Ugo Marotta (September 23, 1942 in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

) is a Brazilian musician, conductor, arranger, composer, keyboards and

vibraphonist The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist,' ...

. 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 Nara Lofego Leão (; January 19, 1942 – June 7, 1989) was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPB (popular Brazilian music) singer and occasional actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer of '' Bye Bye Brasil''. Life Leão was bor ...

's place, the cradle of the musical style Bossa Nova. Other important names like

Tom Jobim Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

Roberto Menescal Roberto Menescal (born October 25, 1937) is a Brazilian composer, record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and pioneer of bossa nova. In many of his songs there are references to the sea, including his best-known composition "O Barquinho" ("Little Bo ...

Carlos Lyra Carlos Eduardo Lyra Barbosa (born 11 May 1933) is a Brazilian singer and composer of numerous bossa nova and Música popular brasileira classics. He and Antonio Carlos Jobim, were the first two music composers, together with lyricists Vinicius ...

Sérgio Mendes Sérgio Santos Mendes (; born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician. His career took off with worldwide hits by his group Brasil '66. He has over 55 releases and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk. He was nominated for ...

and

Ronaldo Bôscoli Ronaldo Fernando Esquerdo Bôscoli, usually known as Ronaldo Bôscoli, or just Bôscoli (October 28, 1928 in Rio de Janeiro – November 18, 1994) was a Brazilian composer, songwriter, record producer and journalist. He was very active and ...

were also active participants. In 1963, together with

Eumir Deodato Eumir Deodato de Almeida (; born 22 June 1942) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, ...

, Sérgio Barrozo, João Palma and

, he recorded his first LP, ''A Bossa Nova de Roberto Menescal e Seu Conjunto'', playing

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...

. 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 hits like "Samba de verão", "Só tinha de ser com você" and "Bolinha de papel". Apart from playing the vibraphone, Marotta also arranged and composed some of the songs for this second LP. During the Bossa Nova movement, he worked and recorded with several well-known Brazilian artists and bands (

Maysa Maysa Figueira Monjardim (June 6, 1936 – January 22, 1977), better known as Maysa Matarazzo, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, performer and actress. She is also associated with Bossa nova music but is widely known as a torch song (''fossa' ...

Sylvia Telles Silvia D'Atri Telles (; August 27, 1934 – December 17, 1966) was a Brazilian jazz samba and bossa nova singer of the 1950s and 1960s. Life Daughter of Paulo Telles and Maria Amelia D'Atri, Sylvia was born in 1934 and she had the ambition to be ...

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, Portug ...

), playing and arranging songs that became some of the Bossa Nova icons. In 1968, he produced and directed the " Música Nossa" movement, along with

Mário Telles 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 ...

Paulo Sérgio Valle Paulo Sérgio Kostenbader Valle (born August 6, 1940) is a Brazilian composer and lyricist. Career Valle started his career as part of the bossa nova trend when, with his brother Marcos Valle, he composed " Samba de Verão", which became one ...

and Tibério Gaspar. Marotta, whose first vibraphone was constructed by himself, came back to the musical scene on a new record with the harmonic player

Maurício Einhorn Maurício is the Portuguese variant of Mauricio (given name). The diminutive is Maurinho. Sportspeople with the name include: *Maurício José da Silveira Júnior, Brazilian footballer in Greece * Maurício Copertino, Brazilian footballer *Mauríc ...

. The album, a compilation of Oscar-winning songs, was released in 1975, by the extinct Philips label. Ugo Marotta also worked as arranger and composer of advertisements and movie soundtracks. His filmography includes '' As Aventuras de Sergio Mallandro'', ''Os Fantasmas Trapalhões e Urubus e Papagaios''. Nowadays he works as a music arranger and producer, being his latest records: ''Tributo a Tom Jobim'', with Cláudia Telles, ''Tributo a Art Blakey'' and ''Quarenta'', with Pascoal Meirelles

Discography

e Seu Conjunto – ''A Bossa Nova de Roberto Menescal e Seu Conjunto'' (Elenco/Universal Music) – Vibraphone, arranger and composer *

e Seu Conjunto – ''A Nova Bossa Nova de Roberto Menescal e Seu Conjunto'' (1964, Elenco/Polygram) – Vibraphone, arranger and composer *

e Seu Conjunto – ''Bossa Nova'' (1962 ou 1964, Imperial) – Vibraphone *

– ''Maysa'' (1964, Elenco/Universal Music) – Vibraphone *

– ''Samba Demais'' (1964, Odeon/EMI) – Vibraphone * Pacífico Mascarenhas – ''Sambacana'' (1964, Odeon) – Arranger *

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 Sérgi ...

– ''Wanda Vagamente'' (1965, RGE/Dubas Música) – Vibraphone *''Samba Session'' (1965) *

– ''The Music of Mr. Jobim By Sylvia Telles'' (1965) *

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 Bra ...

– ''Samba é Aracy de Almeida'' (1966, Elenco/Universal Music) – Arranger, organ and piano *

– ''It Might As Well Be Spring'' (1966, Elenco/Dubas Música) – Vibraphone *

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 Bah ...

– ''Quarteto em Cy'' (1966, Elenco/Universal Music) – Arranger and composer *

and

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 * ...

– ''Som definitivo'' (1966, Forma/Bomba Records) – Arranger *

e Seu Conjunto – ''Surf Board'' (1967, Elenco/Universal Music) – Vibraphone, arranger *''Quarteto 004 – Retrato em Branco e Preto'' (1968) *

– ''Em Cy maior'' (1968) – Arranger * Tito Madi – ''Compacto Simples'' (1969) *Ugo Marotta & Os Folks – ''Baião Rides Again'' (1973) * Sivan Castelo Neto – ''Sivan Castelo Neto – 60 anos de música'' (1966, Elenco/Universal Music) – Producer, arranger and keyboards *Vários – ''The Oscar Winners'' (1975, Philips) – Produtor e arranger *

Jorge Ben Jorge Duílio Lima Menezes (born March 22, 1939) is a Brazilian popular musician, performing under the stage name Jorge Ben Jor since the 1980s, though commonly known by his former stage name Jorge Ben (). His characteristic style fuses samba ...

– ''SOLTA O PAVÃO'' (1975, Philips) – Arranger *Vários – ''A Era de Ouro da Música Italiana – Il Cantanti di Bruno Marotta'' (1977, Phonogram/Fontana) – Producer and arranger * Alcyr Pires Vermelho – ''Alcyr Pires Vermelho – 50 Anos de Música'' (1985) *Various artists – ''A Trip to Brazil – 40 Years of Bossa Nova'' (1988, Motor Music GmbH) – Vibraphone *Various artists – ''Chega De Saudade – The Best of Bossa Nova'' (1993, EMI) – Vibraphone *Various artists – ''A Trip to Brazil: Bossa Nova & Beyond'' (2000,

Emarcy EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by the American Mercury Records. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company. During the 1950s and 1960s, musicians such as Max Roach, Clifford Brown ...

) *Various artists- ''Bossa Nova Lounge – Collection'' (2003) – Arranger and vibraphone *

– ''Marcos Valle – Antologia'' (2004, EMI) – Vibraphone * Claudia Telles – ''Tributo a Tom Jobim'' (2004, CID) – Producer, arranger and keyboards *

Gabriel Guerra Gabriel Guerra (1847 – 3 November 1893) was a Mexican sculptor. He was born in Unión de San Antonio, Jalisco and trained at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (National School of Fine Arts) in Mexico City where he studied with Miguel Noreña. ...

– ''Bossa, MPB e Eu'' (2005) * Pascoal Meirelles – ''Quarenta'' (2006, Rob Digital) – Producer * Pascoal Meirelles – ''Tributo a Art Blakey'' (2008, Rob Digital) – Producer *

– ''Roberto Menescal – Coleção Folha 50 Anos de Bossa Nova'' (2008) – Vibraphone

References

External links

Ugo Marotta – vibrafonistaUgo Marotta – arranjador
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marotta, Ugo Brazilian keyboardists Vibraphonists Música Popular Brasileira musicians 1942 births Living people Brazilian composers Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city)

Biography

Discography

See also

References

External links