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

musician A musician is a person who composes, conducts, or performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general term used to designate one who follows music as a profession. Musicians include songwriters who wri ...

and

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

. 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 Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. His music is best known for having a heavily experimental approach, in which the author uses dodecaphonism and

atonalism Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. ''Atonality'', in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th-century to the present day, where a hierarchy of harmonies focusing on a ...

as main principles of composition. He also has written

soundtrack A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack o ...

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

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

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

Caetano Veloso Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (; born 7 August 1942) is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encomp ...

and "Eu Quero Saber Quem Matou" by

Rogério Skylab Rogério Tolomei Teixeira (born September 2, 1956), better known by his stage name Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist, poet, essayist, record producer, actor and former television presenter. His uni ...

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

experimental An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when ...

band

Patife Band Patife Band ("patife" is a word in Portuguese meaning "stooge" or "knucklehead") is a Brazilian post-punk band formed in São Paulo in 1983 by Paulo Barnabé, initially under the name Paulo Patife Band. They are considered to be one of the major ...

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 Tânia Maria Rego Alves (born September 12, 1953 in Bonito de Santa Fé) is ...

'' *1986 - ''Cidade Oculta'' *1986 - ''Nem Tudo É Verdade''— playing the role of

Orson Welles George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential f ...

*1987 - ''

Anjos da Noite ''Night Angels'' (Brazilian title: ''Anjos da Noite'') is a 1987 Brazilian drama movie, directed by Wilson Barros. Cast * Zezé Motta as Malu * Antônio Fagundes as Jorge Tadeu * Marco Nanini as Guto * Chiquinho Brandão as Lola / Mauro * Ai ...

'' *2002 - ''

Desmundo ''Desmundo'' is a 2002 Brazilian drama film by Alain Fresnot, based on the novel of the same name by Ana Miranda. The film is set in 1570, a period when orphan Portuguese girls were sent to marry the settlers' sons. This was done to prevent the P ...

'' *2012 - ''Luz nas Trevas''

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 {{Brazil-musician-stub

Discography

Filmography

See also

References