador Valadares. It became a municipality in 1962.IBGE Location The city center of Alpercata is located at an elevation of 192 meters on the important federal highway BR-116 just south of Governador Valadares. Neighboring municipalities are: (W and N), (NE), |
Associação Paulista De Críticos De Arte
The Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (São Paulo Association of Art Critics) or APCA (established 1956) is an organization based in São Paulo, Brazil which honors the best in the Brazilian fields of stage acting (since 1956), music, literature, film, television, plastic arts (since 1972/1973), and radio (since 1980). See also * APCA Award for Best Film References External links *APCAat the Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... Brazilian awards Brazilian literary awards Awards established in 1956 Arts organisations based in Brazil 1956 establishments in Brazil {{organization-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Vilela
Ivan Vilela (born August 28, 1962 in Itajubá, Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian composer, arranger, researcher, teacher and ''viola caipira'' player. Ivan Vilela is currently a professor at the ECA - School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo. He is the director of the Orquestra Filarmônica de Violas, a Brazilian orchestra composed by Brazilian violas. Ivan Vilela is one of the main ten-string guitarists (viola) nowadays. With a special style and very developed technique, he has more than 15 albums recorded, solo or with different groups, and was nominated for and awarded several prestigious prizes in Brazil. Biography Ivan Vilela is the youngest of a family of eleven children. When he was 11 years old, Vilela received a guitar from his father. His first guitar teacher was Amaury Vieira, in 1973. He began his artistic career at age 18 playing with the "Pedra" Group and then the "Água doce" Group, who did research on the music roots from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zizi Possi
Maria Izildinha "Zizi" Possi (, born March 28, 1956) is a Brazilian singer from São Paulo, the daughter of Italian immigrants. She sings in Portuguese, English, and Italian languages. In 2007, he sang at the opening of the Military World Games, alongside Toquinho, Jorge Aragão, Alcione and the Paralamas do Sucesso band. Possi is openly bisexual. She is the mother of another famous Brazilian singer, Luiza Possi. Discography All albums are in Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ... unless noted otherwise. *1978 – ''Flor do Mal'' *1979 – ''Pedaço de Mim'' *1980 – ''Zizi Possi'' *1981 – ''Um Minuto Além'' *1982 – ''Asa Morena'' - Gold (100,000) *1983 – ''Pra Sempre e Mais um Dia'' *1984 – ''Dê um Rolê'' *1986 – ''Zizi'' - Gold (100,000) *19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristovão Bastos
Cristovão da Silva Bastos Filho (born December 3, 1946) is a Brazilian songwriter, pianist and arranger. He has performed and composed for artists including Maria Bethânia, Milton Nascimento, Gal Costa, Ivan Lins, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick and Paulinho da Viola. Bastos has been nominated for a Latin Grammy and has won 6 Prêmio da Música Brasileira. Work Bastos has been active as a songwriter, arranger and pianist since the 1970s. In 1992, he released "Bons Encontros", his first album as a primary artist along with Marco Pereira. In 1996, he released his first solo album, "Avenida Brasil". Bastos was the pianist and arranger for Dionne Warwick's 1994 album "Aquarela do Brasil", a collection of Brazilian jazz and pop standards. Barbra Streisand's 1999 song "Let's Start Right Now" is set to the music of "Raios de Luz", written by Bastos and Abel Silva. In 2006, Bastos composed the soundtrack for the film “ Zuzu Angel”, directed by Sérgio Rezende. Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérgio Ricardo (director)
João Lutfi (18 June 1932 – 23 July 2020), known professionally as Sérgio Ricardo, was a Brazilian film director and composer. He directed five films between 1964 and 1974. In 1967 he gained attention when taking part in the third Festival de Música Popular Brasileira, in which he performed a rearranged version of "Beto bom de bola". The audience disliked the fact that he would not perform the original version and booed him during the whole performance. At a certain moment, he gave up playing, shouted "You won!" at the audience, broke his acoustic guitar and threw it at the crowd. He was then immediately disqualified. He was infected with COVID-19, and became COVID-negative in May 2020. However, he died without being discharged on 23 July 2020, a month after his 88th birthday, of heart failure. Selected filmography * ''Boy of White Trousers'' (short, director, 1962) * ''This World is Mine'' (director, 1964) * '' Black God, White Devil'' (composer, 1964) * ''Lost Love Julia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inezita Barroso
Ignez Magdalena Aranha de Lima Barroso ( ''née'' Aranha de Lima; March 4, 1925 – March 8, 2015) was a Brazilian sertanejo singer, guitarist, actress, TV presenter, librarian, folklorist and teacher. Biography Inês Madalena Aranha de Lima was born on March 4, 1925, in the Barra Funda neighborhood in the city of São Paulo. She started singing at the age of seven. At nine, she already admired the modernist poet Mário de Andrade, who lived next door to her house on Rua Lopes Chaves in Barra Funda, São Paulo, whom she hoped to spend every day while playing rollerblading. At age 11, she began to study piano. Since she was a child, she knew Raul Torres who, having been his father's colleague on the Sorocabana Railroad, often went to his house, where they sang when she had her birthday. Despite having been raised in the capital, Inezita had a real passion for country music. Her contact with nature was on weekends and when she spent her holidays at the house of relatives who li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naná Vasconcelos
Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Björk, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Gato Barbieri, and Milton Nascimento. Biography Vasconcelos was born in Recife, Brazil. Beginning from 1967 he joined many artists' works as a percussionist. Among his many collaborations, he contributed to four Jon Hassell albums from 1976 to 1980 (including '' Possible Musics'' by Brian Eno and Hassell), and later to several Pat Metheny Group works and Jan Garbarek concerts from early 1980s to early 1990s. In 1984 he appeared on the Pierre Favre album ''Singing Drums'' along with Paul Motian. He also appears on Arild Andersen's album ''If You Look Far Enough'' with Ralph Towner. He formed a group named Codona with Don Cherry and Collin Walcott, which released three albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (; born 26 June 1942), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation and political activism. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Gil's musical style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including rock, Brazilian genres including samba, African music, and reggae. Gil started to play music as a child and was a teenager when he joined his first band. He began his career as a bossa nova musician and grew to write songs that reflected a focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música popular brasileira and tropicália movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciana Serra
Luciana Serra (born 4 November 1946, in Genoa) is an Italian coloratura soprano. Career Serra made her international debut in 1966 as Eleonora in Cimarosa's ' at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest, but did not achieve general acclaim until the late 1970s, when she took on coloratura roles in Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' and Bellini's ''La sonnambula''. In 1988, Serra debuted at the Vienna State Opera singing the Queen of the Night in a new production of ''Die Zauberflöte'' conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and staged by Otto Schenk. Her fame reached a peak during the break of the 1980s and 1990s, when she performed the Queen of the Night in ''Die Zauberflöte'' at the Royal Opera House in London and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She regularly teaches at Villa Medici in Rome and at the Accademia La Scala in Milan. Her discography includes ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', ''Il viaggio a Reims'', ''Rigoletto'', ''Don Pasquale'' and ''Die Zauberflöte ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lella Cuberli
Lella Cuberli (September 29, 1945) is an American soprano, particularly associated with the Belcanto repertory. Born Lela Alice Terrell in Austin, Texas, she studied in Dallas and later in Milan. She made her professional debut in Siena, in 1973, and for some years pursued her career mainly in Italy, making her mark in Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini operas. She sang at Martina Franca from 1976 to 1982, as Amenaide, Adalgisa, and in Paisiello operas. She appeared at La Scala from 1978 to 1985, as Aminta, Ginevra, Rodelinda, Giunia, Contessa di Folleville . Other roles at the major opera houses of Italy have included; Donna Anna, Fiordiligi, Rossini's Elisabetta and Desdemona, etc. She also appeared at the Paris Opéra, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. Returning to the United States, she made her debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1989, as Amenaide, and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1990, as Semiramide. In 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mário De Andrade Choir Of São Paulo
Mario is the Italian, French, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Greek, and English form of the Latin Roman name Marius. In Croatia, the name Mario was among the most common masculine given names in the decades between 1970 and 1999, and was the most common name in the 1970s. The Portuguese version of the name is spelled Mário (to highlight the pronunciation of the "a"). It is also associated with the highly popular and beloved Nintendo franchise Super Mario and its eponymous character Mario. Notable people and characters named Mario include: Given name Artists and musicians * Mario (American singer) (born 1986), Mario Dewar Barrett, an American R&B singer * Mario Adorf (born 1930), German actor * Mario Amaya (1933–1986), American art critic * Mario Cantone (born 1959), American comedian and actor *Mario Chicot, also simply Mario, zouk singer from Guadeloupe * Mario Domm (born 1977), Mexican singer and member of Camila * Mario Frangoulis (born 1967), Greek tenor * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
