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Ugo Marotta
Ugo Marotta (September 23, 1942 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian musician, conductor, arranger, composer, keyboards and vibraphonist. He took part at the Brazilian music movements Bossa Nova and Musicanossa. Biography Born in Rio de Janeiro, he participated at the evening musical get-togethers at Nara Leão's place, the cradle of the musical style Bossa Nova. Other important names like Tom Jobim, Roberto Menescal, Carlos Lyra, Sérgio Mendes and Ronaldo Bôscoli were also active participants. In 1963, together with Eumir Deodato, Sérgio Barrozo, João Palma and Roberto Menescal, he recorded his first LP, ''A Bossa Nova de Roberto Menescal e Seu Conjunto'', playing vibraphone. Titles like "Desafinado", "Batida diferente", "Você e eu" and "Só danço samba" included on this LP, released by the label "Elenco", became some of the Bossa Nova hits. The following year, the band produced the new album: ''A Nova Bossa Nova de Roberto Menescal e Seu Conjunto'', which also included h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro (state)
Rio de Janeiro () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of the Brazilian GDP. The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast (assigned by IBGE). Rio de Janeiro shares borders with all the other states in the same Southeast macroregion: Minas Gerais ( N and NW), Espírito Santo ( NE) and São Paulo ( SW). It is bounded on the east and south by the South Atlantic Ocean. Rio de Janeiro has an area of . Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro, which was the capital of the Portuguese Colony of Brazil from 1763 to 1815, of the following United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1815 to 1822, and of later independent Brazil as a kingdom and republic from 1822 to 1960. The state's 22 largest cities are Rio de Janeiro, São G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Valle
Marcos may refer to: People with the given name ''Marcos'' *Marcos (given name) Sports ;Surnamed * Dayton Marcos, Negro league baseball team from Dayton, Ohio (early twentieth-century) * Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer * Nélson Marcos, Portuguese footballer * Randa Markos, Iraqi-Canadian female mixed martial artist ;Nicknamed * Marcos Joaquim dos Santos (born 1975), Brazilian footballer known as ''Marcos'' * Marcos de Paula (born 1983), Brazilian footballer known as ''Marcos'' playing for ''A.C. ChievoVerona'' * Marcos Alonso Peña (born 1959), Spanish footballer known as ''Marcos'' ;Named * Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver currently competing in ''NASCAR'' * Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player * Marcos Hernández (swimmer), Cuban freestyle swimmer * Marcos Pizzelli, Brazilian-Armenian footballer * Marcos (footballer, born 1973), Brazilian football goalkeeper * Marcos García Barreno, Spanish footballer * Marcos Mazzaron, Brazilian cyclist * Marcos Carneiro de Mendo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sivan Castelo Neto
''Sivan'' (Hebrew: סִיוָן, Standard ''Sīvan'', Tiberian ''Sīwān''; from Akkadian ''simānu'', meaning "Season; time") is the ninth month of the civil year and the third month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a month of 30 days. ''Sivan'' usually falls in May–June on the Gregorian calendar. Along with all other current, post-biblical Jewish month names, Sivan was adopted during the Babylonian captivity. In the Babylonian calendar it was named Araḫ Simanu. Holidays in Sivan * 6–7 Sivan – Shavuot Sivan in Jewish history * 1 Sivan (1096) – Worms Jews massacred as part of the Rhineland massacres by the First Crusade during morning prayers after taking refuge in a local castle. (see " Iyar in Jewish History" for Iyar 8.) * 4 Sivan ( BCE) – Birth of David. * 6 Sivan (c. ?) - Birth of the Seventh Antediluvian Patriarch/Hero Enoch. * 6 Sivan (c. 1313 BCE) – The Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai and thus observed as the holiday of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tito Madi
Chauki Maddi (18 July 1929 – 26 September 2018), better known by his stage name as Tito Madi, was a Brazilian singer and composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi .... He wrote the songs "Cansei de Ilusões", "Sonho e Saudade" and "Carinho e Amor". References 1929 births 2018 deaths Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city) 20th-century Brazilian male singers 20th-century Brazilian singers Brazilian male composers {{Brazil-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamba Trio
Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * Tanba Province, a former province in Japan * Tamba, Hyōgo, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan * Tamba, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan * Tamba, Estonia, Varbla Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia * Tamba Kheri, Rajasthan, India Other * ''Tamba'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Erebidae * ''Tamba'' (train), a limited express train service operated by West Japan Railway Company * Tamba ware, a type of Japanese pottery * Tamba, a puppet on ''Tikkabilla ''Tikkabilla'' is a UK children's television programme, shown on CBeebies. The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner. The title "Tikkabilla" comes from the Hindi word meaning " Hopscotch", a popular children's g ...'', a UK children's TV show * A traditional s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quarteto Em Cy
Quarteto em Cy (a play on words of the Portuguese for ''Quartet in B'' by poet and lyricist Vinicius de Moraes) is a Brazilian girl group originally composed of four sisters hailing from Ibirataia, a town located in the Brazilian state of Bahia: Cybele, Cylene, Cynara and Cyva – their real first names. History They started performing in 1959, appearing on local television in that year. Cyva, the leader of the group, then moved to Rio de Janeiro, and persuaded her three sisters to join her there. They then started to make regular appearances in the ''boates'' (small nightclubs) of Rio, particularly ''Bottle's bar'' and the legendary ''Zum-Zum'', where they caught the attention of Vinicius de Moraes and other prominent figures of the bossa nova scene. Their first album was released in 1964, and was to be followed by regular releases up to the late '90s, at the frequency of one a year, and sometimes more. Connoisseurs of Música popular brasileira, MPB and tropicalia have a pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aracy De Almeida
Aracy de Almeida (August 19, 1914 – June 20, 1988) was a Brazilian singer, known as a famous artist of the Golden Age of Brazilian radio.AllMusic/ref> Her 1950 album ''Noel Rosa'' was voted by Rolling Stone one of the greatest Brazilian albums of all time. Early life Aracy Teles de Almeida was born on August 19, 1914. She was raised in Encantado, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, in a large Protestant family. Her father, Baltazar Teles de Almeida, was a Central do Brasil train conductor, and her mother, Mrs. Hermogênea, was a housewife. She had only male siblings. She studied in a school in the neighborhood of Engenho de Dentro, where she was a classmate of the radio broadcaster , later moving to Colégio Nacional, in Méier. Aracy would sing religious hymns at her local Baptist Church and, in secrecy from her parents, would sing songs of Candomblé Candomblé () is an African diasporic religion that developed in Brazil during the 19th century. It arose through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanda Sá
Wanda Maria Ferreira de Sá (born July 1, 1944) (also Wanda de Sah) is a Brazilian bossa nova singer and guitarist, active from 1964 to the present day. Her first guitar teacher, when she was 13, was Roberto Menescal. Later, she worked with Sérgio Mendes in his group Brasil '65' and also with Marcos Valle and Kátya Chamma. Francisco Tenório Júnior and Ugo Marotta played on her debut album ''Vagamente'' in 1965. She was married to songwriter Edu Lobo from 1969 until 1982. In 2011, she made her first appearance in the United States since 1999, playing with Marcos Valle at Birdland (jazz club), Birdland in New York City. ''The Wall Street Journal'' described her as "legendary". National Public Radio called her "one of Brazil's best-kept musical secrets". Selected discography * ''Vagamente (1964)'' * ''Softly! (1965)'' * ''Amazon River (2000)'' * ''Wanda Sá com João Donato (2004)'' * ''Domingo Azul Do Mar (2005)'' References External links * Brazilian women gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascoal Meirelles
Pascoal may refer to: People * José Pascoal Jr. (born 1988), Brazilian professional racing cyclist. *Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli (1910–1975), Brazilian politician *Pascoal Mocumbi (born 1941), the Prime Minister of Mozambique from 1994 until 2004 *Hermeto Pascoal (born 1936), Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Places *Monte Pascoal, mount in the state of Bahia, Brazil See also *Pascual (other) *Pascal (other) *Pasqual (other) *Pasquale (other) Pasquale is a masculine Italian given name and a surname mainly found in southern Italy. It is a cognate of the French name Pascal, the Spanish Pascual, the Portuguese Pascoal and the Catalan Pasqual. Pasquale derives from the Latin ''paschal ... {{surname, Pascoal Portuguese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cláudia Telles
Cláudia is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Mato Grosso This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso (MT), located in the Central-West Region of Brazil. Mato Grosso is divided into 141 municipalities, which are grouped into 22 microregions, which are grouped into 5 mesoregions. ... References Municipalities in Mato Grosso {{MatoGrosso-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Sergio Mallandro
''As aventuras de Sérgio Mallandro'' (''The Adventures of Sergio Mallandro'') is a Brazilian movie directed by Erasto Filho, released in 1985. Sinopse The extraterrestrial dwarf Superpoderoso (''super powerful'') comes to Earth to find a human to enfranchise him with the power of "doing good". Mallandro is the chosen one, but he will need to prove himself worth by accomplishing a mission: to find a little monkey lost by a girl called Tininha. If Mallandro fail, the power of "doing good" will be given to the movie's super villain, Dom Pedro de Lara y Lara, played by Pedro de Lara. Cast *Sérgio Mallandro *Pedro de Lara .... Dom Pedro * Palhaço Rolinha .... Superpoderoso *Cosme dos Santos .... Zé Cocada *Alexandre Frota * Carla Prestes .... Tininha *Mara Maravilha * Fernando Reski * Paulo Cintura *Sylvinho Sylvio Mendes Campos Júnior (born 12 April 1974), commonly known as Sylvinho (sometimes alternatively spelled Silvinho), is a Brazilian football manager and former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
