Arrigo Barnabé (born September 14, 1951) is a Brazilian
musician
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and
actor
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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
Londrina
Londrina (, literally "Little London") is a city located in the north of the state of Paraná, South Region, Brazil, and is away from the state capital, Curitiba. It is the second largest city in the state and fourth largest in the southern regi ...
,
Paraná,
Brazil
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. His music is best known for having a heavily experimental approach, in which the author uses
dodecaphonism and
atonalism
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as main principles of composition. He also has written
soundtrack
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s for several
Brazilian movies.
He hosts a radio show called ''Supertônicas'' at
Rádio Cultura in
São Paulo
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.
Arrigo Barnabé is cited in the songs "Língua" by
Caetano Veloso
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and "Eu Quero Saber Quem Matou" by
Rogério Skylab
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.
He has a younger brother, Paulo Barnabé, also a musician and member of the
experimental
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band
Patife Band
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.
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
''O Olho Mágico do Amor'' is a 1982 Brazilian film directed by José Antônio Garcia and Ícaro Martins.
Cast
* Carla Camurati ... Vera / secretary
*Tânia Alves
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''
*1986 - ''Cidade Oculta''
*1986 - ''Nem Tudo É Verdade''— playing the role of
Orson Welles
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*1987 - ''
Anjos da Noite
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Cast
* Zezé Motta as Malu
* Antônio Fagundes as Jorge Tadeu
* Marco Nanini as Guto
* Chiquinho Brandão as Lola / Mauro
* Ai ...
''
*2002 - ''
Desmundo
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''
*2012 - ''Luz nas Trevas''
See also
*
Vânia Bastos
Vânia Bastos (born May 13, 1956) is a Brazilian singer, who began her professional life with the Vanguarda Paulista avant-garde movement in the early 1980s.
Biography
Bastos moved to São Paulo in 1975, to study sociology and singing. In 1980, ...
*
Itamar Assumpção
Itamar Assumpção (September 13, 1949 – June 12, 2003) was a Brazilian songwriter and composer who was born in Tietê, a city in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Assumpção built a strong reputation in the Brazilian independent and alterna ...
*
Vanguarda Paulista
References
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
Male classical composers
21st-century Brazilian male singers
21st-century Brazilian singers
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