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Bahia
Bahia (local pronunciation: [baˈi.ɐ]) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size. Bahia's capital is the city of Salvador, or more properly, São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, and is located at the junction of the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of All Saints, first seen by European sailors in 1501. The name "bahia" is an archaic spelling of the Portuguese word baía, meaning "bay".
The state's geographical regions comprise the Atlantic Forest. The Recôncavo region radiating from the Bay (the largest in Brazil), the site of sugar and tobacco cultivation. And the Planalto, which includes the fabled sertão region of Bahia's far interior. Bahia is bordered, in counterclockwise fashion, by Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco and Piauí to the north, Goiás and Tocantins to the west, and Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo to the south. The State of Bahia is crossed from north to south by a mountain chain which is marked, in the map, as Chapada Diamantina. This same chain receives other names, like Serra do Espinhaço, in Minas Gerais, and Borborema, in Pernambuco and Paraíba.
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Baltic states
The term Baltic states (also Baltics, Baltic nations or Baltic countries) refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (from north to south); Finland also fell within the scope of the term from the 1920s to 1939.Estonia is only considered Baltic geographically, not linguistically or culturally, as Estonians and Finns are descendants of the Baltic Finns.
The term in the indigenous languages of the Baltic states is:
The term "Baltic" stems from the name of the Baltic Sea – a hydronym dating back to the 11th century (Adam of Bremen mentioned Latin: Mare Balticum) and earlier.
The Latvian and Lithuanian term Baltija most likely originates from the Indo-European root *bhel meaning white, fair. In modern Baltic languages, namely, Lithuanian language, baltas literally means white, and in Latvian language balts means white also.
Beginning in the Middle Ages and through the present day, the Baltic Sea appears on the maps subscribed in Germanic languages as German: Ostsee, Danish: Østersøen, Dutch: Oostzee, Swedish: Östersjön, etc. In English "Ost" is "East", and in fact, the Baltic Sea mostly lies to the east for Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Clearly, part of the Baltic Sea lies to the east of Germany and Sweden, and due north of parts of Germany.
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Brazil
Brazil
i/brəˈzɪl/ (Portuguese: Brasil, IPA: [bɾaˈziw]), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, 
listen (help·info)), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km (4,655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas region of French Guiana; on the northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. Numerous archipelagos form part of Brazilian territory, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz. It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until 1815, when it was elevated to the rank of kingdom and the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was formed. The colonial bond was in fact broken in 1808, when the capital of the Portuguese colonial empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after Napoleon invaded Portugal.Independence was achieved in 1822 with the formation of the Empire of Brazil, a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system. The country became a presidential republic in 1889, when a military coup d'état proclaimed the Republic, although the bicameral legislature, now called Congress, dates back to the ratification of the first constitution in 1824. Its current Constitution, formulated in 1988, defines Brazil as a Federal Republic. The Federation is formed by the union of the Federal District, the 26 States, and the 5,564 Municipalities.
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Brooklyn
Coordinates: 40°41′34″N 73°59′25″W / 40.69278°N 73.99028°W / 40.69278; -73.99028
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with approximately 2.5 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after New York County (Manhattan). It is also the westernmost county on Long Island.
Brooklyn was an independent city until it was annexed by New York City in 1898. It continues to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves where particular ethnic groups and cultures predominate.
Brooklyn's official motto is Eendraght Maeckt Maght. Written in the (early modern spelling of the) Dutch language, it is inspired by the motto of the United Dutch Provinces and translated "Unity makes strength". The motto is displayed on the borough seal and flag, which also feature a young robed woman bearing fasces, a traditional emblem of republicanism. Brooklyn's official colors are blue and gold.
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Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.
The festival organiser Michael Eavis, a farmer in a Somerset valley stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970. Fourteen people, including John Hoare, invested everything they had to build the stage.
The first festivals in the 1970s were influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field. After the 1970s the festival took place almost every year and grew in size, with the number of attendees sometimes being swollen by gate-crashers.
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Ituaçu
Ituaçu (alternately spelled Ituassú, Ituassu or Ituacu) is a city in the Chapada Diamantina region of Bahia, Brazil. The city is 530 km from Salvador, the capital city of Bahia. It is a land of natural beauty. It is the birthplace of singer Morais Moreira, while another famous singer Gilberto Gil lived there from 2 months old. The climate is temperate, falling to 12 °C during the winter.
Coordinates: 13°49′S 41°18′W / 13.817°S 41.3°W / -13.817; -41.3
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Lagos
Lagos (/ˈleɪɡɒs/ LAY-gos) is a port city and the most populous city in Nigeria. Officially, the population of Lagos was last recorded at 7,937,932. Lagos is the second fastest growing city in Africa and the 7th fastest in the world. Lagos was originally inhabited by the Awori subgroup of the Yoruba people. Under the leadership of their Olofin, the Awori moved to an island now called Iddo and then to the larger Lagos Island. In the 15th century, the Awori settlement was attacked by the Benin Empire following a quarrel, and the island became a Benin war-camp called "Eko" under Oba Orhogba, the Oba of Benin at the time.
Lagos is a huge metropolis which originated on islands separated by creeks, such as Lagos Island, fringing the southwest mouth of Lagos Lagoon whilst protected from the Atlantic Ocean by long sand spits such as Bar Beach, which stretch up to 100 km east and west of the mouth. From the beginning, Lagos has expanded on the mainland west of the lagoon and the conurbation, including Ikeja and Agege, now reaches more than 40 km north-west of Lagos Island. Some suburbs include Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry, and more local councils have recently been created, bringing the total number of local governments in Lagos to 57.
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London
Londoni/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
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New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
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Nigeria
Nigeria
i/naɪˈdʒɪəriə/, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.
In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims in the North and Christians in the South; a very small minority practice traditional religion. Since 2002 there have been a spate of clashes, particularly in the North of the country, between government forces and the Islamists Boko Haram, militant jihadists who seek to establish sharia law.
The people of Nigeria have an extensive history. Archaeological evidence shows that human habitation of the area dates back to at least 9000 BCE. The area around the Benue and Cross River is thought to be the original homeland of the Bantu migrants who spread across most of central and southern Africa in waves between the 1st millennium BC and the 2nd millennium.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( /ˈriːoʊ deɪ ʒəˈnɛəroʊ/ or /ˈriːoʊ deɪ dʒəˈnɛəroʊ/; Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u dʒi ʒaˈnejɾu],River of January), commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th largest in the Americas, and 26th in the world.
The city was the capital of Brazil for nearly two centuries, from 1763 to 1815 during the Portuguese colonial era, 1815 to 1821 as the capital of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves, and 1822 to 1960 as an independent nation. Rio is nicknamed the Cidade Maravilhosa or "Marvelous City."
Rio de Janeiro represents the second largest GDP in the country (and 30th largest in the world in 2008), estimated at about R$ 343 billion (IBGE/2008) (nearly US$ 201 billion), and is the headquarters of two major Brazilian companies – Petrobras and Vale, and major oil companies and telephony in Brazil, besides the largest conglomerate of media and communications companies in Latin America, the Globo Organizations. The home of many universities and institutes, it is the second largest center of research and development in Brazil, accounting for 17% of national scientific production – according to 2005 data.
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Senegal
Senegali/ˌsɛnɨˈɡɔːl/ (French: le Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal (République du Sénégal, IPA: [ʁepyblik dy seneɡal]), is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north. Senegal is externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south; internally it almost completely surrounds The Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, exempting Gambia's short Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 square kilometres (76,000 sq mi), and has an estimated population of about 13 million. The climate is tropical with two seasons: the dry season and the rainy season.
Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, is located at the westernmost tip of the country on the Cap-Vert peninsula. About 500 kilometres (300 mi) off the coast, in the Atlantic Ocean, lie the Cape Verde Islands. During the 17th and 18th centuries, numerous trading posts, belonging to various colonial empires, were established along the coast. The town of St. Louis became the capital of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, or AOF) before it was moved to Dakar in 1902. Dakar later became its capital in 1960 at the time of independence from France.
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Stockholm
Stockholm (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈstɔkːˈhɔlm, ˈstɔkːˈɔlm, ˈstɔkːɔlm]( listen to the second one)) is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 864,324 in the municipality (2010), 1.4 million in the urban area (2010), and around 2.1 million in the 6,519 km2 (2,517.00 sq mi) metropolitan area (2010). As of 2010, the Stockholm metropolitan area is home to approximately 22% of Sweden's population.
Founded no later than c. 1250, possibly as early as 1187, Stockholm has long been one of Sweden's cultural, media, political, and economic centres. Its strategic location on 14 islands on the south-central east coast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago, has been historically important. Stockholm has been nominated by GaWC as a global city, with a ranking of Alpha-. In The 2008 Global Cities Index, Stockholm ranked 24th in the world, 10th in Europe, and first in Scandinavia. Stockholm is known for its beauty, its buildings and architecture, its abundant clean and open water, and its many parks. It is sometimes referred to as Venice of the North.
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São Paulo
São Paulo (/ˌsaʊ ˈpaʊloʊ/; Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w ˈpawlu] (
listen); Saint Paul;), popularly known as Sampa, is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and Americas, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among the five largest metropolitan areas on the planet. São Paulo is the capital of the state of São Paulo, which is the most populous Brazilian state, and exerts strong regional influence in commerce and finance as well as arts and entertainment. São Paulo maintains strong international influence and is considered an Alpha- World City. The name of the city honors Saint Paul.
The metropolis has significant cultural, economic and political influence both nationally and internationally. It houses several important monuments, parks and museums such as the Latin American Memorial, the Museum of the Portuguese Language, São Paulo Museum of Art and the Ibirapuera Park. The Paulista Avenue is the most important financial center of São Paulo. The city holds many high profile events, like the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Brazil Grand Prix Formula 1 Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Fashion Week, ATP Brasil Open, and the São Paulo Indy 300.
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Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet.
Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York on April 13, 1957 to George, an ophthalmologist, and Dorothy (née Bock) Goodman, and graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1975. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1984 with a degree in anthropology. She spent a year studying at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Goodman had been news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York City for over a decade when she co-founded Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report in 1996. Since then, Democracy Now! has been called "probably the most significant progressive news institution that has come around in some time" by professor and media critic Robert McChesney.
In 2001, the show was temporarily pulled off the air, as a result of a conflict with a group of Pacifica Radio board members and Pacifica staff members and listeners. During that time, it moved to a converted firehouse from which it broadcast until November 13, 2009. The new Democracy Now! studio is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
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Antônio Houaiss
Antônio Houaiss (Brazilian Portuguese: ['wajs] or ['uajs]; 1915–1999) was a Brazilian lexicographer, writer and translator, who served as the Minister of Culture.
He was the son of Lebanese immigrants.
He is best known for his translation of James Joyce's Ulysses, and for supervising the composition of the Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa, one of the major reference dictionaries for the Portuguese language.
He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( /ˈbjɜrk/; [ˈpjœr̥k ˈkvʏðmʏntsˌtoʊhtɪr] ( listen); born 21 November 1965), known as Björk, is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her musical style is eclectic and she has achieved recognition in rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical, and folk.
Björk's 1990s singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me" and "Hyperballad" charted in the UK Top 10.[citation needed] Her record label, One Little Indian, reported that by 2003 she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has acquired a high level of critical acclaim. She has won four BRIT Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, one MOJO Award, three UK Music Video Awards, and, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, in recognition for her "deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice".
Björk has also been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, one Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Dancer in the Dark. She was ranked thirty-sixth in VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll", eighth in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music", and sixtieth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (
/ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Bob Marley
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.
Marley's music was heavily influenced by the social issues of his homeland, and he is considered to have given voice to the specific political and cultural nexus of Jamaica. His best-known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Get Up Stand Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, going ten times Platinum which is also known as one Diamond in the U.S., and selling 25 million copies worldwide.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
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Burning Spear
Winston Rodney, OD (born 1 March 1945), also known as Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages.
Rodney was born in Saint Ann's Bay, Saint Ann, Jamaica, as were reggae singer Bob Marley and political activist Marcus Garvey who both had a great influence on Rodney's life: Garvey in his philosophy, which Burning Spear greatly took to, and Marley in directly helping Burning Spear get started in the music industry (by some accounts) by introducing him to Clement Dodd. Rodney met Marley at the latter's farm in 1969, and having told him that he wanted to get into the music business, Marley advised him to start at Dodd's Studio One label.Reggae singer Larry Marshall claimed that it was he, while visiting St. Ann's Bay with Jackie Mittoo, who was approached by Rodney, and gave him this advice, and arranged the introduction.
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Burt Bacharach
Burt F. Bacharach ( /ˈbækəræk/ BAK-ə-rak; born May 12, 1928) is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick. Following on with the initial success of this collaboration, Bacharach went on to produce hits with Dusty Springfield, Bobbie Gentry, Jackie DeShannon and others.
As of 2006[update], Bacharach had written 70 Top 40 hits in the U.S., and 52 Top 40 hits in the UK.
Burt Bacharach was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but grew up in the Forest Hills section of New York City, graduating from Forest Hills High School in 1946. He is the son of Irma (née Freeman) and Bert Bacharach, a well-known syndicated newspaper columnist, and is of German-Jewish descent. Bacharach studied music at McGill University, under Helmut Blume, at the Mannes School of Music, and at the Music Academy of the West in Montecito, California. His composition teachers included Darius Milhaud, Henry Cowell, and Bohuslav Martinů. Following service in the Army, Bacharach worked as a pianist, both as a solo player and as an accompanist for singers such as Vic Damone, Polly Bergen, Steve Lawrence, the Ames Brothers and Paula Stewart (who became his first wife). For some years he was musical arranger for Marlene Dietrich as well as touring with her.
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Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaeˈtɐ̃nu emanuˈɛw viˈɐ̃nɐ ˈtɛlis veˈlozu]; born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since.
Veloso was born in the city of Santo Amaro da Purificação, in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil, but moved to Salvador, the state capital, as a college student in the mid-1960s. Soon after the move, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first label. He became one of the founders of Tropicalismo with a group of several other musicians and artists—including his sister Maria Bethânia—in the same period. However the Brazilian government at the time viewed Veloso's music and political action as threatening, and he was arrested, along with fellow musician Gilberto Gil, in 1969. The two eventually were exiled from Brazil, and went to London, where they lived for two years. After he moved back to his home country, in 1972, Veloso once again began recording and performing, becoming popular outside of Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Celso Furtado
Celso Monteiro Furtado (Pombal, Paraíba, Northeast of Brazil, July 26, 1920 – Rio de Janeiro, November 20, 2004) was an important Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country during the 20th century. His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world. He is viewed, along with Raúl Prebisch, as one of the main formulators of economic structuralism, an economics school that is largely identified with CEPAL, which achieved prominence in Latin America and other developing regions during the 1960s and 1970s and sought to stimulate economic development through governmental intervention, largely inspired on the views of John Maynard Keynes. As a politician, Furtado was appointed Minister of Planning (Goulart government) and Minister of Culture (Sarney government).
Born in Pombal, a city set in the semi-arid region of the state of Paraíba, Celso Furtado moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1939, to study Law, and graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1944. That same year, he was conscripted to the Brazilian Expeditionary Force to fight in Italy, during World War II, alongside the Allies. Seeing countries destroyed in post-war Europe had a profound impact on him, leading to the decision that he would study Economics: he enrolled in a doctorate program at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), in 1946, and presented a thesis on the economy of Brazil during the colonial period.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( /ɡɨˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and, occasionally, singer.
Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated . . . Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time."
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.
In the 1940s Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
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Dorival Caymmi
Dorival Caymmi (April 30, 1914 – August 16, 2008) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years beginning in 1933. He contributed to the birth of Brazil's bossa nova movement, and several of his samba pieces, such as "Samba da Minha Terra" and "Saudade da Bahia", have become staples of Música Popular Brasileira. Equally notable are his ballads celebrating the fishermen and women of Bahia, including "Promessa de Pescador", "O Que É Que a Baiana Tem?", and "Milagre". Caymmi composed about 100 songs in his lifetime, and many of his works are now considered to be Brazilian classics. Both Brazilian and non-Brazilian musicians have covered his songs.
Ben Ratliff of The New York Times wrote that Caymmi was "perhaps second only to Antônio Carlos Jobim in 'establishing a songbook of [the 20th] century’s Brazilian identity.'" Throughout his career, his music about the people and culture of Bahia influenced Brazil's image in the eyes of both Brazilians and foreigners. Caymmi was married to Brazilian singer Stella Maris for 68 years, and the couple's children, Dori Caymmi, Danilo Caymmi, and Nana Caymmi, are also prominent musicians. Each debuted professionally by accompanying their father onstage and in recordings.
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Elijah Wald
Elijah Wald (born 1959) is an American folk blues guitarist and music historian. He is a 2002 Grammy Award winner for his liner notes to The Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Box: "The Journey of Chris Strachwitz".
Wald was born in 1959 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents were George Wald (co-recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) and biologist Ruth Hubbard, with whom Elijah co-authored Exploding the Gene Myth.
At age 18, Wald set of for Europe to try to make a living as a folk-blues guitarist. For roughly the next 12 years, he traveled the world. He fronted a blues band in Seville, Spain, a swing trio in Antwerp, Belgium, and a rock band in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and studied with Congolese guitarist Jean-Bosco Mwenda. Returning to the United States, he played in "low dives and honky-tonks", and recorded two albums: the LP Songster, Fingerpicker, Shirtmaker on his and Bill Morrissey's short-lived label Reckless Records and the CD Street Corner Cowboys (Black Rose Records, 2000). He also arranged and played guitar on one track of Dave Van Ronk's album of Bertolt Brecht songs, and performed as a sideman with Eric Von Schmidt and for several years with the legendary black string band leader Howard Armstrong.
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Elis Regina
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina (Portuguese pronunciation: [eˈlis ʁeˈʒinɐ]; Porto Alegre, March 17, 1945 – São Paulo, January 19, 1982) was an important singer of Brazilian popular music. She became nationally renowned in 1965, after singing "Arrastão" (composed by Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes) in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest, and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record. Elis was noted for her perfect vocalization, as well as for her personal interpretation and outstanding performances in shows. She recorded several successful compositions, such as "Como nossos pais" (Belchior), "Upa Neguinho" (E. Lobo and Gianfrancesco Guarnieri), "Madalena" (Ivan Lins), "Casa no Campo" (Zé Rodrix and Tavito), "Águas de Março" (Tom Jobim), "Atrás da porta" (Chico Buarque and Francis Hime), "O bêbado e a equilibrista" (Aldir Blanc and João Bosco), "Conversando no bar" (Milton Nascimento), etc. Her premature death, at the age of 36, shocked Brazil. Elis Regina is widely regarded as the best Brazilian singer of all times by many critics, musicians, and commentators.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne], (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. Morricone is most famous for his work in the Spaghetti Westerns directed by his friend Sergio Leone, including A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) but his career includes a wide range of composition genres making him one of the film world's most versatile artists. He is considered as one of the most influential film music composers of the 20th century.
Born in Rome, Italy, Morricone took up the trumpet as a child and attended the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to take lessons on the instrument at the age of nine. He formally entered a conservatory at the age of 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony programme. He received his trumpet diploma in 1946 and started working professionally, composing the music to "Il Mattino" ("The Morning"). Morricone soon gained popularity by writing his first background music for radio dramas and quickly moved into film.
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Eric Ericson
Eric Ericson (help·info) (born 26 October 1918, Borås), is a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher. He graduated from the Royal College of Music (Kungl. Musikhögskolan) in Stockholm in 1943 and went on to complete his studies abroad, at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland, and in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States.
Renowned for his innovative teaching methods and the wide-ranging nature of his repertoire, Ericson was the principal conductor of the Orphei Drängar choir at Uppsala University from 1951 until 1991, and choirmaster until 1982 of the Swedish Radio Choir which was established on his initiative in 1951. Also in 1951, he began his teaching career at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, where he became a legendary and inspirational figure, and he was appointed to the chair of choral conducting there in 1968.
He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1995, and in 1997 Ericson shared the Polar Music Prize with Bruce Springsteen: the citation was for "pioneering achievements as a conductor, teacher, artistic originator and inspirer in Swedish and international choral music". On the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1998, Swedbank of Sweden endowed an "Eric Ericson Chair in Choral Directing" to Uppsala University.
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Fela Kuti
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 — 2 August 1997), or simply Fela ([feˈlæ]), was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.
Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria into a middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigerian Union of Teachers. His brothers, Beko Ransome-Kuti and Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, both medical doctors, are well known in Nigeria. Fela was a first cousin to the Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Fela was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music. While there, he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a fusion of jazz and highlife. In 1960, Fela married his first wife, Remilekun (Remi) Taylor, with whom he would have three children (Femi, Yeni, and Sola). In 1963, Fela moved back to Nigeria, re-formed Koola Lobitos and trained as a radio producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. He played for some time with Victor Olaiya and his All Stars.
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Gal Costa
Gal Costa (born Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos on September 26, 1945, in Salvador, Bahia) is a Brazilian singer of popular music.
Gal Costa was born on September 26, 1945, in the city of Salvador, the state capital of the state of Bahia, Brazil. Her mother, Mariah Costa Penna (deceased 1993) spent hours listening to classical music during her pregnancy in hopes that Gal would be interested in music. Gal's father, Arnaldo Burgos (deceased 1960), died when Gal was 15 years old and the two would never meet.
At the age of 10, Gal befriended sisters, Sandra and Andréia Gadelha, the future spouses of singer-songwriters Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, respectively. At 14, she first listened to João Gilberto's "Chega de Saudade" on the radio and became interested in Bossa Nova. She then went on to work as a clerk on Salvador's main record store to get closer to music. At 18, she was introduced to Caetano Veloso by Andréa Gadelha, engaging with him in a deep friendship that still lasts.
Costa debuted her professional career on the night of August 22, 1964 on the concert Nós, por exemplo, where she performed alongside Veloso, Gil, Maria Bethânia and Tom Zé, among others. The concert inaugurated the Vila Velha Theatre in her hometown. During the same year, she also performed in Nova Bossa Velha, Velha Bossa Nova, at the same place and with the same singing partners. She then left Salvador to live in the house of her cousin Nívea in Rio de Janeiro, following the footsteps of Bethânia, whose concert, Opinião, had become a huge hit on the town.
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Gerard Béhague
Gerard Henri Béhague (November 2, 1937 in Montpellier, France - June 13, 2005 in Austin, Texas, USA) was an eminent Franco-American ethnomusicologist and professor of Latin American music. His specialty was the music of Brazil and the Andean countries and the influence of West Africa on the music of the Caribbean and South America, especially Candomblé music. His lifelong work earned him recognition as the leading scholar of Latin American ethnomusicology.
Béhague was born in Montpellier, France and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There he studied piano, music theory and composition at the National School of Music of the University of Brazil and the Brazilian Conservatory of Music. He earned a diploma from the latter (1959), a masters degree in musicology from the University of Paris (Sorbonne; 1962), and a Ph.D. in musicology from Tulane University (1966), where he studied under the noted music historian Gilbert Chase. In 1962, Béhague married Cecilia Pareja, a daughter of Ecuadorian writer and diplomat Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco.
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Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiɫˈbɛʁtu ʒiɫ]) or (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiu̯ˈbɛɾtʊ ʒiu̯]), is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment. 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 music, Brazilian genres including samba, African music, and reggae.
Gil started to play music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band. He began his career as a bossa nova musician, and then 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. Gil moved to London, but returned to state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate.
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György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (Hungarian: Ligeti György Sándor, [ˈliɡɛti ˈɟørɟ ˈʃaːndor]; May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in Hungary before emigrating and becoming an Austrian citizen.
Ligeti was born in Dicsőszentmárton, which was renamed Târnăveni in 1945, in Transylvania to a Hungarian Jewish family. Ligeti recalls that his first exposure to languages other than Hungarian came one day while listening to a conversation among the Romanian-speaking town police. Before that he hadn't known that other languages existed. He moved to Kolozsvár (Cluj) with his family when he was 6, and he was not to return to the town of his birth until the 1990s.
Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at Kolozsvár (Cluj), and during the summers privately with Pál Kadosa in Budapest.
In 1940, Northern Transylvania was occupied by Hungary following the Second Vienna Award. In 1944, Ligeti's education was interrupted when he was sent to a forced labor brigade by the Horthy regime. His brother, age 16, was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, and both of his parents were sent to Auschwitz. His mother was the only other survivor of his immediate family.
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Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis (Greek pronunciation: [ˈʝanis kseˈnakis], Greek: Γιάννης Ξενάκης) (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was a Greek composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalized citizen of France. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic music. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances.
Among his most important works are Metastaseis (1953–4) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as Psappha (1975) and Pléïades (1979); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh (1966); electronic works created using Xenakis's UPIC system; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes. Among the numerous theoretical writings he authored, the book Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (1971) is regarded as one of his most important. As an architect, Xenakis is primarily known for his early work under Le Corbusier: the Sainte Marie de La Tourette, on which the two architects collaborated, and the Philips Pavilion at Expo 58, which Xenakis designed alone.
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Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (Ukrainian: Исаак Стерн, Russian: Айзек Стерн; July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violinist and conductor. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.
Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenets, Ukraine. He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother, then in 1928 enrolled at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied until 1931 before going on to study privately with Louis Persinger. He returned to the San Francisco Conservatory to study for five years with Naoum Blinder, to whom he said he owed the most. At his public début on February 18, 1936, aged 15, he played Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Pierre Monteux. Reflecting on his background, Stern once memorably quipped that cultural exchanges between the US and Soviet Russia were simple affairs: "They send us their Jews from Odessa, and we send them our Jews from Odessa."
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Jackson do Pandeiro
José Gomes Filho (August 31, 1919 – July 10, 1982), more commonly known as Jackson do Pandeiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒaksõ ˈdu pɐ̃ˈdejɾu]), was a Brazilian percussionist and singer.
Jackson was born in Paraíba, Brazil, a region in the northeast of the country. His mother, Flora Mourão, was a musician and singer who played several percussion instruments. As a child he had originally wanted to play the accordion, but his parents could not afford it and bought him a pandeiro, a type of tambourine, in its place. He began playing music with the zabumba, however, in order to assist his mother in performances. When Jackson was 13 years old his family moved to Campina Grande, a city in Paraíba. After the move, Jackson lived in João Pessoa, where he performed in various cabarets and on the radio; and also to Recife, where he eventually began working in a radio station and took the pseudonym of Jackson do Pandeiro. Originally his mother had nicknamed him "Jack", after the actor Jack Perry, who played parts in cowboy films which were popular in Brazil during Jackson's youth. He had his first hit with "Sebastiana", a song based on traditional Brazilian rhythms.
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Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era despite mainstream exposure limited to just three years. After initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, he headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.
Hendrix helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, which he often used to deliver tonal exaggerations in his solos, particularly with high bends, complex guitar playing, and use of legato. As a record producer, he also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas. He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic phasing effects for rock recording.[citation needed] He was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James,rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Hendrix began dressing and wearing a moustache like Little Richard when he performed and recorded in his band from March 1, 1964 through to the spring of 1965. In 1966, he stated, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice".
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Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Cliff, OM (born James Chambers on 1 April 1948) is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor. He is the only currently living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievement in the arts and sciences.
Cliff is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as "Sitting in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want" and "Many Rivers to Cross" from the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, which helped popularize reggae across the world; and his covers of Cat Stevens' "Wild World" and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" from the film Cool Runnings. Outside of the reggae world, he is probably best known for his film appearance in The Harder They Come. Cliff was one of five performers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
Jimmy Cliff was born in Somerton District, St. James, Jamaica. He began writing songs while still at primary school in St. James, listening to a neighbour's sound system. In 1962 his father took him to Kingston to go to Kingston Technical school, where he ended up sharing his cousin's one rented room in East Kingston.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto. In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs ("Urge for Going," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides, Now," "The Circle Game") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" helped define an era and a generation. Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made. Musically restless, Mitchell switched labels and began moving toward jazz rhythms by way of lush pop textures on 1974's Court and Spark, her best-selling LP, featuring her radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris."
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Jorge Ben Jor
Jorge Ben Jor (born March 22, 1945 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian popular musician. His characteristic style fuses samba, funk, and rock into samba rock, with lyrics that blend humor and satire with often esoteric subject matter.
Born Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes, he first took the stage name Jorge Ben after his mother's name (of Ethiopian origin) but in the 1980s changed it to Jorge Ben Jor (commonly written Benjor), allegedly in response to an incident where some of his royalties accidentally went to American guitarist George Benson.
Jorge Ben obtained his first pandeiro (Brazil's most popular type of tambourine) when he was thirteen, and two years later, was singing in a church choir. He also took part as a pandeiro player in the blocos of Carnival, and from eighteen years of age, he began performing at parties and nightclubs with the guitar his mother gave him.
It was at one of those clubs in which he performed that his musical career took off. In 1963, Jorge came on stage and sang "Mas Que Nada" (or "no way") to a small crowd that happened to include an executive from the recording company, Philips. One week later, Jorge Ben's first single was released.
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José Antonio Abreu
José Antonio Abreu (born May 7, 1939 in Valera) is a Venezuelan pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician.
Born in the city of Valera in 1939, Abreu graduated ¨Summa Cum Laude¨ as an Economist at Universidad Católica Andres Bello and he was awarded a PhD degree in Petroleum Economics from the same university in 1961. Abreu also did some graduate work at the University of Michigan. He served as a Deputy at the Chamber of Deputies in the Congress of Venezuela. After his political career, he also worked as a professor of economics and law at Universidad Simón Bolívar and his Alma Mater. He would return to politics briefly in 1983 to serve as Minister of Culture.
Abreu began to study music with Doralisa Jiménez de Medina in Barquisimeto. Later, he attended the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy in 1957, where he studied piano with Moisés Moleiro, organ and harpsichord with Evencio Castellanos, and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. In 1967, he received the Symphonic Music National Prize for his musical ability. It was in 1975 that he founded El Sistema, formally known as the Foundation for the National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela.
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João Gilberto
João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒwɐ̃w ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; June 10, 1931), is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. His seminal recordings, including many songs by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, established the new musical genre of Bossa nova in the late 1950s.
João Gilberto was born in Juazeiro, Bahia. From an early age, music was a part of Gilberto's life. His grandfather bought him his first guitar at the age of 14. During high school, Gilberto teamed up with some of his classmates to form a small band. Gilberto, who led the band, was influenced by Brazilian popular songs, American jazz, and even some opera, among other genres. After trying his luck as a radio singer in Salvador, Bahia, the young Gilberto was recruited in 1950 as lead singer of the vocal quintet Garotos da Lua (Moon Boys) and moved to Rio de Janeiro. A year and a half later, he was dismissed from the group for his lack of discipline (he would often show up late to rehearsals or not at all).
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Julian Dibbell
Julian Dibbell ( /dɨˈbɛl/; born February 23, 1963) is an American author and technology journalist with a particular interest in social systems within online communities. His 1993 article "A Rape in Cyberspace" detailed attempts of LambdaMOO, an online community, to quantify and deal with lawbreaking in its midst. The article was later included in Dibbell's book, My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. Additionally, Dibbell has chronicled the evolution of online worlds for Wired Magazine, and has written about his attempt to make a living playing MMORPGs in the book Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot. Dibbell is also a founder of the academic gaming research blog Terra Nova.
Dibbell was born in New York City. He grew up in Claremont, California, and currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, attending the University of Chicago Law School.
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.
Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as a group leader and a solo performer. His improvisations draw not only from the traditions of jazz, but from other genres as well, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first (and to this day only) recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient, and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll.
Jarrett grew up in suburban Allentown, Pennsylvania, with significant early exposure to music. He possessed absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child. He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman. The young Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Saint-Saëns, and ending with two of his own compositions. Encouraged especially by his mother, Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute.
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Larry Rohter
William Lawrence Rohter, Jr. — known as Larry Rohter — (born in Oak Park, Illinois, February 3, 1950) is an American journalist who was a South American bureau chief (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) for The New York Times from 1999 to 2007. Previously, he was Caribbean and Latin American correspondent of the Times from 1994 to 1999. He now writes about cultural topics.
In 1998, Rohter was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize at Columbia University. He was also awarded the Brazilian Embratel prize, as the "Melhor correspondente estrangeiro" (best foreign correspondent).
Rohter is married to Clotilde Rohter. They have 2 children. He lives today in Hoboken, New Jersey".
Rohter published an article titled "Brazilian Leader's Tippling Becomes National Concern", insinuating the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had a drinking problem that affected his presidency. The article's only quoted source for Lula's alcoholism was Leonel Brizola, a sworn political enemy of Mr. da Silva. The article caused consternation in the Brazilian press. Rohter's visa was temporarily revoked (and quickly reinstated) by Brazil's government, an event which overshadowed much criticism of Rohter's reporting.
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Luiz Gonzaga
Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento(Portuguese pronunciation: [lu'is gõ'zagɐ]) (Exu, December 13, 1912 — Recife, August 2, 1989) was a very prominent Brazilian folk singer, songwriter, musician and poet. Born in the countryside of Pernambuco (Northeastern Brazil), he is considered to be responsible for the promotion of northeastern music throughout the rest of the country. He is also known as the "king of baião" and "Gonzagão".
Gonzaga's son, Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento Júnior, known as Gonzaguinha, born 1945, was also a noted Brazilian singer and composer. He was also a famous Brazilian freemason that composed Acacia Amarela (Yellow Acacia). The Luiz Gonzaga Dam was named in his honor.
The son of a peasant and accordion player, Gonzaga was attracted to the 8-bass accordion at a very early age, but at that time he used to accompany his father by playing the zabumba (type of bass drum) and singing at parties and religious celebrations. He left home in 1930 to join the army, and toured Brazil with an army band until 1939. Gonzaga decided to remain in Rio de Janeiro with a recently purchased accordion. He used to perform in the streets and in bars, playing boleros, waltzes and tangos.
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Maria Bethânia
Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso (born 18 June 1946 in Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia Brazil), better known as Maria Bethânia (Portuguese pronunciation: [maˈɾiɐ beˈtɐ̃niɐ]), is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião" ("Opinion"). Due to its popularity, and the popularity of her 1965 single "Carcará", the singer became a star in Brazil, with performances all over the country. She has released over 30 albums to date.
In her childhood, Bethânia had aspirations to become an actress. However, her mother was a musician, so music was prevalent in the Veloso household. Though Bethânia was born in Santo Amaro da Purifição, her family moved to Salvador, Bahia when she was 13 years old. The move allowed her to experience the bohemian, intellectual circles of the city as well as to visit theaters. When she was 16, her brother Caetano Veloso invited her to sing in a film for which he was producing the soundtrack, but she refused. However, the film's director, Álvaro Guimarães, liked her voice and invited the young musician to perform in a 1963 performance of a Nélson Rodrigues musical. She began performing again with her brother, as well as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Zé, at the opening of the Vila Velha Theater in the next year. During one of these performances, the bossa nova musician Nara Leão offered her an opportunity to take her place in a series of performances titled "Opinião". She released her first single, a protest song named "Carcará", in 1965, the same year as her brother released his first recording.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976); German pronunciation: [ˈmaɐ̯tiːn ˈhaɪdɛɡɐ]) was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."
Heidegger argues that philosophy is preoccupied with what exists and has forgotten the question of the "ground" of being. We find ourselves "always already" fallen into a world that already existed; but he insists that we have forgotten the basic question of what being itself is. This question defines our central nature. He argues that we are practical agents, caring and concerned about our projects in the world, and allowing it to reveal, or "unconceal" itself to us. He also says that our manipulation of reality is often harmful and hides our true being as essentially limited participants, not masters, of the world which we discover.
Heidegger wrote about these issues in his best-known book, Being and Time (1927), which is considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. Heidegger's influence is far reaching, from philosophy to deconstructionism and literary theory, theology, architecture, and artificial intelligence.
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Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz fusion.
Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois. His father, Dr. Miles Henry Davis, was a dentist. In 1927 the family moved to East St. Louis, Illinois. They also owned a substantial ranch in northern Arkansas, where Davis learned to ride horses as a boy.
Davis' mother, Cleota Mae (Henry) Davis, wanted her son to learn the piano; she was a capable blues pianist but kept this fact hidden from her son. His musical studies began at 13, when his father gave him a trumpet and arranged lessons with local musician Elwood Buchanan. Davis later suggested that his father's instrument choice was made largely to irk his wife, who disliked the trumpet's sound. Against the fashion of the time, Buchanan stressed the importance of playing without vibrato; he was reported to have slapped Davis' knuckles every time he started using heavy vibrato. Davis would carry his clear signature tone throughout his career. He once remarked on its importance to him, saying, "I prefer a round sound with no attitude in it, like a round voice with not too much tremolo and not too much bass. Just right in the middle. If I can’t get that sound I can’t play anything."Clark Terry was another important early influence.[citation needed]
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Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 10 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist.
In the 1960s she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music in the U.S. and around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela.
She actively campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. As a result, the South African government revoked her citizenship and right of return. After the end of apartheid she returned home. She died on 10 November 2008 after performing in a concert organized to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the Region of Campania.
Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her mother was a Swazi sangoma (traditional healer-herbalist). Her father, who died when she was six years old, was a Xhosa. When she was eighteen days old, her mother was arrested for selling umqombothi, an African homemade beer brewed from malt and cornmeal. Her mother was sentenced to a six-month prison term, so Miriam spent her first six months of life in jail. As a child, she sang in the choir of the Kilmerton Training Institute in Pretoria, a primary school that she attended for eight years.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt) (born 6 December 1929) is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement. Around 1970, Harnoncourt started to conduct opera and concert performances, soon leading renowned international symphony orchestras, and appearing at leading concert halls, operatic venues and festivals. His repertoire has since widened to include composers of the 19th and 20th century. In 2001 and 2003, he conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert. Harnoncourt is also the author of several books, mostly on questions of performance history and musical aesthetics.
Harnoncourt was born in Berlin, Germany. He was raised in Graz, Austria and studied music in Vienna. His mother, Ladislaja Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven, was the granddaughter of the Habsburg Archduke Johann, the 13th child of the Emperor Leopold II. He is thus descended from various Holy Roman Emperors and other European royalty. His father, Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt, was an engineer working in Berlin who had two children from a previous marriage. Two years after Nikolaus's birth, his brother Philipp was born. The family eventually moved to Graz, where Eberhard had obtained a post in the state-government (Landesregierung) of Styria.
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Called the "Godmother of Punk", her work was a fusion of rock and poetry. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness. As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
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Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album's biggest hit, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and the song is the most played music video in the history of the station.
More recently, Gabriel has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has also been involved in various humanitarian efforts. Gabriel has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, and in 2007 he was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers.” Gabriel was also awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2009, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ bu.lɛːz]) (born 26 March 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.
Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics. He pursued the latter at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and the wife of Arthur Honegger, Andrée Vaurabourg.
Through Messiaen, Boulez discovered twelve-tone technique — which he would later study privately with René Leibowitz — and went on to write atonal music in a post-Webernian serial style. Boulez was initially part of a cadre of early supporters of Leibowitz, but due to an altercation with Leibowitz, their relations turned divisive, as Boulez spent much of his career promoting the music of Messiaen instead.
The first fruits of this were his cantatas Le visage nuptial and Le soleil des eaux for female voices and orchestra, both composed in the late 1940s and revised several times since, as well as the Second Piano Sonata of 1948, a well-received 32-minute work that Boulez composed at the age of 23. Thereafter, Boulez was influenced by Messiaen's research to extend twelve-tone technique beyond the realm of pitch organization, serialising durations, dynamics, mode of attack, and so on. This technique became known as integral serialism.
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Preta Gil
Preta Gil (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpretɐ ˈʒiw], born August 8, 1974) is a Brazilian singer and actress. She is the daughter of Gilberto Gil, a famous musician and former Minister of Culture in Brazil.
In 1974, Preta Gil's father, the famous singer Gilberto Gil, went to a government office to register his daughter's name after his own mother's name. Upon arrival, the clerk informed him he was unable to register Preta as a name for his daughter. Gilberto Gil began to protest, "Why not? There's Bianca (White), Blanca (White), Clara (Clear) and Rosa (Rose) . . . why can't Preta (Black) be a name?". The clerk conceded, only if the child was registered along with a Catholic name. So Preta Gil was registered "Preta Maria".
Preta lived in Rio, and at the age of one, she moved to Salvador. Her mother, Sandra, soon after had another daughter named "Maria". Gil always believed it was lack of creativity. She had an older brother, "Pedro", who was born in London, at the time of her father's famous exile from Brazil during the Military Dictatorship, along with friend and singer Caetano.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations. At the 2008 BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. He was played by Larenz Tate in the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”
The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, Louis Armstrong. His playing reflected influences from country blues and barrelhouse, and stride piano styles.
Rolling Stone ranked Charles number ten on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"
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Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice. Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also speaks fluent German and French, along with limited Italian. Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Arabella.
A Richard Tucker Award winner, she regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide. In 2008 she was awarded the Swedish Polar Music Prize for her services in music.
Conductor Sir Georg Solti said of Fleming, "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing; the other was Renata Tebaldi."
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Robert Moog
Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog (/ˈmoʊɡ/ MOHG; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
Bob Moog's innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.
A native of New York City, Moog attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York, graduating in 1952. Moog earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Queens College, New York in 1957, another in electrical engineering from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University. Moog's awards include honorary doctorates from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (New York City) and Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania).
During his lifetime, Moog founded two companies for manufacturing electronic musical instruments. He also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988, helping to develop the Kurzweil K2000. He spent the early 1990s as a research professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Russian: Софи́я Асгатовна Губайду́лина, Tatar Cyrillic: София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина, Latin: Sofia Äsğät qızı Ğöbäydullina) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.
Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations. In Erwartung combines percussion (bongos, güiros, temple blocks, cymbals and tam-tams among others), bayan and saxophone quartet.
Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol, in the Tatar ASSR. She studied composition and piano at the Kazan Conservatory, graduating in 1954. In Moscow she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963. She was awarded with Stalin-fellowship. Her music was deemed "irresponsible" during her studies in Soviet Russia, due to its exploration of alternative tunings. She was supported, however, by Dmitri Shostakovich, who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path". However, she was allowed to express her modernism in various scores she composed for documentary films, including the 1968 production, On Submarine Scooters, a 70mm film shot in the unique Kinopanorama widescreen format.
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Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
Although Rollins was born in New York City, his parents were born in the United States Virgin Islands. Rollins received his first saxophone at age 13. He attended Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He said that a concert by Frank Sinatra there, accompanied by a plea for racial harmony, changed his life.
Rollins started as a pianist, changed to alto saxophone, and finally switched to tenor in 1946. During his high-school years, he played in a band with other future jazz legends Jackie McLean, Kenny Drew and Art Taylor. He was first recorded in 1949 with Babs Gonzales ( J. J. Johnson was the arranger of the group). In his recordings through 1954, he played with performers such as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk.
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Steve Reich
Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich ( /ˈraɪʃ/; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is one of the pioneering composers of minimal music along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass.
His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum Music" and "Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains.
Reich's style of composition influenced many other composers and musical groups. Reich has been described, in The Guardian by music critic Andrew Clements, as one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history", and the critic Kyle Gann has said Reich "may...be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer."
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Sun Ra
Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a 1979 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
"Of all the jazz musicians, Sun Ra was probably the most controversial," critic Scott Yanow said, because of Sun Ra's eclectic music and unorthodox lifestyle. Claiming that he was of the "Angel Race" and not from Earth, but from Saturn, Sun Ra developed a complex persona using "cosmic" philosophies and lyrical poetry that made him a pioneer of afrofuturism. He preached awareness and peace above all. He abandoned his birth name and took on the name and persona of Sun Ra (Ra being the Egyptian God of the Sun), and used several other names throughout his career, including Le Sonra and Sonny Lee. Sun Ra denied any connection with his birth name, saying "That's an imaginary person, never existed … Any name that I use other than Ra is a pseudonym."
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Tom Zé
Tom Zé (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtõ ˈzɛ]; born Antônio José Santana Martins, 11 October 1936 in Irará, Bahia, Brazil) is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil. After the peak of the Tropicália period, Zé went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when the musician and label head David Byrne discovered an album recorded by Zé many years earlier, that he returned to performing and releasing new material.
Tom Zé grew up in the small town of Irará, Bahia in the dry sertão region of the country's Northeast. He would later claim that his hometown was "pre-Gutenbergian", as information was primarily transferred through oral communication. As a child, he was influenced by Brazilian musicians such as Luiz Gonzaga and Jackson do Pandeiro. Zé became interested in music by listening to the radio, and moved to the state capital of Salvador to pursue a degree. He later relocated to São Paulo and began his career in popular music there. Much of his early work involved his wry impressions of the massive metropolitan area, coming from a small town in the relatively poor northeast.
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Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev PAR (Russian: Валерий Абисалович Гергиев, Ossetic: Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери/Gergity Abisaly Fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
Gergiev, born in Moscow, is the son of Tamara Tatarkanovna and Abisal Zaurbekovich. He and his siblings were raised in Vladikavkaz in their native North Ossetia in the Caucasus. He began piano at secondary school, before going on to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Leningrad from 1972 to 1977. His principal conducting teacher was Prof. Ilya Musin (Илья Мусин), one of the greatest conductor-makers in Russian musical history. His sister, Larissa Gergieva, is a pianist and director of the Mariinsky's singers' academy.
In 1978, he became assistant conductor at the Kirov Opera, now the Mariinsky Opera, under Yuri Temirkanov, where he made his debut conducting Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace. He was chief conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1981 until 1985 – the year he made his debut in the United Kingdom, along with pianist Evgeny Kissin, and violinists Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin, at The Lichfield Festival.
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Witold Lutosławski
Witold Lutosławski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvitɔld lutɔsˈwafski]; January 25, 1913 – February 7, 1994) was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. He earned many international awards and prizes, including the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.
During his youth, Lutosławski studied piano and composition in Warsaw. His early works were influenced by Polish folk music. His style demonstrates a wide range of rich atmospheric textures. He began to develop his own characteristic composition techniques in the late 1950s. His music from this period onwards incorporates his own methods of building harmonies from small groups of musical intervals. It also uses aleatoric processes, in which the rhythmic coordination of parts is subject to an element of chance. His compositions (of which he was a notable conductor) include four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, a string quartet, several instrumental concertos and orchestral song cycles.
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Gil, Gilberto Filmography
- 'Jorge Mautner - O Filho do Holocausto' (2012)
- Thiaguinho: Ousadia & Alegria (2012)
- Tropicália (2012)
- Esquenta! (2011)
- O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois (2011)
- Ivete Gil Caetano (2011)
- Rio Sonata: Nana Caymmi (2010)
- Uma Noite em 67 (2010)
- 2012: Time for Change (2010)
- Hebe: Mulher e Amigos (2010)
- O Homem que Engarrafava Nuvens (2009)
- Beyond Ipanema (2009)
- Herbert de Perto (2009)
- Cirque du Soleil's Poetic Social Mission (2009)
- Alô, Alô Terezinha! (2009)
- Dzi Croquettes (2009)
- Loki - Arnaldo Baptista (2008)
- Retrato Celular (2007)
- Brasil Brasil (2007)
- Cartola - Música Para os Olhos (2007)
- Fabricando Tom Zé (2006)
- Celestina (2006)
- O Sol - Caminhando Contra o Vento (2006)
- À la recherche d'Orfeu Negro (2005)
- Vinicius (2005)
- Chame Gente - A História do Trio Elétrico (2005)
- Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume (2005)
- Samba Riachão (2005)
- À la recherche d'Orfeu Negro (2005)
- Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004)
- Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue (2004)
- El milagro de Candeal (2004)
- Ivete Sangalo: Ao Vivo MTV (2004)
- Glauber o Filme, Labirinto do Brasil (2003)
- Bloco Afro and Afoxé: Afro-Brazilian Carnival as a Political & Religious Stage (2003)
- A Pessoa É Para o Que Nasce (2003)
- Gilberto Gil - Kaya N'Gandaya (2002)
- Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei (2002)
- Joana e Marcelo, Amor (Quase) Perfeito (2002)
- Outros (Doces) Bárbaros (2002)
- Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico (2002)
- Viva São João! (2002)
- Desejos de Mulher (2002)
- Fama (2002)
- Fama (2002)
- Joana e Marcelo, Amor (Quase) Perfeito (2002)
- Viva São João! (2002)
- Festive Land: Carnaval in Bahia (2001)
- Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil (2001)
- Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil (2001)
- Afinação da Interioridade (2001)
- Eu Tu Eles (2000)
- Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Mensageiro Entre Dois Mundos (2000)
- Yo quiero (2000)
- Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Mensageiro Entre Dois Mundos (2000)
- Além Mar (1999)
- Ed Mort (1997)
- Milton Nascimento - A Sede do Peixe (1997)
- Bahia de Todos os Sambas (1996)
- O Mandarim (1995)
- Gal Costa: Programa Ensaio (1994)
- Veja Esta Canção (1994)
- Touche pas à mon pote (1988)
- A Cor da Terra (1988)
- Um Trem para as Estrelas (1987)
- O Cinema Falado (1986)
- Gilberto Gil - Bahia, Suíça e Japão (1986)
- Quilombo (1986)
- Jubiabá (1986)
- Parabéns pra Você (1983)
- Corações a Mil (1981)
- Brasil (1981)
- Nosotras las mujeres (1981)
- Corações a Mil (1981)
- Tenda dos Milagres (1977)
- Os doces Bárbaros (1977)
- Passe Livre (1974)
- Mito e Contramito da Família Pernambucobaiana (1974)
- Passe Livre (1974)
- Elis Regina: MPB Especial (1973)
- O Demiurgo (1972)
- Copacabana Mon Amour (1970)
- Bahia Por Exemplo (1970)
- Music Tropical (1970)
- Brasil Ano 2000 (1969)
- Brasil Verdade (1968)
- Brasil Verdade (1968)
- Brasil Verdade (1968)
- Balada de Página Três (1968)
- As Cariocas (1966)
- Les carnets Brésiliens (1966)
- A Paz ( Leila IV ) - Gilberto Gil
- Sítio Do Pica-Pau Amarelo - Gilberto Gil
- Marina - Gilberto Gil
- Logunedá - Gilberto Gil
- Vamos Fugir ( Gimme Your Love ) - Gilberto Gil
- Tempo Rei - Gilberto Gil
- Palco - Gilberto Gil
- Jeca Total - Gilberto Gil
- Tradição - Gilberto Gil
- Toda Menina Baiana - Gilberto Gil
- Superhomem - A Canção - Gilberto Gil
- Sarará Miolo - Gilberto Gil
- Rebento - Gilberto Gil
- Realce - Gilberto Gil
- Não Chore Mais ( No Woman, No Cry ) - Gilberto Gil
- Pela Internet - Gilberto Gil
- Waiting In Vain - Gilberto Gil
- Turn Your Lights Down Low - Gilberto Gil
- Three Little Birds - Gilberto Gil
- Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) - Gilberto Gil
- Tempo Só (Time Will Tell) - Gilberto Gil
- Table Tennis Table - Gilberto Gil
- Rebel Music (3 O’Clock Road Block) - Gilberto Gil
- Positive Vibration - Gilberto Gil
- One Drop - Gilberto Gil
- Lick Samba - Gilberto Gil
- Kaya N´Gan Daya (Kaya) - Gilberto Gil
- Eleve-se Alto Ao Céu ( Lively Up Yourself ) - Gilberto Gil
- Eu Preciso Aprender A Só Ser - Gilberto Gil
- Easy Skankin´ - Gilberto Gil
- Could You Be Loved - Gilberto Gil
- Buffalo Soldier - Gilberto Gil
- Procissão - Gilberto Gil
- Pega A Voga, Cabeludo - Gilberto Gil
- Pé Da Roseira - Gilberto Gil
- Marginália II - Gilberto Gil
- Luzia Luluza - Gilberto Gil
- Frego Rasgado - Gilberto Gil
- Ele Falava Nisso Todo Dia - Gilberto Gil
- Domingou - Gilberto Gil
- Domingo No Parque - Gilberto Gil
- Coragem Pra Suportar - Gilberto Gil
A paz, invadiu o meu coração
De repente me encheu de paz
Como se o vento de um tufão
Arrancasse os meus pés do chão
Onde eu já não me enterro mais.
A paz, fez o mar da revolução, invadir meu destino
A paz, com aquela grande explosão
Uma bomba sobre o Japão,
Fez nascer um Japão na paz
Eu pensei em mim,
Eu pensei em ti,
Eu chorei por nós
Que contradição,
Só a guerra faz
Nosso amor em paz!
Eu vim, vim parar na beira do cais
Onde a estrada chegou ao fim,
Onde o fim da tarde é lilás
Onde o mar arrebenta em mim,
O lamento de tantos ais!
Marmelada de banana
Bananada de goiaba
Goiabada de marmelo
Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo
Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo
Boneca de pano é gente
Sabugo de milho é gente
O sol nascente é tão belo
Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo
Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo
Rios de prata piratas
Vôo sideral na mata
Universo paralelo
Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo
Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo
No país da fantasia
Num estado de euforia
Cidade polichinelo
Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo
Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo
Marina, morena Marina
Você se pintou
Marina, você faça tudo
Mas faça um favor
Não pinte esse rosto que eu gosto
Que eu gosto, e é só meu
Marina, você já é bonita
Com o que Deus lhe deu
Já me aborreci, me zanguei
Já não posso falar
E quando eu me zango, Marina
Não sei perdoar
Eu já desculpei tanta coisa
Você não arranjava outro igual
Desculpe, morena Marina
Mas eu tô de mal
(Eu tô de mal com você)
Eu tô de mal
(Eu tô de mal com você)
Eu tô de mal
(Eu tô de mal com você)
Marina, ai ai ai
(Eu tô de mal com você)
Morena
(Eu tô de mal com você)
Uh uh uh uh
(Eu tô de mal com você)
Eu tô de mal
(Eu tô de mal com você)
Eu tô de mal
(Eu tô de mal)
Repete tudo
É de Logunedé a doçura
Filho de Oxum, Logunedé
Mimo de Oxum, Logunedé - edé, edé
Tanta ternura
É de Logunedé a riqueza
Filho de Oxum, Logunedé
Mimo de Oxum, Logunedé - edé, edé
Tanta beleza
Logunedé é demais
Sabido, puxou aos pais
Astúcia de caçador
Paciência de pescador
Logunedé é demais
Logunedé é depois
Que Oxossi encontra a mulher
Que a mulher decide ser
A mãe de todo prazer
Logunedé é depois
É pra Logunedé a carícia
Filho de Oxum, Logunedé
Mimo de Oxum, Logunedé - edé, edé
É delícia
Vamos fugir (Gimme your love)
Deste lugar, baby (Gimme your love)
Vamos fugir
Tô cansado de esperar
Que você me carregue
Vamos fugir (Gimme your love)
Proutro lugar, baby (Gimme your love)
Vamos fugir
Pronde quer que você vá
Que você me carregue
Pois diga que irá
Irajá, Irajá
Pronde eu só veja você
Você veja a mim só
Marajó, Marajó
Qualquer outro lugar comum
Outro lugar qualquer
Guaporé, Guaporé
Qualquer outro lugar ao sol
Outro lugar ao sul
Céu azul, céu azul
Onde haja só meu corpo nu
Junto ao seu corpo nu
Vamos fugir (Gimme your love)
Proutro lugar, baby (Gimme your love)
Vamos fugir
Pronde haja um tobogã
Onde a gente escorregue
Todo dia de manhã
Flores que a gente regue
Uma banda de maçã
Outra banda de reggae
Não me iludo, tudo permanecerá de um jeito
Que tem sido, transcorrendo, transformando
Tempo e espaço navegando todos os sentidos
Pães de Açúcar, Corcovados
Fustigados pela chuva e pelo eterno vento
Água mole, pedra dura
Tanto bate que não restará nem pensamento
Tempo rei, ó tempo rei, ó tempo rei
Transformai as velhas formas do viver
Ensinai, ó Pai, o que eu ainda não sei
Mãe Senhora do Perpétuo socorrei
Pensamento, mesmo fundamento singular
Do ser humano, de um momento para o outro
Poderá não mais fundar nem gregos nem baianos
Mães zelosas, pais corujas
Vejam como as águas de repente ficam sujas
Não se iludam, não me iludo
Subo nesse palco
Minha alma cheira a talco
Como bumbum de bebê
De bebê
Minha aura clara
Só quem é clarividente pode ver
Pode ver
Trago a minha banda
Só quem sabe onde é Luanda
Saberá lhe dar valor
Dar valor
Vale quanto pesa
Pra quem preza o louco bumbum do tambor
Do tambor
Fogo eterno pra afugentar
O inferno pra outro lugar
Fogo eterno pra consumir
O inferno fora daqui
Venho para a festa
Sei que muitos têm na testa
O deus Sol como um sinal
Um sinal
Eu, como devoto
Trago um cesto de alegrias de quintal
De quintal
Há também um cântaro
Quem manda é a deusa Música
Pedindo pra deixar
Pra deixar
Derramar o bálsamo
Fazer o canto cântaro cantar
Lalaiá
Fogo eterno pra afugentar
O inferno pra outro lugar
Fogo eterno pra consumir
O inferno fora daqui
Jeca Total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Presente, passado
Representante da gente no Senado
Em plena sessão
Defendendo um projeto
Que eleva o teto
Salarial no sertão
Jeca Total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Doente curado
Representante da gente na sala
Defronte da televisão
Assistindo Gabriela
Viver tantas cores
Dores da emancipação
Jeca Total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Um ente querido
Representante da gente no Olimpo
Da imaginação
Imaginacionando o que seria a criação
De um ditado
Dito popular
Mito da mitologia brasileira
Jeca Total
Jeca Total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Um tempo perdido
Interessante a maneira do tempo
Ter perdição
Quer dizer, se perder no correr
Decorrer da história
Glória, decadência, memória
Era de Aquarius
Ou mera ilusão
Jeca Total deve ser Jeca Tatu
Jorge Salomão
(2X)
Jeca Total Jeca Tatu Jeca Total Jeca Tatu
Jeca Tatu Jeca Total Jeca Tatu Jeca Total
Conheci uma garota que era do Barbalho
Uma garota do barulho
Namorava um rapaz que era muito inteligente
Um rapaz muito diferente
Inteligente no jeito de pongar no bonde
E diferente pelo tipo
De camisa aberta e certa calça americana
Arranjada de contrabando
E sair do banco e, desbancando, despongar do bonde
Sempre rindo e sempre cantando
Sempre lindo e sempre, sempre, sempre, sempre, sempre
Sempre rindo e sempre cantando
Conheci essa garota que era do Barbalho
Essa garota do barulho
No tempo que Lessa era goleiro do Bahia
Um goleiro, uma garantia
No tempo que a turma ia procurar porrada (*)
Na base da vã valentia
No tempo que preto não entrava no Bahiano
Nem pela porta da cozinha
Conheci essa garota que era do Barbalho
No lotação de Liberdade
Que passava pelo ponto dos Quinze Mistérios
Indo do bairro pra cidade
Pra cidade, quer dizer, pro Largo do Terreiro
Pra onde todo mundo ia
Todo dia, todo dia, todo santo dia
Eu, minha irmã e minha tia
No tempo quem governava era Antonio Balbino
No tempo que eu era menino
Menino que eu era e veja que eu já reparava
Numa garota do Barbalho
Reparava tanto que acabei já reparando
No rapaz que ela namorava
Reparei que o rapaz era muito inteligente
Um rapaz muito diferente
Inteligente no jeito de pongar no bonde
E diferente pelo tipo
De camisa aberta e certa calça americana
Arranjada de contrabando
E sair do banco e, desbancando, despongar do bonde
Sempre rindo e sempre cantando
Sempre lindo e sempre, sempre, sempre, sempre, sempre
Sempre rindo e sempre cantando
* Variante: No tempo que a turma ia só jogar pernada
Toda menina baiana tem um santo, que Deus dá
Toda menina baiana tem encanto, que Deus dá
Toda menina baiana tem um jeito, que Deus dá
Toda menina baiana tem defeito também que Deus dá
Que Deus deu
Que Deus dá
Que Deus entendeu de dar a primazia
Pro bem, pro mal, primeira mão na Bahia
Primeira missa, primeiro índio abatido também
Que Deus deu
Que Deus entendeu de dar toda magia
Pro bem, pro mal, primeiro chão na Bahia
Primeiro carnaval, primeiro pelourinho também
Que Deus deu
Que Deus deu
Que Deus dá
Um dia
Vivi a ilusão de que ser homem bastaria
Que o mundo masculino tudo me daria
Do que eu quisesse ter
Que nada
Minha porção mulher, que até então se resguardara
É a porção melhor que trago em mim agora
É que me faz viver
Quem dera
Pudesse todo homem compreender, oh, mãe, quem dera
Ser o verão o apogeu da primavera
E só por ela ser
Quem sabe
O Superhomem venha nos restituir a glória
Mudando como um deus o curso da história
Por causa da mulher
Sara, sara, sara, sarará
Sara, sara, sara, sarará
Sarará miolo
Sara, sara, sara cura
Dessa doença de branco
Sara, sara, sara cura
Dessa doença de branco
De querer cabelo liso
Já tendo cabelo louro
Cabelo duro é preciso
Que é para ser você, crioulo
Rebento, substantivo abstrato
O ato, a criação, o seu momento
Como uma estrela nova e o seu barato
Que só Deus sabe lá no firmamento
Rebento, tudo que nasce é rebento
Tudo que brota, que vinga, que medra
Rebento raro como flor na pedra
Rebento farto como trigo ao vento
Outras vezes rebento simplesmente
No presente do indicativo
Como a corrente de um cão furioso
Como as mãos de um lavrador ativo
Às vezes, mesmo perigosamente
Como acidente em forno radioativo
Às vezes, só porque fico nervoso
Às vezes, somente porque eu estou vivo
Rebento, a reação imediata
A cada sensação de abatimento
Rebento, o coração dizendo: "Bata"
A cada bofetão do sofrimento
Rebento, esse trovão dentro da mata
E a imensidão do som
E a imensidão do som
E a imensidão do som desse momento
Não se incomode
O que a gente pode, pode
O que a gente não pode, explodirá
A força é bruta
E a fonte da força é neutra
E de repente a gente poderá
Realce, realce
Quanto mais purpurina, melhor
Realce, realce
Com a cor do veludo
Com amor, com tudo
De real teor de beleza
Não se impaciente
O que a gente sente, sente
Ainda que não se tente, afetará
O afeto é fogo
E o modo do fogo é quente
E de repente a gente queimará
Realce, realce
Quanto mais parafina, melhor
Realce, realce
Com a cor do veludo
Com amor, com tudo
De real teor de beleza
Não desespere
Quando a vida fere, fere
E nenhum mágico interferirá
Se a vida fere
Como a sensação do brilho
De repente a gente brilhará
Realce, realce
Quanto mais serpentina, melhor
Realce, realce
Com a cor do veludo
Com amor, com tudo
De real teor de beleza
No, woman no cry
No, woman no cry
(2X)
Bem que eu me lembro
Da gente sentado alí
Na grama do aterro sob o sol
Ob - observando hipócritas
Disfarçados rondando ao redor
Amigos presos, amigos sumindo assim
Pra nunca mais
Das recordações, retratos do mal em si
Melhor é deixar pra trás
Não, não chore mais
Não, não chore mais!
(2X)
Bem que eu me lembro
Da gente sentado ali
Na grama do aterro sob o céu
Ob - observando estrelas
Junto à fogueirinha de papel
Quentar o frio, requentar o pão
E comer com você
Os pés, de manhã, pisar o chão
Eu sei a barra de viver
Mas se Deus quiser
Tudo, tudo, tudo vai dar pé
(6X)
No, woman no cry
No, woman no cry
Não, não chore mais (menina não chore assim)
Não, não chore mais
No, woman no cry
No, woman no cry
Não, não chore mais (não chore assim)
Não, não chore mais...
Criar meu web site
Fazer minha home-page
Com quantos gigabytes
Se faz uma jangada
Um barco que veleje
Que veleje nesse infomar
Que aproveite a vazante da infomaré
Que leve um oriki do meu velho orixá
Ao porto de um disquete de um micro em Taipé
Um barco que veleje nesse infomar
Que aproveite a vazante da infomaré
Que leve meu e-mail até Calcutá
Depois de um hot-link
Num site de Helsinque
Para abastecer
Eu quero entrar na rede
Promover um debate
Juntar via Internet
Um grupo de tietes de Connecticut
De Connecticut acessar
O chefe da Macmilícia de Milão
Um hacker mafioso acaba de soltar
Um vírus pra atacar programas no Japão
Eu quero entrar na rede pra contactar
Os lares do Nepal, os bares do Gabão
Que o chefe da polícia carioca avisa pelo celular
Que lá na Praça Onze tem um videopôquer para se jogar
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love (2x)
From the very first time I blessed my eyes on you, girl
My heart says “follow through”
But I know now that I'm way down on your line
And the waiting feel is fine
So don't treat me like a puppet on a string
'Cause I know how to do my thing
Don't talk to me as if you think I'm dumb
I wanna know when you're gonna come?
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love (3x)
'Cause summer is here
I'm still waiting there
Winter is here
And I'm still waiting there
Like I said
It's been three years since I'm knocking on your door
And I still can knock some more
Ooh girl, ooh girl, is it feaseble?
I wanna know now
For I to knock some more
In life I know
There's lots of grief
But your love is my relief
Tears in my eyes burn
Tears in my eyes burn
While I'm waiting
While I'm waiting for my turn
I don't wanna wait in vain for your love...
Turn your lights down low
And pull your window curtains
Oh, let JAH moon come shining in
Into our life again
Sayin': ooh, it's been a long, long time
I kept this message for you, girl
But it seems I was never on time
Still I wanna get through to you, girl
On time, on time
I want to give you some love
I want to give you some good, good lovin'
Oh I, oh I , oh I
I want to give you some good, good lovin'
Turn your lights down low
Never, never try to resist, oh no!
Oh, let my love come tumbling in
Into our life again,
Sayin': ooh, I love you!
And I want you to know right now
I love you!
And I want you to know right now
'Cause I, that I, I want to give you some love
I want to give you some good, good lovin'
I want to give you some love
I want to give you some good, good lovin'
Turn your lights down low
Never, never try to resist, oh no!
Ooh, let my love come tumbling in
Into our life again
Turn your lights down low
So don't worry about a thing
'Cause ev'ry little thing is gonna be alright
So don't worry about a thing
Every little thing is gonna be alright
Rise up this morning
Smiled with the rising sun
Three little birds
Pitch by my door step
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true
Sayin': “This is my message to you”
Them belly full but we hungry
A hungry mob is an angry mob
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough
You're gonna dance to JAH music, dance
We're gonna dance to JAH music, dance
Forget your troubles and dance
Forget your sorrow and dance
Forget your sickness and dance
Forget your weakness and dance
Cost of living get so high
Rich and poor, they start a cry
Now the weak must get strong
They say, “What a tribulation”
Them belly full but we hungry
A hungry mob is an angry mob
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough
We're gonna chuck to JAH music, chuckin'
Chuckin' to JAH music, chuckin'
Cost of living get so high
Rich and poor, they start a cry
Now the weak must get strong
They say, “Oh, what a tribulation”
Cost of living get so high
Rich and poor, they start a cry
Now the weak must get strong
They say, “Oh, what a tribulation”
A belly full but them hungry
A hungry mob is an angry mob
A rain a-fall but the dirt it tough
A pot a-cook but the food no 'nough
We're gonna chuck to JAH music, chuckin'
Chuckin' to JAH music, we're chuckin' (3x)
JAH would never give power to a baldhead
Run come crucify the dread
Time alone, oh! time will tell
You think you're in heaven, but you're living in hell (3x)
Time alone, oh! time will tell
You think you're in heaven, but you're living in hell
Back them up, oh not the brothers
But the ones, who set them up
Time alone, oh! time will tell
You think you're in heaven, but you're living in hell (3x)
Time alone, oh! time will tell
You think you're in heaven, but you're living in hell
Oh children weep no more
Oh my sycamore tree, saw the freedom tree
Saw you settle the score
Oh children weep no more
Weep no more, children weep no more
JAH jamais permitirá que as mãos do terror
Venham sufocar o amor
Somente o tempo, o tempo só
Dirá se irei luz ou permanecerei pó
Se encontrarei Deus ou permanecerei só
Se ainda hei de abraçar minha vó
Somente o tempo, o tempo só
Time alone, oh! time will tell
Somente o tempo, o tempo só
Time alone, oh! time will tell
You think you're in heaven, but you're living in hell
Table tennis table
I and I
Play to show we are able
Not to die
Small and light white ball
Forth and forth
All is irie and irie is all
Love is worth
Don't think I'm trying to make another I
One is enough
I'm just expanding to overstand a cry
As well as a laugh
Don't think I'm lieing to fake another me
One is too much
I'm just extending the shores of my sea
Beyond any reach, beyond any touch
See, on the opposite side as if we look on a mirror
The other, the same
See, on the table tennis table I'm killing the killer
Is this me/we game
This me/we game
This me/we game
Oh! Me/we
Yes, me/we
The shortest poem in all poetry
Oh! Me/we
Yes, me/we
The poem Cassius Clay declamed
Like I and I
The same I and I
Identical to I and I
The pray that rastamen proclaimed
To say that we are never alone in this world
Me/we, I and I
To state that state of togetherness
The oness that means not to die
Table tennis table
Ping-pong, ping-pong, I and I
Play to show we are able
Not to die, not to die
Small and light white ball
Forth and forth and so forth
All is Irie, Irie is all
Love is worth, love is worth
I rebel music (2x)
Why can't we roam this open country?
Oh, why can't we be what we want to be?
We want to be free
3 o'clock roadblock - curfew
And I've got to throw away
Yes, I've got to throw away
A yes, but I've got to throw away
My little herb stalk!
I rebel music (2x)
Take my soul
And suss, suss me out
Check my life
If I am in doubt
3 o'clock roadblock, roadblock, roadblock
And hey, Mr. Cop! Ain't got no
Hey, hey, Mr. Cop
What ya sayin' down there?
Hey, hey, Mr. Cop
Ain't got no birth certificate on me now
I rebel music (2x)
Why can't we roam this open country?
Oh, why can't we be what we want to be?
We want to be free
I rebel music (2x)
Live if you want to live
Rastaman vibration, yeah! Positive!
That's what we got to give!
I'n'I vibration yeah! Positive!
Got to have a good vibe!
Iyaman Iration, yeah! Irie ites!
Positive vibration, yeah! Positive!
If you get down and you quarrel everyday,
You're saying prayers to the devils, I say
Why not help one another on the way?
Make it much easier
Just a little bit easier
Say, say you just can't live that negative way
If you know what I mean
Make way for the positive day
And if it's news, news and days
New time, and if it's a new feelin'
Said it's a new sign:
Oh, what a new day!
Pickin' up?
Are you pickin' up now?
JAH love, JAH love protect us; (3x)
Live if you want to live
Rastaman vibration, yeah! Positive!
That's what we got to give!
I'n'I vibration, yeah! Positive!
Got to have a good vibe!
Iyaman Iration, yeah! Irie ites!
Positive vibration, yeah! Positive!
Feel it in the one drop
And we'll still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
The generation gap
So feel this drum beat
As it beats within
Playing a rhythm resisting against the system
Ooh-we I know JAH'd never let us down
Pull your rights from wrong
I know JAH'd never let us down
Oh no! oh no! oh no!
They made the world so hard
Everyday we got to keep on fighting
They made the world so hard
Everyday people are dying
From hunger and starvation, lamentation
But read it in Revelation
You'll find your redemption
And then you give us the the teaching of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy
Give us the teaching of His Majesty
For we no want no devil philosophy
Feel it on the one drop
And we still find time to rap
We're making the one stop
And we fill in the gap
So fell this drum beat
As it beats within, playing a rhythm
Fighting against ism and skism
I know JAH'd never let us down
Pull your rights from wrong
I know JAH'd never let us down
Oh no! oh no! oh no!
Lick samba, lick samba, lick samba
Oh, oh lick samba.
Lick samba, lick samba, lick samba
Oh, oh lick samba.
Me say lick samba, lick samba.
Oh, oh lick samba.
Lick samba, lick samba, lick samba
Oh, oh lick samba.
Lick samba, lick samba, lick samba
Oh, oh lick samba.
I could not resist, oh now,
Another like this, oh now,
And though I know you'll hurt me again,
Oh, oh lick samba
I'll go on, I'll feel the pain,
Oh, oh lick samba
And it's not that I am weak,
Oh, oh lick samba
But it's that I'm on a peak
Oh, oh lick samba
Lick samba, lick samba, lick samba
Oh, oh lick samba
Me say, lick samba, lick samba, lick samba
Oh, oh lick samba
I bring it up a-lick it one time for me, sir
Oh, oh lick samba
I'll settle the little a claim, baby
Oh, oh lick samba
You can write it down in my name, baby
Oh, oh lick samba
Morning time, noon or night
Oh, oh lick samba
If it's morning time, I'm ready,
Oh, oh lick samba
And if it's late at night, I'm steady,
Oh, oh lick samba
Wake up and turn I loose (3x)
For the rain is falling
Got to have kaya now (3x)
For the rain is falling
I feel so high, I even touch the sky
Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighborhood
So here I come again
Got to have kaya now (3x)
For the rain is falling
Eu posso ver
O sol aparecer
Sobre a chuva que cai
Tão bom rever
A tribo, o fumacê
Do Cachimbo da Paz
(e muito mais)
Kaya já, na Gandaya (2x)
Kaya já, nem que a chuva Kaya
Na Gandaya, Kaya já (3x)
Nem que a chuva Kaya
Você que eleve-se alto ao céu
Com seus pés no chão
Leve-se alto ao céu
Que o reggae é o dono do salão
Leve-se alto ao céu
E não diga não
Você que eleve-se alto ao céu
Em afirmação
Que que cê faz então
Cê faz assim, faz assim
Como nunca fez enfim, oh sim
Cê que sobe assim, desce assim
Dança pra mim
Cê vem assim, vai assim, assim
Skanka assim, skanka assim
Skankaradamente
Você que eleve-se alto ao céu
Não diga não
Leve-se alto ao céu
Assim diz papa papaizão
Leve-se alto ao céu
Com seus pés no chão
Eleve-se alto ao céu
Que o reggae é o dono do salão
Sabe, gente
É tanta coisa pra gente saber
O que cantar, como andar, onde ir
O que dizer, o que calar, a quem querer
Sabe, gente
É tanta coisa, que eu fico sem jeito
Sou eu sozinho e esse nó no peito
Já desfeito em lágrimas que eu luto pra esconder
Sabe, gente
Eu sei que, no fundo, o problema é só da gente
É só do coração dizer não, quando a mente
Tenta nos levar pra casa do sofrer
E quando escutar um samba-canção
Assim como
"Eu Preciso Aprender a Ser Só"
Reagir
E ouvir
O coração responder:
"Eu preciso aprender a só ser"
[Repete tudo]
Sabe, gente
É tanta coisa que eu nem quero saber
Easy skanking, easy skanking (2x)
Excuse me while I light my spliff
Good God I gotta take a lift
From reality I just can't drift
That's why I am staying with this riff
Take it easy, easy skanking
Got to take it easy, easy skanking
Take it easy, easy skanking
Brother, take easy, easy skanking
We're taking it easy
We taking it slow,
Taking it easy, taking it slow
Take it easy, easy skanking
Got to take it easy, easy skanking
Take it easy, easy skanking
Skanking take it easy
Excuse me while I light my spliff
Oh God I gotta take a lift
From reality I just can't drift
That's why I am staying with this riff
Take it easy, taking it easy
Got to take it easy, taking it slow
Take it easy, taking it easy
Skanking take it easy, taking it slow
Some herb for my wine
Some honey for my strong drink
Herb for my wine, honey for my strong drink
Take it easy, taking it easy
Got to take it easy, skanking it slow
Take it easy, taking it easy
Brother, take it easy, skanking it slow
Could you be loved and be loved (2x)
Don't let them fool you
Or even try to school you, Oh! no
We've got a mind of our own
So go to hell if what you're thinkin' isn't right
Love would never leave us alone
In the darkness there must come out to light
Could you be loved and be loved (2x)
The road of life is rocky
And you may stumble too
So while you point your fingers
Someone else is judgin' you
Could you be, could you be, could you be loved
Could you be, could you be loved
Could you be, could you be, could you be loved
Could you be, could you be loved
Don't let them change you
Or even rearrange you, Oh! no
We've got a life to live
They say only
Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive
Stay alive
Could you be loved and be loved (2x)
You ain't gonna miss your water
Until your well runs dry
No matter how you treat him
The man will never be satisfied
Could you be, could you be, could you be loved
Could you be, could you be loved
Could you be, could you be, could you be loved
Could you be, could you be loved
Say something, say something...
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta
There was a Buffalo Soldier
In the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
I mean it, when I analyse the stench
To me, it makes a lot of sense
How the Dreadlock Rasta was the Buffalo Soldier
And he was taken from Africa, brought to America
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta
Buffalo Soldier, in the heart of America
If you know your history
Then you would know where you coming from
Then you wouldn't have to ask me
Who the heck do I think I am
I'm just a Buffalo Soldier
In the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Said he was fighting on arrival
Fighting for survival
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier
Win the war for America
Buffalo Soldier, trodding through the land
Said he wanna ran, then you wanna hand
Trodding through the land, yea, yea
Buffalo Soldier
Win the war for America
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Driven from the mainland
To the heart of the caribbean
Trodding through San Juan
In the arms of America
Trodding through Jamaica, a Buffalo Soldier
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival
Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta
Olha, lá vai passando a procissão
Se arrastando que nem cobra pelo chão
As pessoas que nela vão passando
Acreditam nas coisas lá do céu
As mulheres cantando, tiram versos
Os homens escutando, tiram o chapéu
Eles vivem penando aqui na terra
Esperando o que Jesus prometeu
E Jesus prometeu vida melhor
Pra quem vive nesse mundo sem amor
Só depois de entregar o corpo ao chão
Só depois de morrer neste sertão
Eu também tô do lado de Jesus
Só que acho que ele se esqueceu
De dizer que na terra a gente tem
De arranjar um jeitinho pra viver
Muita gente se arvora a ser Deus
E promete tanta coisa pro sertão
Que vai dar um vestido pra Maria
E promete um roçado pro João
Entra ano, sai ano, e nada vem
Meu sertão continua ao deus-dará
Mas se existe Jesus no firmamento
Cá na terra isto tem que se acabar
Pega a voga, cabeludo
Que eu não sou cascudo
Tenho muito estudo
Pra fazer minha embolada
Cá na batucada, não me falta nada
Eu tenho tudo
Tenho uma tinta
Que no dia que não pinta, fica feia
Tenho uma barca
Que no dia de fuzarca, fica cheia
E a mulata que tem ouro
Que tem prata, que tem tudo
É quem grita: "Pega a voga!
Pega a voga, cabeludo!"
NOTA: Adaptação do folclore amazonense
O pé da roseira murchou
E as flores caíram no chão
Quando ela chorava, eu dizia:
"Tá certo, Maria
Você tem razão"
Quando ela chorava, eu dizia:
"Tá certo, Maria
Você tem razão"
Maria chorava, eu fugia
Sem ter nada mais pra dizer
O amor terminado, e Maria
Me via partindo, sem saber por quê
Me via partindo e chorava
Me amava e não podia crer
Que o mundo afinal me levava
E nada lhe dava o jeito de entender
Eu também não compreendia
Por que terminava um amor
Nem mesmo se o amor terminava
Só sei que eu andava
E não sentia dor
Me lembro na porta da casa
Lá dentro Maria chorava
Depois, caminhando sozinho
Lembrei da ciranda que meu pai cantava
Depois, caminhando sozinho
Lembrei da ciranda que meu pai cantava
O pé da roseira murchou
E as flores caíram no chão
Quando ela chorava, eu dizia:
"Tá certo, Maria
Você tem razão"
Quando ela chorava, eu dizia:
"Tá certo, Maria
Você tem razão"
Eu, brasileiro, confesso
Minha culpa, meu pecado
Meu sonho desesperado
Meu bem guardado segredo
Minha aflição
Eu, brasileiro, confesso
Minha culpa, meu degredo
Pão seco de cada dia
Tropical melancolia
Negra solidão
Aqui é o fim do mundo
Aqui é o fim do mundo
Aqui é o fim do mundo
Aqui, o Terceiro Mundo
Pede a bênção e vai dormir
Entre cascatas, palmeiras
Araçás e bananeiras
Ao canto da juriti
Aqui, meu pânico e glória
Aqui, meu laço e cadeia
Conheço bem minha história
Começa na lua cheia
E termina antes do fim
Aqui é o fim do mundo
Aqui é o fim do mundo
Aqui é o fim do mundo
Minha terra tem palmeiras
Onde sopra o vento forte
Da fome, do medo e muito
Principalmente da morte
Olelê, lalá
A bomba explode lá fora
E agora, o que vou temer?
Oh, yes, nós temos banana
Até pra dar e vender
Olelê, lalá
Aqui é o fim do mundo
Aqui é o fim do mundo
Aqui é o fim do mundo
Passei toda a tarde ensaiando, ensaiando
Essa vontade de ser ator acaba me matando
São quase oito horas da noite
E eu nesse táxi
Que trânsito horrível, meu Deus
E Luzia, e Luzia, e Luzia
Estou tão cansado, mas disse que ia
Luzia Luluza está lá me esperando
Mais duas entradas, uma inteira, uma meia
São quase oito horas, a sala está cheia
Essa sessão das oito vai ficar lotada
Terceira semana em cartaz James Bond
Melhor pra Luzia, não fica parada
Quando não vem gente, ela fica abandonada
Naquela cabine do Cine Avenida
Revistas, bordados, um rádio de pilha
Na cela da morte do Cine Avenida, a me esperar
No próximo ano nós vamos casar
No próximo filme nós vamos casar
Luzia, Luluza, eu vou ficar famoso
Vou fazer um filme de ator principal
No filme eu me caso com você, Luluza
No carnaval
Eu desço do táxi, feliz, mascarado
Você me esperando na bilheteria
Sua fantasia é de papel crepom
Eu pego você pelas mãos como um raio
E saio com você, descendo a avenida
A avenida é comprida, é comprida, é comprida...
E termina na areia
Na beira do mar
E a gente se casa
Na areia, Luluza
Na beira do mar
Na beira do mar
Foi quando topei com você
Que a coisa virou confusão
No salão
Porque parei, procurei
Não encontrei
Nem mais um sinal de emoção
Em seu olhar
Aí eu me desesperei
E a coisa virou confusão
No salão
Porque lembrei
Do seu sorriso aberto
Que era tão perto, que era tão perto
Em um carnaval que passou
Porque lembrei
Que esse frevo rasgado
Foi naquele tempo passado
O frevo que você gostou
E dançou e pulou
Foi quando topei com você
Que a coisa virou confusão
No salão
Porque parei, procurei
Não encontrei
Nem mais um sinal de emoção
Em seu olhar
A coisa virou confusão
Sem briga, sem nada demais
No salão
Porque a bagunça que eu fiz, machucado
Bagunça que eu fiz tão calado
Foi dentro do meu coração
Porque a bagunça que eu fiz, machucado
Bagunça que eu fiz tão calado
Foi dentro do meu coração
Alaiá, alaiá, alaiaialeluia
Alaiá, alaiá, alaiaialeluia
Ele falava nisso todo dia
Ele falava nisso todo dia
A herança, a segurança, a garantia
Pra mulher, para a filhinha, pra família
Falava nisso todo dia
Ele falava nisso todo dia
Ele falava nisso todo dia
O seguro da família, o futuro da família
O seguro, o futuro
Falava nisso todo dia
Alaiá, alaiá, alaiaialeluia
Alaiá, alaiá, alaiaialeluia
Ele falava nisso todo dia
A incerteza, a pobreza, a má sorte
Quem sabe lá o que aconteceria?
A mulher, a filhinha, a família desamparada
Retrata a carreira frustrada de um homem de bem
Ele falava nisso todo dia
O seguro de vida, o pecúlio
Era preciso toda a garantia
Se a mulher chora o corpo do marido
O seguro de vida, o pecúlio
Darão a certeza do dever cumprido
Alaiá, alaiá, alaiaialeluia
Alaiá, alaiá, alaiaialeluia
Ele falava nisso todo dia
Ele falava nisso todo dia
Se morresse ainda forte
Um bom seguro era uma sorte pra família
A loteria
Falava nisso todo dia
Era um rapaz de vinte e cinco anos
Era um rapaz de vinte e cinco anos
Hoje ele morreu atropelado
Em frente à companhia de seguro
Oh! que futuro!
Oh! Rapaz de vinte e cinco anos
Alaiá, alaiá, alaiaialeluia
Alaiá, alaiá, alaiaialeluia
Da janela, a cidade se ilumina
Como nunca jamais se iluminou
São três horas da tarde, é domingo
Na cidade, no Cristo Redentor - ê, ê
É domingo no trolley que passa - ê, ê
É domingo na moça e na praça - ê, ê
É domingo, ê, ê, domingou, meu amor
Hoje é dia de feira, é domingo
Quanto custa hoje em dia o feijão?
São três horas da tarde, é domingo
Em Ipanema e no meu coração - ê, ê
É domingo no Vietnã - ê, ê
Na Austrália, em Itapuã - ê, ê
É domingo, ê, ê, domingou, meu amor
Quem tiver coração mais aflito
Quem quiser encontrar seu amor
Dê uma volta na praça do Lido
O-skindô, o-skindô, o-skindô-lelê
Quem quiser procurar residência
Quem está noivo e já pensa em casar
Pode olhar o jornal, paciência
Tra-lá-lá, tra-lá-lá, ê, ê
O jornal de manhã chega cedo
Mas não traz o que eu quero saber
As notícias que leio conheço
Já sabia antes mesmo de ler - ê, ê
Qual o filme que você quer ver - ê, ê
Que saudade, preciso esquecer - ê, ê
É domingo, ê, ê, domingou, meu amor
Olha a rua, meu bem, meu benzinho
Tanta gente que vai e que vem
São três horas da tarde, é domingo
Vamos dar um passeio também - ê, ê
O bondinho viaja tão lento - ê, ê
Olha o tempo passando, olha o tempo - ê, ê
É domingo, outra vez domingou, meu amor
O rei da brincadeira (ê, José)
O rei da confusão (ê, João)
Um trabalhava na feira (ê, José)
Outro na construção (ê, João)
A semana passada, no fim da semana
João resolveu não brigar
No domingo de tarde saiu apressado
E não foi pra Ribeira jogar capoeira
Não, foi lá pra Ribeira, foi namorar
O José como sempre no fim de semana
Guardou a barraca e sumiu
Foi fazer no domingo um passeio no parque
Lá perto da Boca do Rio
Foi no parque que ele avistou
Juliana foi que ele viu, foi que ele viu
Juliana na roda com João
Uma rosa e um sorvete na mão
Juliana, seu sonho, uma ilusão
Juliana e o amigo João
O espinho da rosa feriu Zé
E o sorvete gelou seu coração
O sorvete e a rosa (ô, José)
O rosa e o sorvete (ô, José)
Foi coçando no peito (ô, José)
Do José brincalhão (ô, José)
O sorvete e a rosa (ô, José)
A rosa e o sorvete (ô, José)
Oi, girando na mente (ô, José)
Do José brincalhão (ô, José)
Juliana girando (ô, girando)
Oi, na roda gigante (ô, girando)
Oi, na roda gigante (ô, girando)
O amigo João (ô, João)
O sorvete é morango (é vermelho)
Oi, girando e a roda (é vermelha)
Oi, girando, girando (é vermelha)
Oi, girando, girando...
Olha a faca! (Olha a faca!)
Olha o sangue na mão (ê, José)
Juliana no chão (ê, José)
Outro corpo caído (ê, José)
Seu amigo João (ê, José)
Amanhã não tem feira (ê, José)
Não tem mais construção (ê, João)
Não tem mais brincadeira (ê, José)
Não tem mais confusão (ê, João)
Lá no sertão, quem tem
Coragem pra suportar
Tem que viver pra ter
Coragem pra suportar
E somente plantar
Coragem pra suportar
E somente colher
Coragem pra suportar
E mesmo quem não tem
Coragem pra suportar
Tem que arranjar também
Coragem pra suportar
Ou então
Vai embora
Vai pra longe
E deixa tudo
Tudo que é nada
Nada pra viver
Nada pra dar
Coragem pra suportar
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Fé na Festa
- Dança da Moda
- Assim, Sim
- Óia Eu Aqui de Novo
- Respeita Januário / O Xote das Meninas / Eu Só Quero Um Xodó
- Lamento Sertanejo (Forró do Dominguinhos)
- Um Riacho, Um Caminho
- Juazeiro
- Estrela Azul do Céu
- Aprendi Com o Rei
- O Livre-Atirador e a Pegadora
- Qui Nem Jiló / Expresso 2222
- O Casamento da Raposa
- Olha Pro Céu
- Esperando na Janela
- Fé na Festa
- O Livre-Atirador e a Pegadora
- Assim, Sim
- Estrela Azul do Céu
- Marmundo
- Vinte e Seis
- Não Tenho Medo da Vida
- Norte da Saudade
- Maria Minha
- Aprendi Com o Rei
- Dança da Moda
- São João Carioca
- Lá Vem Ela
- Esotérico
- A linha e o linho
- Superhomem, a canção
- Saudade da Bahia
- Chiclete com banana
- Das duas, uma
- Quatro coisas
- Amor até o fim
- Lamento sertanejo
- O rouxinol
- Refazenda
- Banda um
- La renaissance africaine
- Refavela
- Babá alapalá
- Expresso 2222
- Pipoca moderna (feat. Banda de Pífaros de Caruaru)
- Back In Bahia
- O canto da ema
- Chiclete com banana
- Ele e eu
- Sai do sereno
- Expresso 2222
- O sonho acabou
- Oriente
- Cada macaco no seu galho (feat. Caetano Veloso)
- Vamos passear no astral
- Está na cara, está na cura
- Despedida de solteira
- Os pais
- Não grude não
- Formosa
- Samba de Los Angeles
- La Renaissance Africaine
- Olho mágico
- Não tenho medo da morte
- Amor de carnaval
- Gueixa no tatame
- A faca e o queijo
- Outros viram
- Canô
- Máquina de ritmo
- Banda larga cordel
- O oco do mundo
- Preciso aprender a só ser
- Aqui e agora
- Copo vazio
- Retiros espirituais
- O seu amor
- Tempo rei
- O som da pessoa
- Cérebro eletrônico
- A raça humana
- Você e você
- Superhomem - A canção
- Rebento
- Metáfora
- Meditação
- O compositor me disse
- Roda
- A rua
- Procissão - com os mutantes
- Mamma
- Chiclete com banana
- Conto da ema
- Batmakumba
- Cérebro eletrônico
- Vitrines
- Refazenda
- Aqui e agora
- Eu só quero um xodó
- Maracatu atômico
- Queremos saber
- Nega (Photograph Blues)
- Can't Find My Way Home
- The Three Mushrooms
- Babylon
- Volkswagen Blues
- Mamma
- One O'Clock Last Morning, 20th April 1970
- Crazy Pop Rock
- Can't Find My Way Home (live)
- Up From the Skies (live)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (live)
- Realce
- O Eterno Deus Mu Dança
- Toda Menina Baiana
- Um Trem Para As Estrelas
- Céu Da Boca
- Se Eu Quiser Falar Com Deus
- Three Little Birds
- Kaya N'Gan Daya
- Could You Be Loved
- Esperando Na Janela
- Extra
- Punk Da Periferia
- Soy Loco Por Ti, America
- Aquele Abraço
- Vamos Fugir (Give Me Your Love)
- Esperando na janela
- Não Chores Mais (No, Woman, No Cry)
- Flora
- Super Homem (A Canção)
- Índigo Blue
- Palco
- Realce
- Punk da periferia
- Pessoa Nefasta
- Andar com fé
- Refazenda
- Drão
- Se eu quiser falar com Deus
- A Rita
- A novidade
- Domingo no parque
- Aquele abraço
- Sarará
- Goodbye My Girl
- Ella
- Here and Now
- Balafon
- Alapalá
- Maracatu atômico
- Move Along With Me
- Nightingale
- Samba de Los Angeles
- Deixar você
- Eu so quero um xodo
- Super-homem (A cançao)
- Desde que o samba é samba
- Preciso aprender a so ser
- Logar comum (ao vivo)
- Esses moços
- Copo vazio
- A bruxar de mentira
- Beira mar
- Lamento sertanejo (ao vivo)
- Vitrines
- Sim, foi você
- O seu amor
- Miserere Nóbis
- Maracatu Atômico
- Nega (Photograph Blues)
- Frevo Rasgado
- Domingou
- Expresso 2222
- Geleia Geral
- Três Caravelas (Las Tres Carabelas)
- Bat Macumba
- Lunik 9
- Ele Falava Nisso Todo Dia
- Roda
- Procissão
- Louvação
- Chiclete Com Banana
- Black in Bahia
- Volks, Volkswagen Blues
- Chuckberry Fields Forever
- Aquele Abraço
- Domingo No Parque
- Can't Find My Way Home
- Luzia Luluza
- Refavela
- Andar com fé
- Chuck Berry Fields Forever
- Cambalache
- Imagine
- A Rita
- Alinha e o linho
- Aquele abraço
- Maracatu Atômico
- Se eu quiser falar com deus
- La Lune de Gorée
- Three Little Birds
- Guerra santa
- Soy Loco Por Ti America
- Quilombo, o Eldorado Negro
- Ganga Zumba (O Poder da Buginganga)
- Chegada dos Palmares (Instrumental)
- Despedida de Giangia
- Aluja do Rei Xangô (Instrumental)
- Zumbi ( A Felicidade Guerreira)
- Dandara, a Flor de Gravatá
- Festa do Cometa
- Saída para a Guerra (Instrumental)
- Tambores Esquentam (Instrumental)
- Namba, a Gangamorada
- Fuga no Canavial
- Oriente
- Cérebro Eletrônico
- Geléia Geral
- Expresso 2222
- Raça Humana
- Eleve-se alto ao céu (Lively up yourself)
- Não chore mais (No woman, no cry)
- Kaya N’gan Daya
- Rebel Music (3 O’Clock Road Block)
- Vamos fugir
- Them Bellyfull (But We Hungry)
- A novidade
- Waiting in Vain
- Three Little Birds
- Garota de Ipanema
- Extra
- Nos barracos da cidade
- Is This Love
- Could You Be Loved
- Alagados
- Sítio do Pica-Pau-Amarelo
- Esperando na janela
- Refavela
- Ilê ayê
- Aqui e agora
- No norte da saudade
- Babá alapalá
- Sandra
- Samba do avião
- Era nova
- Balafon
- Patuscada de Gandhi
- Sítio do Pica-Pau-Amarelo
- A Gaivota
- Aquele abraço
- Vida
- Mamma
- Soy loco por ti, América
- Babá ala palá
- Jubiabá
- Mar de Copacabana
- Mardi 10 Mars
- Quarto Mundo
- Lindinalva
- Samba de Roda (instrumental - versão 1)
- Samba de Roda (instrumental - versão 2)
- Músicas Incidentais
- Expresso 2222
- Oriente
- Copo Vazio
- Louvação
- Preciso Aprender a Só Ser
- Lugar-Comum
- Cada Macaco No Seu Galho
- Desde Que o Samba é Samba
- Filhos de Gandhi
- Lamento Sertanejo
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Eu Só Quero um Xodó
- Procissão
- Haiti
- Toda menina baiana
- Palco
- Aquele abraço
- Expresso 2222
- Pela internet
- Realce
- Guerra santa
- Sala de som
- Tradição
- Sonho molhado
- Ela
- Pílula de alho
- Sarará miolo
- Óia eu aqui de novo
- Refazenda
- Ciência e arte
- Mar de Copacabana
- Rebento
- Viramundo (Ao Vivo)
- Eu Só Quero Um Xodó
- Chiclete Com Banana
- Procissão
- Gaivota (Ao Vivo)
- O Canto da Ema
- Imbalança
- Tradição
- 17 Légua E Meia
- Expresso 2222
- Cada Macaco No Seu Galho
- Domingo No Parque
- Lamento Sertanejo (Ao Vivo)
- Aquele Abraço
- Sebastian
- Duas sanfonas
- Ponta de areia
- Bom dia
- Trovoada
- Something
- Maria
- Lar hospitalar
- Yo vengo a ofrecer mi corazón
- Dora
- Xica da Silva
- Canção do sal
- Dinamarca
- Palco (vinheta)
- Baião da garoa
- Domingo no parque
- Haiti
- Maracatu atômico
- Procissão
- Back in Bahia
- Eu só quero um xodó
- Oriente
- Quando
- Carta à mãe
- Chiclete com banana
- Lugar comum
- Nossa gente (avisa lá)
- Preciso aprender a ser só
- Lunik 9
- Esses moços
- Roda
- Louvação
- Expresso 2222
- Aquele abraço
- Desde que o samba é samba
- Sala do som
- Realce
- Tradição
- Refazenda
- Baião atemporal
- Pílula de alho
- Aquele abraço
- Ciência e arte
- Ela
- Expresso 2222
- Sonho molhado
- Pela internet
- Toda menina baiana
- Sarara miolo
- Rebento
- Mar de Copacabana
- Guerra santa
- Quanta
- Ciência e arte
- Estrela
- Dança de Shiva
- Vendedor de caranguejo
- Chiquinho Azevedo
- Pílula de alho
- Opachorô
- Graça divina
- Pela internet
- Guerra santa
- Átimo de pó
- Fogo líquido
- Pop Wu Wei
- O lugar do nosso amor
- De ouro e marfim
- Sala do som
- Um abraça no João
- O mar e o lago
- La Lune de Gorée
- Toda Menina Baiana
- Esoterico
- Sahara Miolo
- Balafon
- Ela
- Tradicao
- Nao Chore Mais
- Refazenda
- Expresso
- Flora
- Sonho Molhado
- Baiao Atemporal
- A Paz
- Haiti
- Cinema novo
- Nossa gente
- Rap popcreto
- Wait Until Tomorrow
- Tradição
- As coisas
- Aboio
- Dada
- Cada macaco no seu galho
- Baião atemporal
- Desde que o samba é samba
- Aquele abraço
- Pipoca moderna (feat. Banda de Pífanos de Caruaru)
- Louvação
- Roda
- Expresso 2222
- Eu só quero um xodó
- Maracatu atômico
- Chiclete com banana
- Back in Bahia
- Preciso aprender a ser só
- Procissão
- Esses moços (pobres moços)
- Domingo no parque
- Ele falava nisso todo dia
- Eu Vim Da Bahia
- Procissâo
- Domingo No Parque
- Soy Loco Por Ti, Amêrica
- Mamma
- Mar de Copacabana
- I Just Called to Say I Love You (Só Chamei Porque Te Amo)
- Filhos Gandhi
- Palco
- Aquarela do Brasil
- Cordeiro de nanâ
- Bahia com H
- No tabuleiro da baiana
- Milagre
- Disse alguém (All Of Me)
- O Sonho Acabou
- Miserere Nobis
- Ladeira Da Preguiça - Com Elis Regina
- Marginália II
- Meio De Campo
- Pega A Voga, Cabeludo
- Esses Moços (Pobres Moços)
- Nega (Photograph Blues)
- Volks, Volkswagen Blue
- Cérebro Eletrônico
- Ensaio Geral
- Vitrines
- Viramundo
- Crazy Pop Rock
- O Canto Da Ema
- Mar de Copacabana - 1
- Palco
- Cores viva
- Axe baba
- Flora
- Sarara miolo
- Marina
- Rebento
- Toda menina baiana
- E la poeira
- Indigo Blue
- Febril
- Duas luas
- Vida
- Mar de Copacabana - 2
- O Eterno Deus Mu Danca
- Mulher de coronel
- De Bob Dylan a Bob Marley um Samba Provocacao
- Cada Tempo em Seu Lugar
- Baticum
- Do Japao
- Mon Tiers Monde
- Amarra O Teu Arado A uma Estrela
- Requiem Pra Mae Menininha do Gantois
- Toda Saudade
- Pra fazer o sol nascer
- Copacabana funk
- Pagode da Santinha
- Camila
- Milagre na favela
- A santa na cruz
- Um trem para as estrelas
- A existência do sol
- Romace do cabo com a santa
- Agonia de Drime
- Morte de Drime
- Noite de amor
- Fox no mercado
- Abertura / Realce
- Nos barracos da cidade
- Vamos fugir
- Aquele abraço
- Oriente
- Flora
- Sabará miolo
- Banda um
- Touché pas a mon pote
- Toda menina baiana
- Não chore mais (No Woman No Cry)
- Nos barracos da cidade (Barracos)
- Roque santeiro, o rock
- Seu olhar
- Febril
- "Touches pas à mon pote"
- Logos versus logo
- Oração pela libertação da África do Sul
- Clichê do clichê
- Casinha feliz
- Duas luas
- Banda Um
- Afoxé é
- Metáfora
- Deixar você
- Pula, caminha
- Andar com fé
- Drão
- Esotérico
- Menina do sonho
- Ê menina
- Nossa
- Realce
- Sarará miolo
- Superhomem: A canção
- Tradição
- Marina
- Rebento
- Toda menina baiana
- Logunedé
- Não chore mais (No Woman, No Cry)
- Acertei No Milhar
- Falso Rebolado
- Escurinho
- Minha Pretinha
- Senhor Delegado
- Minha Nega Na Janela
- Não Volto Pra Casa
- A Situação Do Escurinho
- Rua
- Samba Rubro-Negro
- Chuck Berry Fields Forever
- Chororô
- Sao João, Xangô menino
- Respeita Januário
- Ela
- Bat macumba / Exaltação à Mangueira
- Procissão / Atrás do trio elétrico / Mamãe eu quero
- Triole (Jam Session) (feat. A Cor do Som / Ivinho / Patrick Moraz)
- Ninguém Segura Este País
- Satisfação
- Sentimentos
- Ha, ha, ha
- Tiu, ru, ru
- A Bruxa de Mentira
- Chuckberry Fields Forever
- Sarará Miolo
- É
- Músico Simples
- Sala do Som
- Brazil Very Happy Band
- Tipo África
- Ojú Obá
- Ela
- Tenho sede
- Refazenda
- Pai e mãe
- Jeca total
- Essa é pra tocar no rádio
- Ê, povo, ê
- Retiros espirituais
- O rouxinol
- Lamento sertanejo (forró do Dominguinhos)
- Meditação
- Meio De Campo
- Eu só Quero um Xodó
- Edyth Cooper
- Umeboshi
- Essa é Pra Tocar no Rádio
- Tradição
- Minha Nega na Janela
- Ó, Maria
- A Última Valsa
- Ladeira da Preguiça
- Rainha do Mar
- Iansã
- Doente, Morena
- Cidade do Salvador
- Imbalança
- Duplo Sentido
- Eu Preciso Aprender a Só Ser
- Maracatu Atômico (Take 1)
- Maracatu Atômico
- Todo Dia é Dia D
- Esses Moços
- Meditação
- Pocalipi (Versão 1)
- Pocalipi (Versão 2)
- Quem Nasceu
- De Noite na Cama
- O Conteúdo
- Terramoto
- O Relógio Quebrou
- O Sonho Acabou
- Cantiga do Sapo
- Acontece
- Felicidade (Felicidade Foi Embora)
- Cinema Olympia
- Frevo Rasgado
- Superbacana
- Madalena
- Atrás Do Trio Elétrico
- Domingo No Parque
- Alegria, Alegria - Hino Do Esporte Clube Bahia - Aquele Abraço
- Cérebro eletrônico
- Volks-Volksvagen Blue
- Aquele abraço
- 17 léguas e meia
- A voz do vivo
- Vitrines
- 2001
- Futurível
- Objeto semi-identificado
- Soy Loco Por Ti America
- Babá Alapalá
- Mardi 10 Mars
- Aquele Abraço
- Mar de Copacabana
- Mamma
- Jubiabá
- Vida
- Mar de Copacabana
- Palco
- Cores viva
- Axé babá
- Flora
- Sarará miolo
- Marina
- Rebento
- Toda menina baiana
- E lá poeira
- Indigo Blue
- Febril
- Duas luas
- Vida
- Mar de Copacabana (2e version)
- Tradição
- Não chore mais (No Woman, No Cry)
- Ela poeira
- Mar de Copacabana
- Quilombo, o Eldorado negro
- Duas luas
- Vamos fugir
- Mico preto
- Aquele abraço
- A novidade
- Refazenda
- Fogo líquido
- Um abraço no João
- Dança de Shiva
- Guerra santa
- Lick Samba
- Treze de dezembro
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Tempo só (Time will tell)
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
música: Bob Marley versão: Gilberto Gil
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música: Bob Marley versão: Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil Toda menina Bahiana
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- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
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Tarde em Itapoa - Toquinho e Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
Toquinho e Gilberto Gil. O Gil fica de cara com o improviso do Toquinho. O cara toca mto!!
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Toquinho e Gilberto Gil. O Gil fica de cara com o improviso do Toquinho. O cara toca mto!!
- published: 20 Jun 2006
- views: 226489
- author: Eduardo Feres
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MIMA presents "Esoterico" by Gilberto Gil (2011)
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- Duration: 5:29
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Brazilian singer-songwriter and former Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil serenades a full house at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium for MIMA's first international MIMA Conference.
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Brazilian singer-songwriter and former Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil serenades a full house at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium for MIMA's first international MIMA Conference.
- published: 23 Mar 2011
- views: 2038
- author: MIMAMusicInc
Gilberto Gil - Jazz à Vienne 2011 (Official)
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- Duration: 11:07
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Produced by : Zycopolis Productions - Act 4 Productions - France Televisions Directed by : Patrick Savey www.zycopolis.com www.facebook.com/zycopolis www.myspace.com/zycopolisproductions www.twitter.com/zycopolis www.vimeo.com/zycopolis www.dailymotion.com/zycopolis
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Produced by : Zycopolis Productions - Act 4 Productions - France Televisions Directed by : Patrick Savey www.zycopolis.com www.facebook.com/zycopolis www.myspace.com/zycopolisproductions www.twitter.com/zycopolis www.vimeo.com/zycopolis www.dailymotion.com/zycopolis
- published: 19 Jan 2012
- views: 13668
- author: Zycopolis
no woman no cry (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
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- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 08 Nov 2012
porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005
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porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005
- published: 17 Aug 2006
- views: 185327
- author: lampadarios
Gilberto Gil Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1978)
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- Duration: 72:22
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
With Pepeu Gomes, Jorge Gomes, Rubens Silva, Maurício Carvalho and Djalma Correa.
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With Pepeu Gomes, Jorge Gomes, Rubens Silva, Maurício Carvalho and Djalma Correa.
- published: 25 Sep 2012
- views: 4490
- author: AND3R50N5ARC1A
three little birds (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
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- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005
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porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005
- published: 17 Aug 2006
- views: 66056
- author: lampadarios
Gilberto Gil - Expresso 2222 (forro version, live London 2010)
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- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 08 Mar 2012
Festival Brazil, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London - UK. July 21st, 2010. Some people asked me about this song, here is, it was amazing! especially what he said: This song was written here in London in 1971, when I was in holidays, lol! it was a hard time in Brazil and then they kicked me out...
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Festival Brazil, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London - UK. July 21st, 2010. Some people asked me about this song, here is, it was amazing! especially what he said: This song was written here in London in 1971, when I was in holidays, lol! it was a hard time in Brazil and then they kicked me out...
- published: 22 Aug 2010
- views: 1881
- author: yoambulante
imagine (lennon) feat. gilberto gil live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:25
- Updated: 09 Nov 2012
porto alegre jan, 26, 2005 world social forum
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porto alegre jan, 26, 2005 world social forum
- published: 17 Aug 2006
- views: 88622
- author: lampadarios
Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben - Taj Mahal, 1975
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
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Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - live
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- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - live. Rare live recording singing one of his most popular tunes from the 80s.
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Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - live. Rare live recording singing one of his most popular tunes from the 80s.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 12427
- author: neofunkyman1
could you be loved (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:23
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
porto alegre, br jan, 26th 2005 foro social mundial
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porto alegre, br jan, 26th 2005 foro social mundial
- published: 20 Mar 2006
- views: 105810
- author: lampadarios
Ala Pala
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Tv Cultura 40 amos
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Gilberto Gil Can't Find My Way Home (Live)
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- Duration: 6:40
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
Gilberto Gil Album: Gilberto Gil (1971) Song: Can't Find My Way Home (Live, Bonus Track)
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Gilberto Gil Album: Gilberto Gil (1971) Song: Can't Find My Way Home (Live, Bonus Track)
- published: 25 Aug 2010
- views: 6638
- author: Svanelicorne
Gilberto Gil - No Woman, No Cry (Live) (Portuguese/English subtitles)
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- Duration: 5:10
- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Gilberto Gil - Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) (C) Gilberto Gil, 1980. Subtitled for self-training purposes, no infringement intended.
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Gilberto Gil - Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) (C) Gilberto Gil, 1980. Subtitled for self-training purposes, no infringement intended.
- published: 03 Jul 2012
- views: 385
- author: Eduardo Zárate
Gilberto Gil & The Broad Band Toronto Canada June 27, 2008
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- Duration: 7:57
- Updated: 08 Apr 2012
Gilberto Gil LIVE at Massey Hall Toronto Canada June 27, 2008
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Gilberto Gil LIVE at Massey Hall Toronto Canada June 27, 2008
- published: 28 Jun 2008
- views: 1940
- author: kanadiankorner
Gilberto Gil Live (concertgebouw amsterdam)
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- Duration: 0:46
- Updated: 25 Jan 2012
gilberto gil
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Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - rare live
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- Duration: 1:10
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
www.neofunkyman.ws Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - rare live
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- published: 11 Jul 2009
- views: 16628
- author: neofunkyman1
Gilberto Gil fala de FUNK Part 1_Favela on Blast (extras)
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- Duration: 6:17
- Updated: 11 Aug 2012
More info at: favelaonblastfilm@gmail.com twitter.com Also check: www.facebook.com www.leandrohbl.com www.maddecent.com Gilberto Gil talks technology inside the slums using 'Favela on Blast' film as an exemple. This video was transmitted as a live TV Show from Rio to Barcelona using for the first time intercontinental fiber channel internet connection (also called internet 2) during ARTFUTURA digital art festival, Spain 2007. Concept: LeandroHBL & Hermano Vianna Director: Leandro HBL Production director: Amiten Cinematiography: Leandro HBL Live editor: Breno Fortes Live Performance: Sany Pittbull
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More info at: favelaonblastfilm@gmail.com twitter.com Also check: www.facebook.com www.leandrohbl.com www.maddecent.com Gilberto Gil talks technology inside the slums using 'Favela on Blast' film as an exemple. This video was transmitted as a live TV Show from Rio to Barcelona using for the first time intercontinental fiber channel internet connection (also called internet 2) during ARTFUTURA digital art festival, Spain 2007. Concept: LeandroHBL & Hermano Vianna Director: Leandro HBL Production director: Amiten Cinematiography: Leandro HBL Live editor: Breno Fortes Live Performance: Sany Pittbull
- published: 07 Nov 2007
- views: 7695
- author: Leandro HBL
Gilberto Gil fala de FUNK Part 2_Favela on Blast (extras)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:32
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
More info at: favelaonblastfilm@gmail.com twitter.com Also check: www.facebook.com www.leandrohbl.com www.maddecent.com Gilberto Gil talks technology inside the slums using 'Favela on Blast' film as an exemple. This video was transmitted as a live TV Show from Rio to Barcelona using for the first time intercontinental fiber channel internet connection (also called internet 2) during ARTFUTURA digital art festival, Spain 2007. Concept: LeandroHBL & Hermano Vianna Director: Leandro HBL Production director: Amiten Cinematiography: Leandro HBL Live editor: Breno Fortes Live Performance: Sany Pittbull
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More info at: favelaonblastfilm@gmail.com twitter.com Also check: www.facebook.com www.leandrohbl.com www.maddecent.com Gilberto Gil talks technology inside the slums using 'Favela on Blast' film as an exemple. This video was transmitted as a live TV Show from Rio to Barcelona using for the first time intercontinental fiber channel internet connection (also called internet 2) during ARTFUTURA digital art festival, Spain 2007. Concept: LeandroHBL & Hermano Vianna Director: Leandro HBL Production director: Amiten Cinematiography: Leandro HBL Live editor: Breno Fortes Live Performance: Sany Pittbull
- published: 07 Nov 2007
- views: 6309
- author: Leandro HBL
Gilberto Gil Performing Live November 26th 2009 in Bilbao, Spain.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:53
- Updated: 10 Aug 2010
Video from La Conquistadora's Blog. For more Gilberto Gil or other concert events in Europe visit: www.laconquistadora.wordpress.com or subscribe.
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Video from La Conquistadora's Blog. For more Gilberto Gil or other concert events in Europe visit: www.laconquistadora.wordpress.com or subscribe.
- published: 26 Nov 2009
- views: 417
- author: laconquistadora77
MIMA presents "Aganju" by Gilberto Gil (2011)
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- Duration: 9:23
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
Brazilian music icon and former Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil improvises and interacts with the audience at MIMA's first international conference at Princeton University. Pianist Cidinho Teixeira shares the stage.
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Brazilian music icon and former Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil improvises and interacts with the audience at MIMA's first international conference at Princeton University. Pianist Cidinho Teixeira shares the stage.
- published: 22 Mar 2011
- views: 1802
- author: MIMAMusicInc
Gilberto Gil Tel Aviv april 2011 A raça humana
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- Duration: 4:44
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Gilberto Gil Tel Aviv april 2011 A raça humana
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Gilberto Gil canta "Ela" - Grandes Nomes
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- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
Gilberto Gil canta "Ela" - Grandes Nomes
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Gilberto Gil - Refazenda
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:41
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Mais uma do acústico MTV!
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Gilberto Gil Concert at the United Nations Headquarters
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 58:21
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
Friday, 19 September 2003 - renowned Brazilian composer, singer and guitarist Gilberto Gil performed in the General Assembly Hall to honour the memory of those who lost their lives in the attack on the United Nations compound in Baghdad, Iraq, on 19 August 2003 and to mark the occasion of the International Day of Peace (21 September). Ministério da Cultura - Brasil
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Concert_at_the_United_Nations_Headquarters
Friday, 19 September 2003 - renowned Brazilian composer, singer and guitarist Gilberto Gil performed in the General Assembly Hall to honour the memory of those who lost their lives in the attack on the United Nations compound in Baghdad, Iraq, on 19 August 2003 and to mark the occasion of the International Day of Peace (21 September). Ministério da Cultura - Brasil
- published: 10 Jun 2012
- views: 2735
- author: Jose Murilo
Tributo a Bob Marley , Gilberto Gil en Braz
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:18
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Exelente tributo a Bob Marley, reggae con zamba brazilero, espero les guste. Saludos
http://wn.com/Tributo_a_Bob_Marley_,_Gilberto_Gil_en_Braz
Exelente tributo a Bob Marley, reggae con zamba brazilero, espero les guste. Saludos
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 18953
- author: Peter Gabriel
Rock In Rio I - Gilberto Gil (jan/1985)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:27
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Rock In Rio I - Gilberto Gil (jan/1985)
http://wn.com/Rock_In_Rio_I_Gilberto_Gil_jan_1985
Gilberto Gil AO Vivo - Multishow 25/12/2012 #GilNoMultisow (Show Completo)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 70:16
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Gilberto Gil AO Vivo - Multishow 25/12/2012 #GilNoMultisow (Show Completo)
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_AO_Vivo_Multishow_25_12_2012_GilNoMultisow_Show_Completo
Gilberto Gil AO Vivo - Multishow 25/12/2012 #GilNoMultisow (Show Completo)
- published: 26 Dec 2012
- views: 2194
- author: residentevilretrib
Gilberto Gil - reggae
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 38:31
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
Gilberto Gil : 1 -- Extra 2 -- Raça humana 3 -- Índigo blues 4 -- Vamos fugir 5 -- Gimme your Love 6 -- Something 7 -- Table tennis table 8 -- Could you be loved
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_reggae
Gilberto Gil : 1 -- Extra 2 -- Raça humana 3 -- Índigo blues 4 -- Vamos fugir 5 -- Gimme your Love 6 -- Something 7 -- Table tennis table 8 -- Could you be loved
- published: 06 Jun 2012
- views: 2591
- author: lula dorê
Ensaio - Gilberto Gil
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- Duration: 75:27
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Gilberto Gil é o convidado de Fernando Faro deste Ensaio especial. No programa, Gil relembra de sua infância em Ituaçu, interior da Bahia; da relação com os pais José Gil e Claudina; das músicas que ouvia quando criança. O músico fala sobre muitas composições como "Roda", "Louvação" e "Procissão", aproveitando para contar como foram compostas e em que circunstâncias. A partir daí, lembra de seus parceiros, como Torquato Neto, João Augusto e Capinan; cantarola trechos de grandes músicas como "Zabelê" e "Lunik 9". Confessa sua paixão por Elis Regina, intérprete de grandes músicas que Gil lembra no Ensaio, dentre elas "Amor Até o Fim", "Meio de Campo" e "Doente Morena". Da parceria com Chico Buarque, Gil fala sobre o clássico "Cálice"; das composições com João Donato, lembra de "Bananeira", "Lugar Comum", "Emoriô" e "A Paz". De sua relação com Caetano, fala da música que compôs em Londres para o parceiro, "Ele e Eu", e das diferenças de personalidade entre eles. Gil não deixa de homenagear os Filhos de Gandhy, com quem sai todos os anos no carnaval da Bahia.
http://wn.com/Ensaio_Gilberto_Gil
Gilberto Gil é o convidado de Fernando Faro deste Ensaio especial. No programa, Gil relembra de sua infância em Ituaçu, interior da Bahia; da relação com os pais José Gil e Claudina; das músicas que ouvia quando criança. O músico fala sobre muitas composições como "Roda", "Louvação" e "Procissão", aproveitando para contar como foram compostas e em que circunstâncias. A partir daí, lembra de seus parceiros, como Torquato Neto, João Augusto e Capinan; cantarola trechos de grandes músicas como "Zabelê" e "Lunik 9". Confessa sua paixão por Elis Regina, intérprete de grandes músicas que Gil lembra no Ensaio, dentre elas "Amor Até o Fim", "Meio de Campo" e "Doente Morena". Da parceria com Chico Buarque, Gil fala sobre o clássico "Cálice"; das composições com João Donato, lembra de "Bananeira", "Lugar Comum", "Emoriô" e "A Paz". De sua relação com Caetano, fala da música que compôs em Londres para o parceiro, "Ele e Eu", e das diferenças de personalidade entre eles. Gil não deixa de homenagear os Filhos de Gandhy, com quem sai todos os anos no carnaval da Bahia.
- published: 06 Jun 2012
- views: 6850
- author: cultura
Erick Hachenburg, Eric Baptiste, Gilberto Gil at Zeitgeist08
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 38:50
- Updated: 15 Oct 2010
A discussion panel moderated by James Boyle, on copyright laws and how best to nurture and protect artists in todays digital world
http://wn.com/Erick_Hachenburg,_Eric_Baptiste,_Gilberto_Gil_at_Zeitgeist08
A discussion panel moderated by James Boyle, on copyright laws and how best to nurture and protect artists in todays digital world
- published: 19 May 2008
- views: 1767
- author: eurozeitgeist08
Gilberto Gil - Kaya N'gandaya (DVD Completo + Legenda)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:14
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Curta nosso facebook - www.facebook.com/reggaeraiz 1. Tempo Só (Time Will Tell) 2. Three Little Birds 3. Eleve-se Alto ao Céu (Lively up Yourself) 4. Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block) 5. Buffalo Soldier 6. One Drop 7. Positive Vibration 8. Turn Your Lights Down Low 9. Waiting in Vain 10. Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) 11. Extra 12. Kaya N'Gan Daya (Kaya) 13. Nos Barracos da Cidade (Barracos) 14. Is this love Gilberto Gil tinha um sonho antigo - gravar um álbum com músicas de uma de suas maiores influências - Bob Marley. Em 2002 quando ele completou 60 anos de idade, esse sonho tornou-se realidade. Gilberto Gil lança simultaneamente CD e DVD somente com canções do papa do reggae. Show e documentário filmado na Jamaica. SHOW KAYA N'GAN DAYA - filmado no Direct TV Hall , São Paulo, em dezembro de 2001.
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Kaya_N'gandaya_DVD_Completo_+_Legenda
Curta nosso facebook - www.facebook.com/reggaeraiz 1. Tempo Só (Time Will Tell) 2. Three Little Birds 3. Eleve-se Alto ao Céu (Lively up Yourself) 4. Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block) 5. Buffalo Soldier 6. One Drop 7. Positive Vibration 8. Turn Your Lights Down Low 9. Waiting in Vain 10. Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) 11. Extra 12. Kaya N'Gan Daya (Kaya) 13. Nos Barracos da Cidade (Barracos) 14. Is this love Gilberto Gil tinha um sonho antigo - gravar um álbum com músicas de uma de suas maiores influências - Bob Marley. Em 2002 quando ele completou 60 anos de idade, esse sonho tornou-se realidade. Gilberto Gil lança simultaneamente CD e DVD somente com canções do papa do reggae. Show e documentário filmado na Jamaica. SHOW KAYA N'GAN DAYA - filmado no Direct TV Hall , São Paulo, em dezembro de 2001.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 3963
- author: programareggaeraiz
DVD Gilberto Gil acustico MTV
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 86:56
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/DVD_Gilberto_Gil_acustico_MTV
Revista Brasis entrevista Gilberto Gil - Ocupar, resistir e produzir na rede
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 51:49
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Em entrevista exclusiva concedida à Revista Brasis, o cantor, compositor e ex-ministro Gilberto Gil comenta sobre a importância das redes sociais, da cultura digital na atualidade e as novas ferramentas de mobilização política no mundo
http://wn.com/Revista_Brasis_entrevista_Gilberto_Gil_Ocupar,_resistir_e_produzir_na_rede
Em entrevista exclusiva concedida à Revista Brasis, o cantor, compositor e ex-ministro Gilberto Gil comenta sobre a importância das redes sociais, da cultura digital na atualidade e as novas ferramentas de mobilização política no mundo
- published: 15 Jul 2012
- views: 684
- author: Revista Brasis
BRAZIL Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 50:25
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/BRAZIL_Gilberto_Gil
KAYA N'GAN DAYA Gilberto Gil Parte 1 de 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 32:45
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Después de grabar un trabajo de homenaje a su viejo ídolo, Luiz Gonzaga "el rey del Baiao", Gilberto Gil grabó este disco donde conmemora su admiración por Bob Marley. No es la primera vez que Gil interpreta el repertorio de la estrella jamaiquina - hace años hizo un "cover" de "No woman...
http://wn.com/KAYA_N'GAN_DAYA_Gilberto_Gil_Parte_1_de_4
Después de grabar un trabajo de homenaje a su viejo ídolo, Luiz Gonzaga "el rey del Baiao", Gilberto Gil grabó este disco donde conmemora su admiración por Bob Marley. No es la primera vez que Gil interpreta el repertorio de la estrella jamaiquina - hace años hizo un "cover" de "No woman...
- published: 23 Nov 2012
- views: 1166
- author: eltopoandres1
Mosaicos - A Arte de Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 48:09
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Documentário musical revê a trajetória do artista e traz participações de Andréas Kisser, Charles Gavin, Clemente, Bi Ribeiro, Black Rio, Mariene de Castro e Jurandir Santana interpretando clássicos como "Palco", "Pessoa Nefasta", "Punk da Periferia", "Eu Vim da Bahia", "Aquele Abraço", entre outras. Os Mutantes interpretam "Panis Et Circense", Sérgio Dias, Celso Fonseca e Carlos Rennó dão seus depoimentos sobre o homenageado. O documentário musical ? dirigido por Nico Prado e com narração de Rolando Boldrin ? mescla imagens de acervo às gravações inéditas. Do arquivo da TV Cultura, ?Mosaicos ? A Arte de Gilberto Gil? recupera imagens do cantor em programas históricos da emissora, como "Gil 20 Anos Luz" (1985),"Especial Um Banda Um" (1982), "Ponto de Encontro" (1979), etc.
http://wn.com/Mosaicos_A_Arte_de_Gilberto_Gil
Documentário musical revê a trajetória do artista e traz participações de Andréas Kisser, Charles Gavin, Clemente, Bi Ribeiro, Black Rio, Mariene de Castro e Jurandir Santana interpretando clássicos como "Palco", "Pessoa Nefasta", "Punk da Periferia", "Eu Vim da Bahia", "Aquele Abraço", entre outras. Os Mutantes interpretam "Panis Et Circense", Sérgio Dias, Celso Fonseca e Carlos Rennó dão seus depoimentos sobre o homenageado. O documentário musical ? dirigido por Nico Prado e com narração de Rolando Boldrin ? mescla imagens de acervo às gravações inéditas. Do arquivo da TV Cultura, ?Mosaicos ? A Arte de Gilberto Gil? recupera imagens do cantor em programas históricos da emissora, como "Gil 20 Anos Luz" (1985),"Especial Um Banda Um" (1982), "Ponto de Encontro" (1979), etc.
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 582
- author: cultura
One on One - Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:49
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Musician Gilberto Gil discusses his award-winning music, his colorful life experiences, and the power of music to affect social change.
http://wn.com/One_on_One_Gilberto_Gil
Musician Gilberto Gil discusses his award-winning music, his colorful life experiences, and the power of music to affect social change.
- published: 05 Sep 2010
- views: 2803
- author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo - Première
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 114:42
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Concerto_de_Cordas_Máquinas_de_Ritmo_Première
Gilberto Gil at Creative Commons 5th anniversary
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- Duration: 27:18
- Updated: 17 Sep 2009
Gilberto Gil at Creative Commons 5th anniversary Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial-Non derivative work license
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_at_Creative_Commons_5th_anniversary
Gilberto Gil at Creative Commons 5th anniversary Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial-Non derivative work license
- published: 27 Dec 2007
- views: 133
- author: siva001
Conversation with Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 27:02
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
Interview with Brazilian music legend Gilberto Gil. Interviewer Kavin Paulraj (Doctoral Student at the University of Pittsburgh's History Department) asked questions ranging from his time as Brazil's Minister of Culture to his music.
http://wn.com/Conversation_with_Gilberto_Gil
Interview with Brazilian music legend Gilberto Gil. Interviewer Kavin Paulraj (Doctoral Student at the University of Pittsburgh's History Department) asked questions ranging from his time as Brazil's Minister of Culture to his music.
- published: 01 Dec 2012
- views: 38
- author: CLASPITT
Gilberto Gil Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1978)
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- Duration: 72:22
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
With Pepeu Gomes, Jorge Gomes, Rubens Silva, Maurício Carvalho and Djalma Correa.
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Live_at_Montreux_Jazz_Festival_1978
With Pepeu Gomes, Jorge Gomes, Rubens Silva, Maurício Carvalho and Djalma Correa.
- published: 25 Sep 2012
- views: 5761
- author: AND3R50N5ARC1A
Repertório Popular - Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 45:08
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Acompanhado só por seu violão, Gilberto Gil interpreta músicas de várias épocas de sua carreira em uma apresentação gravada em 1979.
http://wn.com/Repertório_Popular_Gilberto_Gil
Acompanhado só por seu violão, Gilberto Gil interpreta músicas de várias épocas de sua carreira em uma apresentação gravada em 1979.
- published: 11 Jun 2012
- views: 4678
- author: cultura
Antonio Negri e Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 47:21
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
Conferência - "A Constituição do Comum" Abertura: Ministro Gilberto Gil Conferência de Antonio Negri - Moderador: Sergio Sá Leitão - Secretário de Políticas Culturais do MinC
http://wn.com/Antonio_Negri_e_Gilberto_Gil
Conferência - "A Constituição do Comum" Abertura: Ministro Gilberto Gil Conferência de Antonio Negri - Moderador: Sergio Sá Leitão - Secretário de Políticas Culturais do MinC
- published: 26 Feb 2006
- views: 19628
- author: Jose Murilo
Gilberto Gil pão music 2002
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 35:12
- Updated: 09 Nov 2012
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_pão_music_2002
Gilberto Gil 2 pão music 2002
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:17
- Updated: 09 Nov 2012
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_2_pão_music_2002
Filhos de Gandhi - Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 23:30
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
CD COMPLETE TO DOWNLOAD IN ouveae.blogspot.com.br (Parte 1 e Parte 2) . Gil dá uma aula sobre o Afoxé Filhos de Gandhi para os alunos da USP. Em março de 1973, portanto há 38 anos atrás, o estudante de geologia Alexandre Vannuchi Leme foi torturado e assassinado pelo governo militar que dominava o Brasil. Laí Abramo, que era conhecida de Gilberto Gil convenceu o cantor a fazer um show em protesto contra a morte do estudante. A apresentação foi marcada para 26 de Maio, um sábado à tarde. Gil canta durante mais de duas horas, inicialmente tentando aliviar o clima pesado, com músicas como "Chiclete com Banana", "Senhor Delegado", "Eu quero um samba" , mas o público que mais - pede "Cálice" . Gil desconversa, diz que não se lembra bem da letra, mas um estudante pega um pedaço de papel e escreve a letra e entrega para Gil, que não tem então como não cantá-la. O interessante é que tudo isto está registrado em áudio, inclusive vários trechos de diálogo entre Gil e os estudantes presentes. Claro, que num pais como o Brasil, toda esta raridade permaneceu inédita nos últimos anos. Mas não é que agora é possível achar e ouvir o registro desse show histórico?
http://wn.com/Filhos_de_Gandhi_Gilberto_Gil
CD COMPLETE TO DOWNLOAD IN ouveae.blogspot.com.br (Parte 1 e Parte 2) . Gil dá uma aula sobre o Afoxé Filhos de Gandhi para os alunos da USP. Em março de 1973, portanto há 38 anos atrás, o estudante de geologia Alexandre Vannuchi Leme foi torturado e assassinado pelo governo militar que dominava o Brasil. Laí Abramo, que era conhecida de Gilberto Gil convenceu o cantor a fazer um show em protesto contra a morte do estudante. A apresentação foi marcada para 26 de Maio, um sábado à tarde. Gil canta durante mais de duas horas, inicialmente tentando aliviar o clima pesado, com músicas como "Chiclete com Banana", "Senhor Delegado", "Eu quero um samba" , mas o público que mais - pede "Cálice" . Gil desconversa, diz que não se lembra bem da letra, mas um estudante pega um pedaço de papel e escreve a letra e entrega para Gil, que não tem então como não cantá-la. O interessante é que tudo isto está registrado em áudio, inclusive vários trechos de diálogo entre Gil e os estudantes presentes. Claro, que num pais como o Brasil, toda esta raridade permaneceu inédita nos últimos anos. Mas não é que agora é possível achar e ouvir o registro desse show histórico?
- published: 10 Dec 2011
- views: 2348
- author: Ricardo Andrade
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Toda Menina Baiana - Gilberto Gil (CD - Stereo)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Damned if I can find my vinyl 12" of this, so here's a CD copy for now. Been itching to put it up for ages.
http://wn.com/Toda_Menina_Baiana_Gilberto_Gil_CD_Stereo
Damned if I can find my vinyl 12" of this, so here's a CD copy for now. Been itching to put it up for ages.
- published: 12 Apr 2008
- views: 916023
- author: fastflyer2007
Aquele Abraco, Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:30
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Aquele Abraco by Gilberto Gil from his Acoustic album. This song made Gil famous decades ago but still sounds modern in this acoustic interpretation. The song's title refers to the open arms of the Cristo Redentor on Corcovado (the large of statue of Jesus on the mountain near Rio) and is a symbol of the city.
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Aquele Abraco by Gilberto Gil from his Acoustic album. This song made Gil famous decades ago but still sounds modern in this acoustic interpretation. The song's title refers to the open arms of the Cristo Redentor on Corcovado (the large of statue of Jesus on the mountain near Rio) and is a symbol of the city.
- published: 29 May 2008
- views: 237473
- author: cristofhwildcats
Gilberto Gil (expresso 2222)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:50
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Acoustic
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_expresso_2222
Gilberto Gil - Divine and Marvellous - Brazil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 19:05
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
July 2005 Gilberto Gil is one of the most popular musicians in Brazil. Born in 1944, Gil grew up with music, but also with political oppression. He soon gained a reputation in the 1960s as a activist against the far-right establishment, using music as a last form of dissent. In the end, he found hmself exiled by the government, and though he mixed with pop giants in London during the 1970s such as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix, it was of course with Brazil that his heart really lay. Since the first electoral victory of a left-wing Brazilian party for the first time in forty years last year, Gil's enduring popularity among his countrymen has earned him a place in government, as Minister of Culture. In this heart-warming film, Gil, now 61, speaks frankly about the difficult years in his life, the people he has met along the way, his attitude towards Brazilian politics and activism, and his feelings about the apparent disparity between his once anti-establishment opinions and his position in government today. Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Divine_and_Marvellous_Brazil
July 2005 Gilberto Gil is one of the most popular musicians in Brazil. Born in 1944, Gil grew up with music, but also with political oppression. He soon gained a reputation in the 1960s as a activist against the far-right establishment, using music as a last form of dissent. In the end, he found hmself exiled by the government, and though he mixed with pop giants in London during the 1970s such as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix, it was of course with Brazil that his heart really lay. Since the first electoral victory of a left-wing Brazilian party for the first time in forty years last year, Gil's enduring popularity among his countrymen has earned him a place in government, as Minister of Culture. In this heart-warming film, Gil, now 61, speaks frankly about the difficult years in his life, the people he has met along the way, his attitude towards Brazilian politics and activism, and his feelings about the apparent disparity between his once anti-establishment opinions and his position in government today. Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
- published: 20 Nov 2007
- views: 80122
- author: journeymanpictures
Tributo a Bob Marley , Gilberto Gil en Braz
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 63:18
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Exelente tributo a Bob Marley, reggae con zamba brazilero, espero les guste. Saludos
http://wn.com/Tributo_a_Bob_Marley_,_Gilberto_Gil_en_Braz
Exelente tributo a Bob Marley, reggae con zamba brazilero, espero les guste. Saludos
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 18953
- author: Peter Gabriel
Gilberto Gil - Waiting in Vain
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:30
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Ao vivo.
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Waiting_in_Vain
PALCO - Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:23
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Gil began recording in 1966. During the seventies, he recorded for a number of Brazilian record companies. He toured Brazil in 1980 with Jimmy Cliff; they made a record that sold about 700000 copies. During the eighties, he performed at a number of jazz clubs in the United States.
http://wn.com/PALCO_Gilberto_Gil
Gil began recording in 1966. During the seventies, he recorded for a number of Brazilian record companies. He toured Brazil in 1980 with Jimmy Cliff; they made a record that sold about 700000 copies. During the eighties, he performed at a number of jazz clubs in the United States.
- published: 19 Aug 2007
- views: 202808
- author: Arturo Cayetano
Interview Gilberto Gil - USA Tour.mp4
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- Duration: 9:31
- Updated: 18 Nov 2012
Interview Gilberto Gil - 2010 BandaDois
http://wn.com/Interview_Gilberto_Gil_USA_Tourmp4
Gilberto Gil - "Expresso 2222" (TV Globo, 1972)
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- Duration: 5:26
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Quando voltaram do exílio londrino, em março de 72, Gilberto Gil e Caetano Veloso fizeram um show no Teatro Municipal do Rio. O espetáculo foi gravado e exibido pela TV Globo dentro da faixa "Sexta Nobre". Neste vídeo, Gil mostra ao público uma canção ainda inédita, "Expresso 2222", um grande sucesso que daria nome ao disco que ele gravaria em seguida.
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Expresso_2222_TV_Globo,_1972
Quando voltaram do exílio londrino, em março de 72, Gilberto Gil e Caetano Veloso fizeram um show no Teatro Municipal do Rio. O espetáculo foi gravado e exibido pela TV Globo dentro da faixa "Sexta Nobre". Neste vídeo, Gil mostra ao público uma canção ainda inédita, "Expresso 2222", um grande sucesso que daria nome ao disco que ele gravaria em seguida.
- published: 29 Jul 2008
- views: 207293
- author: pugaman77
Toquinho & Gilberto Gil - Tarde em Itapoã
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Toquinho_Gilberto_Gil_Tarde_em_Itapoã
Gilberto Gil and Stevie Wonder
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:12
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Desafinado
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_and_Stevie_Wonder
Gilberto Gil - Vamos Fugir
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:42
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Gilberto Gil - Vamos Fugir
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Vamos_Fugir
Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben - Taj Mahal, 1975
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:00
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_and_Jorge_Ben_Taj_Mahal,_1975
Gilberto Gil - Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:08
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Ao vivo.
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Não_Chore_Mais_No_Woman,_No_Cry
Gilberto Gil - Esperando na Janela
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- Duration: 4:44
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Videoclip Gilberto Gil, álbum Eu,Tu,Eles
http://wn.com/Gilberto_Gil_Esperando_na_Janela
Videoclip Gilberto Gil, álbum Eu,Tu,Eles
- published: 02 Apr 2008
- views: 1059603
- author: gilbertogilmusic
Gilberto Gil - Estrela
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- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Estrela music and Lyrics by Gilberto Gil. ........................................... Há de surgir Uma estrela no céu Cada vez que ocê sorrir Há de apagar Uma estrela no céu Cada vez que ocê chorar O contrário também Bem que pode acontecer De uma estrela brilhar Quando a lágrima cair Ou então De uma estrela cadente se jogar Só pra ver A flor do seu sorriso se abrir Hum! Deus fará Absurdos Contanto que a vida Seja assim Sim Um altar Onde a gente celebre Tudo o que Ele consentir
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Estrela music and Lyrics by Gilberto Gil. ........................................... Há de surgir Uma estrela no céu Cada vez que ocê sorrir Há de apagar Uma estrela no céu Cada vez que ocê chorar O contrário também Bem que pode acontecer De uma estrela brilhar Quando a lágrima cair Ou então De uma estrela cadente se jogar Só pra ver A flor do seu sorriso se abrir Hum! Deus fará Absurdos Contanto que a vida Seja assim Sim Um altar Onde a gente celebre Tudo o que Ele consentir
- published: 08 Oct 2007
- views: 463369
- author: Duka DK
Ensaio - Gilberto Gil
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 75:27
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Gilberto Gil é o convidado de Fernando Faro deste Ensaio especial. No programa, Gil relembra de sua infância em Ituaçu, interior da Bahia; da relação com os pais José Gil e Claudina; das músicas que ouvia quando criança. O músico fala sobre muitas composições como "Roda", "Louvação" e "Procissão", aproveitando para contar como foram compostas e em que circunstâncias. A partir daí, lembra de seus parceiros, como Torquato Neto, João Augusto e Capinan; cantarola trechos de grandes músicas como "Zabelê" e "Lunik 9". Confessa sua paixão por Elis Regina, intérprete de grandes músicas que Gil lembra no Ensaio, dentre elas "Amor Até o Fim", "Meio de Campo" e "Doente Morena". Da parceria com Chico Buarque, Gil fala sobre o clássico "Cálice"; das composições com João Donato, lembra de "Bananeira", "Lugar Comum", "Emoriô" e "A Paz". De sua relação com Caetano, fala da música que compôs em Londres para o parceiro, "Ele e Eu", e das diferenças de personalidade entre eles. Gil não deixa de homenagear os Filhos de Gandhy, com quem sai todos os anos no carnaval da Bahia.
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Gilberto Gil é o convidado de Fernando Faro deste Ensaio especial. No programa, Gil relembra de sua infância em Ituaçu, interior da Bahia; da relação com os pais José Gil e Claudina; das músicas que ouvia quando criança. O músico fala sobre muitas composições como "Roda", "Louvação" e "Procissão", aproveitando para contar como foram compostas e em que circunstâncias. A partir daí, lembra de seus parceiros, como Torquato Neto, João Augusto e Capinan; cantarola trechos de grandes músicas como "Zabelê" e "Lunik 9". Confessa sua paixão por Elis Regina, intérprete de grandes músicas que Gil lembra no Ensaio, dentre elas "Amor Até o Fim", "Meio de Campo" e "Doente Morena". Da parceria com Chico Buarque, Gil fala sobre o clássico "Cálice"; das composições com João Donato, lembra de "Bananeira", "Lugar Comum", "Emoriô" e "A Paz". De sua relação com Caetano, fala da música que compôs em Londres para o parceiro, "Ele e Eu", e das diferenças de personalidade entre eles. Gil não deixa de homenagear os Filhos de Gandhy, com quem sai todos os anos no carnaval da Bahia.
- published: 06 Jun 2012
- views: 6850
- author: cultura
Gilberto Gil - Realce
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:45
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Good tune from GIlberto Gil, comment and enjoooy.. ;)
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Good tune from GIlberto Gil, comment and enjoooy.. ;)
- published: 11 Sep 2009
- views: 145513
- author: odominguez
Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben: Filhos De Gandhi
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:47
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
1975 in Rio, session of studio, way jam acoustic between two giants of Afro Brazilian, Jorge Ben, pope of the soul samba and Gilberto Gil, heavyweight of the groove of Bahia. Around the hymn of "the sons of gandhi", Afro block of bahia, Jorge and Gil get out the filling, invent a tongue. Minimalist ten minutes in music but almost trance in the spirit.
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1975 in Rio, session of studio, way jam acoustic between two giants of Afro Brazilian, Jorge Ben, pope of the soul samba and Gilberto Gil, heavyweight of the groove of Bahia. Around the hymn of "the sons of gandhi", Afro block of bahia, Jorge and Gil get out the filling, invent a tongue. Minimalist ten minutes in music but almost trance in the spirit.
- published: 01 Mar 2010
- views: 127980
- author: solweintraub
no woman no cry (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005
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porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005
- published: 17 Aug 2006
- views: 185757
- author: lampadarios metafraste
Gilberto Gil sing "No woman no cry" Reggae Samba
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:53
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Gilberto Gil
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Gilberto Gil - Cores Vivas
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:47
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Gilberto gil cores vivas
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Gilberto Gil - Extra
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:18
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Gilberto Gil - Extra - DVD "Kaya N'Gan Daya"
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5:29
MIMA presents "Esoterico" by Gilberto Gil (2011)
Brazilian singer-songwriter and former Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil serenades a full h...
published: 23 Mar 2011
author: MIMAMusicInc
MIMA presents "Esoterico" by Gilberto Gil (2011)
Brazilian singer-songwriter and former Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil serenades a full house at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium for MIMA's first international MIMA Conference.
- published: 23 Mar 2011
- views: 2038
- author: MIMAMusicInc
11:07
Gilberto Gil - Jazz à Vienne 2011 (Official)
Produced by : Zycopolis Productions - Act 4 Productions - France Televisions Directed by :...
published: 19 Jan 2012
author: Zycopolis
Gilberto Gil - Jazz à Vienne 2011 (Official)
Produced by : Zycopolis Productions - Act 4 Productions - France Televisions Directed by : Patrick Savey www.zycopolis.com www.facebook.com/zycopolis www.myspace.com/zycopolisproductions www.twitter.com/zycopolis www.vimeo.com/zycopolis www.dailymotion.com/zycopolis
- published: 19 Jan 2012
- views: 13668
- author: Zycopolis
4:37
no woman no cry (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005...
published: 17 Aug 2006
author: lampadarios
no woman no cry (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005
- published: 17 Aug 2006
- views: 185327
- author: lampadarios
72:22
Gilberto Gil Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1978)
With Pepeu Gomes, Jorge Gomes, Rubens Silva, Maurício Carvalho and Djalma Correa....
published: 25 Sep 2012
author: AND3R50N5ARC1A
Gilberto Gil Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1978)
With Pepeu Gomes, Jorge Gomes, Rubens Silva, Maurício Carvalho and Djalma Correa.
- published: 25 Sep 2012
- views: 4490
- author: AND3R50N5ARC1A
3:14
three little birds (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005...
published: 17 Aug 2006
author: lampadarios
three little birds (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
porto alegre, br world social forum jan 26 2005
- published: 17 Aug 2006
- views: 66056
- author: lampadarios
3:45
Gilberto Gil - Expresso 2222 (forro version, live London 2010)
Festival Brazil, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London - UK. July 21st, 2010. Some...
published: 22 Aug 2010
author: yoambulante
Gilberto Gil - Expresso 2222 (forro version, live London 2010)
Festival Brazil, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London - UK. July 21st, 2010. Some people asked me about this song, here is, it was amazing! especially what he said: This song was written here in London in 1971, when I was in holidays, lol! it was a hard time in Brazil and then they kicked me out...
- published: 22 Aug 2010
- views: 1881
- author: yoambulante
5:25
imagine (lennon) feat. gilberto gil live
porto alegre jan, 26, 2005 world social forum...
published: 17 Aug 2006
author: lampadarios
imagine (lennon) feat. gilberto gil live
porto alegre jan, 26, 2005 world social forum
- published: 17 Aug 2006
- views: 88622
- author: lampadarios
4:04
Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - live
Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - live. Rare live recording singing one of his most popu...
published: 24 Oct 2009
author: neofunkyman1
Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - live
Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - live. Rare live recording singing one of his most popular tunes from the 80s.
- published: 24 Oct 2009
- views: 12427
- author: neofunkyman1
4:23
could you be loved (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
porto alegre, br jan, 26th 2005 foro social mundial...
published: 20 Mar 2006
author: lampadarios
could you be loved (marley) feat. gilberto gil live
porto alegre, br jan, 26th 2005 foro social mundial
- published: 20 Mar 2006
- views: 105810
- author: lampadarios
3:35
Ala Pala
Tv Cultura 40 amos...
published: 12 Jul 2011
author: Passaredo1980
Ala Pala
Tv Cultura 40 amos
- published: 12 Jul 2011
- views: 4260
- author: Passaredo1980
6:40
Gilberto Gil Can't Find My Way Home (Live)
Gilberto Gil Album: Gilberto Gil (1971) Song: Can't Find My Way Home (Live, Bonus Track)...
published: 25 Aug 2010
author: Svanelicorne
Gilberto Gil Can't Find My Way Home (Live)
Gilberto Gil Album: Gilberto Gil (1971) Song: Can't Find My Way Home (Live, Bonus Track)
- published: 25 Aug 2010
- views: 6638
- author: Svanelicorne
5:10
Gilberto Gil - No Woman, No Cry (Live) (Portuguese/English subtitles)
Gilberto Gil - Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) (C) Gilberto Gil, 1980. Subtitled for sel...
published: 03 Jul 2012
author: Eduardo Zárate
Gilberto Gil - No Woman, No Cry (Live) (Portuguese/English subtitles)
Gilberto Gil - Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) (C) Gilberto Gil, 1980. Subtitled for self-training purposes, no infringement intended.
- published: 03 Jul 2012
- views: 385
- author: Eduardo Zárate
7:57
Gilberto Gil & The Broad Band Toronto Canada June 27, 2008
Gilberto Gil LIVE at Massey Hall Toronto Canada June 27, 2008...
published: 28 Jun 2008
author: kanadiankorner
Gilberto Gil & The Broad Band Toronto Canada June 27, 2008
Gilberto Gil LIVE at Massey Hall Toronto Canada June 27, 2008
- published: 28 Jun 2008
- views: 1940
- author: kanadiankorner
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1:10
Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - rare live
www.neofunkyman.ws Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - rare live...
published: 11 Jul 2009
author: neofunkyman1
Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - rare live
www.neofunkyman.ws Gilberto Gil - Toda menina baiana - rare live
- published: 11 Jul 2009
- views: 16628
- author: neofunkyman1
6:17
Gilberto Gil fala de FUNK Part 1_Favela on Blast (extras)
More info at: favelaonblastfilm@gmail.com twitter.com Also check: www.facebook.com www.lea...
published: 07 Nov 2007
author: Leandro HBL
Gilberto Gil fala de FUNK Part 1_Favela on Blast (extras)
More info at: favelaonblastfilm@gmail.com twitter.com Also check: www.facebook.com www.leandrohbl.com www.maddecent.com Gilberto Gil talks technology inside the slums using 'Favela on Blast' film as an exemple. This video was transmitted as a live TV Show from Rio to Barcelona using for the first time intercontinental fiber channel internet connection (also called internet 2) during ARTFUTURA digital art festival, Spain 2007. Concept: LeandroHBL & Hermano Vianna Director: Leandro HBL Production director: Amiten Cinematiography: Leandro HBL Live editor: Breno Fortes Live Performance: Sany Pittbull
- published: 07 Nov 2007
- views: 7695
- author: Leandro HBL
8:32
Gilberto Gil fala de FUNK Part 2_Favela on Blast (extras)
More info at: favelaonblastfilm@gmail.com twitter.com Also check: www.facebook.com www.lea...
published: 07 Nov 2007
author: Leandro HBL
Gilberto Gil fala de FUNK Part 2_Favela on Blast (extras)
More info at: favelaonblastfilm@gmail.com twitter.com Also check: www.facebook.com www.leandrohbl.com www.maddecent.com Gilberto Gil talks technology inside the slums using 'Favela on Blast' film as an exemple. This video was transmitted as a live TV Show from Rio to Barcelona using for the first time intercontinental fiber channel internet connection (also called internet 2) during ARTFUTURA digital art festival, Spain 2007. Concept: LeandroHBL & Hermano Vianna Director: Leandro HBL Production director: Amiten Cinematiography: Leandro HBL Live editor: Breno Fortes Live Performance: Sany Pittbull
- published: 07 Nov 2007
- views: 6309
- author: Leandro HBL
58:21
Gilberto Gil Concert at the United Nations Headquarters
Friday, 19 September 2003 - renowned Brazilian composer, singer and guitarist Gilberto Gil...
published: 10 Jun 2012
author: Jose Murilo
Gilberto Gil Concert at the United Nations Headquarters
Friday, 19 September 2003 - renowned Brazilian composer, singer and guitarist Gilberto Gil performed in the General Assembly Hall to honour the memory of those who lost their lives in the attack on the United Nations compound in Baghdad, Iraq, on 19 August 2003 and to mark the occasion of the International Day of Peace (21 September). Ministério da Cultura - Brasil
- published: 10 Jun 2012
- views: 2735
- author: Jose Murilo
63:18
Tributo a Bob Marley , Gilberto Gil en Braz
Exelente tributo a Bob Marley, reggae con zamba brazilero, espero les guste. Saludos...
published: 26 Aug 2012
author: Peter Gabriel
Tributo a Bob Marley , Gilberto Gil en Braz
Exelente tributo a Bob Marley, reggae con zamba brazilero, espero les guste. Saludos
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 18953
- author: Peter Gabriel
20:27
Rock In Rio I - Gilberto Gil (jan/1985)
Rock In Rio I - Gilberto Gil (jan/1985)...
published: 30 Oct 2008
author: gilbertogilmusic
Rock In Rio I - Gilberto Gil (jan/1985)
Rock In Rio I - Gilberto Gil (jan/1985)
- published: 30 Oct 2008
- views: 8412
- author: gilbertogilmusic
70:16
Gilberto Gil AO Vivo - Multishow 25/12/2012 #GilNoMultisow (Show Completo)
Gilberto Gil AO Vivo - Multishow 25/12/2012 #GilNoMultisow (Show Completo)...
published: 26 Dec 2012
author: residentevilretrib
Gilberto Gil AO Vivo - Multishow 25/12/2012 #GilNoMultisow (Show Completo)
Gilberto Gil AO Vivo - Multishow 25/12/2012 #GilNoMultisow (Show Completo)
- published: 26 Dec 2012
- views: 2194
- author: residentevilretrib
38:31
Gilberto Gil - reggae
Gilberto Gil : 1 -- Extra 2 -- Raça humana 3 -- Índigo blues 4 -- Vamos fugir 5 -- Gimme y...
published: 06 Jun 2012
author: lula dorê
Gilberto Gil - reggae
Gilberto Gil : 1 -- Extra 2 -- Raça humana 3 -- Índigo blues 4 -- Vamos fugir 5 -- Gimme your Love 6 -- Something 7 -- Table tennis table 8 -- Could you be loved
- published: 06 Jun 2012
- views: 2591
- author: lula dorê
75:27
Ensaio - Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil é o convidado de Fernando Faro deste Ensaio especial. No programa, Gil relemb...
published: 06 Jun 2012
author: cultura
Ensaio - Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil é o convidado de Fernando Faro deste Ensaio especial. No programa, Gil relembra de sua infância em Ituaçu, interior da Bahia; da relação com os pais José Gil e Claudina; das músicas que ouvia quando criança. O músico fala sobre muitas composições como "Roda", "Louvação" e "Procissão", aproveitando para contar como foram compostas e em que circunstâncias. A partir daí, lembra de seus parceiros, como Torquato Neto, João Augusto e Capinan; cantarola trechos de grandes músicas como "Zabelê" e "Lunik 9". Confessa sua paixão por Elis Regina, intérprete de grandes músicas que Gil lembra no Ensaio, dentre elas "Amor Até o Fim", "Meio de Campo" e "Doente Morena". Da parceria com Chico Buarque, Gil fala sobre o clássico "Cálice"; das composições com João Donato, lembra de "Bananeira", "Lugar Comum", "Emoriô" e "A Paz". De sua relação com Caetano, fala da música que compôs em Londres para o parceiro, "Ele e Eu", e das diferenças de personalidade entre eles. Gil não deixa de homenagear os Filhos de Gandhy, com quem sai todos os anos no carnaval da Bahia.
- published: 06 Jun 2012
- views: 6850
- author: cultura
38:50
Erick Hachenburg, Eric Baptiste, Gilberto Gil at Zeitgeist08
A discussion panel moderated by James Boyle, on copyright laws and how best to nurture and...
published: 19 May 2008
author: eurozeitgeist08
Erick Hachenburg, Eric Baptiste, Gilberto Gil at Zeitgeist08
A discussion panel moderated by James Boyle, on copyright laws and how best to nurture and protect artists in todays digital world
- published: 19 May 2008
- views: 1767
- author: eurozeitgeist08
63:14
Gilberto Gil - Kaya N'gandaya (DVD Completo + Legenda)
Curta nosso facebook - www.facebook.com/reggaeraiz 1. Tempo Só (Time Will Tell) 2. Three L...
published: 07 Dec 2012
author: programareggaeraiz
Gilberto Gil - Kaya N'gandaya (DVD Completo + Legenda)
Curta nosso facebook - www.facebook.com/reggaeraiz 1. Tempo Só (Time Will Tell) 2. Three Little Birds 3. Eleve-se Alto ao Céu (Lively up Yourself) 4. Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Road Block) 5. Buffalo Soldier 6. One Drop 7. Positive Vibration 8. Turn Your Lights Down Low 9. Waiting in Vain 10. Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry) 11. Extra 12. Kaya N'Gan Daya (Kaya) 13. Nos Barracos da Cidade (Barracos) 14. Is this love Gilberto Gil tinha um sonho antigo - gravar um álbum com músicas de uma de suas maiores influências - Bob Marley. Em 2002 quando ele completou 60 anos de idade, esse sonho tornou-se realidade. Gilberto Gil lança simultaneamente CD e DVD somente com canções do papa do reggae. Show e documentário filmado na Jamaica. SHOW KAYA N'GAN DAYA - filmado no Direct TV Hall , São Paulo, em dezembro de 2001.
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 3963
- author: programareggaeraiz
86:56
DVD Gilberto Gil acustico MTV
...
published: 02 Dec 2012
author: leandrobil
DVD Gilberto Gil acustico MTV
- published: 02 Dec 2012
- views: 1754
- author: leandrobil
51:49
Revista Brasis entrevista Gilberto Gil - Ocupar, resistir e produzir na rede
Em entrevista exclusiva concedida à Revista Brasis, o cantor, compositor e ex-ministro Gil...
published: 15 Jul 2012
author: Revista Brasis
Revista Brasis entrevista Gilberto Gil - Ocupar, resistir e produzir na rede
Em entrevista exclusiva concedida à Revista Brasis, o cantor, compositor e ex-ministro Gilberto Gil comenta sobre a importância das redes sociais, da cultura digital na atualidade e as novas ferramentas de mobilização política no mundo
- published: 15 Jul 2012
- views: 684
- author: Revista Brasis
50:25
BRAZIL Gilberto Gil
...
published: 06 Feb 2012
author: OnosProductions
BRAZIL Gilberto Gil
- published: 06 Feb 2012
- views: 551
- author: OnosProductions
32:45
KAYA N'GAN DAYA Gilberto Gil Parte 1 de 4
Después de grabar un trabajo de homenaje a su viejo ídolo, Luiz Gonzaga "el rey del Baiao"...
published: 23 Nov 2012
author: eltopoandres1
KAYA N'GAN DAYA Gilberto Gil Parte 1 de 4
Después de grabar un trabajo de homenaje a su viejo ídolo, Luiz Gonzaga "el rey del Baiao", Gilberto Gil grabó este disco donde conmemora su admiración por Bob Marley. No es la primera vez que Gil interpreta el repertorio de la estrella jamaiquina - hace años hizo un "cover" de "No woman...
- published: 23 Nov 2012
- views: 1166
- author: eltopoandres1
48:09
Mosaicos - A Arte de Gilberto Gil
Documentário musical revê a trajetória do artista e traz participações de Andréas Kisser, ...
published: 05 Jun 2012
author: cultura
Mosaicos - A Arte de Gilberto Gil
Documentário musical revê a trajetória do artista e traz participações de Andréas Kisser, Charles Gavin, Clemente, Bi Ribeiro, Black Rio, Mariene de Castro e Jurandir Santana interpretando clássicos como "Palco", "Pessoa Nefasta", "Punk da Periferia", "Eu Vim da Bahia", "Aquele Abraço", entre outras. Os Mutantes interpretam "Panis Et Circense", Sérgio Dias, Celso Fonseca e Carlos Rennó dão seus depoimentos sobre o homenageado. O documentário musical ? dirigido por Nico Prado e com narração de Rolando Boldrin ? mescla imagens de acervo às gravações inéditas. Do arquivo da TV Cultura, ?Mosaicos ? A Arte de Gilberto Gil? recupera imagens do cantor em programas históricos da emissora, como "Gil 20 Anos Luz" (1985),"Especial Um Banda Um" (1982), "Ponto de Encontro" (1979), etc.
- published: 05 Jun 2012
- views: 582
- author: cultura
22:49
One on One - Gilberto Gil
Musician Gilberto Gil discusses his award-winning music, his colorful life experiences, an...
published: 05 Sep 2010
author: AlJazeeraEnglish
One on One - Gilberto Gil
Musician Gilberto Gil discusses his award-winning music, his colorful life experiences, and the power of music to affect social change.
- published: 05 Sep 2010
- views: 2803
- author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Youtube results:
114:42
Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo - Première
...
published: 26 Nov 2012
author: gilbertogilmusic
Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo - Première
- published: 26 Nov 2012
- views: 3600
- author: gilbertogilmusic
27:18
Gilberto Gil at Creative Commons 5th anniversary
Gilberto Gil at Creative Commons 5th anniversary Creative Commons Attribution Non-commerci...
published: 27 Dec 2007
author: siva001
Gilberto Gil at Creative Commons 5th anniversary
Gilberto Gil at Creative Commons 5th anniversary Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial-Non derivative work license
- published: 27 Dec 2007
- views: 133
- author: siva001
27:02
Conversation with Gilberto Gil
Interview with Brazilian music legend Gilberto Gil. Interviewer Kavin Paulraj (Doctoral St...
published: 01 Dec 2012
author: CLASPITT
Conversation with Gilberto Gil
Interview with Brazilian music legend Gilberto Gil. Interviewer Kavin Paulraj (Doctoral Student at the University of Pittsburgh's History Department) asked questions ranging from his time as Brazil's Minister of Culture to his music.
- published: 01 Dec 2012
- views: 38
- author: CLASPITT
72:22
Gilberto Gil Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1978)
With Pepeu Gomes, Jorge Gomes, Rubens Silva, Maurício Carvalho and Djalma Correa....
published: 25 Sep 2012
author: AND3R50N5ARC1A
Gilberto Gil Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1978)
With Pepeu Gomes, Jorge Gomes, Rubens Silva, Maurício Carvalho and Djalma Correa.
- published: 25 Sep 2012
- views: 5761
- author: AND3R50N5ARC1A
3:48
Toda Menina Baiana - Gilberto Gil (CD - Stereo)
Damned if I can find my vinyl 12" of this, so here's a CD copy for now. Been itching to pu...
published: 12 Apr 2008
author: fastflyer2007
Toda Menina Baiana - Gilberto Gil (CD - Stereo)
Damned if I can find my vinyl 12" of this, so here's a CD copy for now. Been itching to put it up for ages.
- published: 12 Apr 2008
- views: 916023
- author: fastflyer2007
4:30
Aquele Abraco, Gilberto Gil
Aquele Abraco by Gilberto Gil from his Acoustic album. This song made Gil famous decades a...
published: 29 May 2008
author: cristofhwildcats
Aquele Abraco, Gilberto Gil
Aquele Abraco by Gilberto Gil from his Acoustic album. This song made Gil famous decades ago but still sounds modern in this acoustic interpretation. The song's title refers to the open arms of the Cristo Redentor on Corcovado (the large of statue of Jesus on the mountain near Rio) and is a symbol of the city.
- published: 29 May 2008
- views: 237473
- author: cristofhwildcats
19:05
Gilberto Gil - Divine and Marvellous - Brazil
July 2005 Gilberto Gil is one of the most popular musicians in Brazil. Born in 1944, Gil g...
published: 20 Nov 2007
author: journeymanpictures
Gilberto Gil - Divine and Marvellous - Brazil
July 2005 Gilberto Gil is one of the most popular musicians in Brazil. Born in 1944, Gil grew up with music, but also with political oppression. He soon gained a reputation in the 1960s as a activist against the far-right establishment, using music as a last form of dissent. In the end, he found hmself exiled by the government, and though he mixed with pop giants in London during the 1970s such as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix, it was of course with Brazil that his heart really lay. Since the first electoral victory of a left-wing Brazilian party for the first time in forty years last year, Gil's enduring popularity among his countrymen has earned him a place in government, as Minister of Culture. In this heart-warming film, Gil, now 61, speaks frankly about the difficult years in his life, the people he has met along the way, his attitude towards Brazilian politics and activism, and his feelings about the apparent disparity between his once anti-establishment opinions and his position in government today. Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
- published: 20 Nov 2007
- views: 80122
- author: journeymanpictures
63:18
Tributo a Bob Marley , Gilberto Gil en Braz
Exelente tributo a Bob Marley, reggae con zamba brazilero, espero les guste. Saludos...
published: 26 Aug 2012
author: Peter Gabriel
Tributo a Bob Marley , Gilberto Gil en Braz
Exelente tributo a Bob Marley, reggae con zamba brazilero, espero les guste. Saludos
- published: 26 Aug 2012
- views: 18953
- author: Peter Gabriel
4:30
Gilberto Gil - Waiting in Vain
Ao vivo....
published: 03 Apr 2007
author: George Macêdo
Gilberto Gil - Waiting in Vain
Ao vivo.
- published: 03 Apr 2007
- views: 285338
- author: George Macêdo
4:23
PALCO - Gilberto Gil
Gil began recording in 1966. During the seventies, he recorded for a number of Brazilian r...
published: 19 Aug 2007
author: Arturo Cayetano
PALCO - Gilberto Gil
Gil began recording in 1966. During the seventies, he recorded for a number of Brazilian record companies. He toured Brazil in 1980 with Jimmy Cliff; they made a record that sold about 700000 copies. During the eighties, he performed at a number of jazz clubs in the United States.
- published: 19 Aug 2007
- views: 202808
- author: Arturo Cayetano
9:31
Interview Gilberto Gil - USA Tour.mp4
Interview Gilberto Gil - 2010 BandaDois...
published: 05 Mar 2010
author: gilbertogilmusic
Interview Gilberto Gil - USA Tour.mp4
Interview Gilberto Gil - 2010 BandaDois
- published: 05 Mar 2010
- views: 4385
- author: gilbertogilmusic
5:26
Gilberto Gil - "Expresso 2222" (TV Globo, 1972)
Quando voltaram do exílio londrino, em março de 72, Gilberto Gil e Caetano Veloso fizeram ...
published: 29 Jul 2008
author: pugaman77
Gilberto Gil - "Expresso 2222" (TV Globo, 1972)
Quando voltaram do exílio londrino, em março de 72, Gilberto Gil e Caetano Veloso fizeram um show no Teatro Municipal do Rio. O espetáculo foi gravado e exibido pela TV Globo dentro da faixa "Sexta Nobre". Neste vídeo, Gil mostra ao público uma canção ainda inédita, "Expresso 2222", um grande sucesso que daria nome ao disco que ele gravaria em seguida.
- published: 29 Jul 2008
- views: 207293
- author: pugaman77
3:28
Toquinho & Gilberto Gil - Tarde em Itapoã
...
published: 13 Jan 2009
author: Ana De Lois
Toquinho & Gilberto Gil - Tarde em Itapoã
- published: 13 Jan 2009
- views: 582396
- author: Ana De Lois
5:08
Gilberto Gil - Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry)
Ao vivo....
published: 03 Apr 2007
author: George Macêdo
Gilberto Gil - Não Chore Mais (No Woman, No Cry)
Ao vivo.
- published: 03 Apr 2007
- views: 1061052
- author: George Macêdo
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Gilberto Gil - Esperando na Janela
Videoclip Gilberto Gil, álbum Eu,Tu,Eles...
published: 02 Apr 2008
author: gilbertogilmusic
Gilberto Gil - Esperando na Janela
Videoclip Gilberto Gil, álbum Eu,Tu,Eles
- published: 02 Apr 2008
- views: 1059603
- author: gilbertogilmusic
4:35
Gilberto Gil - Estrela
Estrela music and Lyrics by Gilberto Gil. ........................................... Há d...
published: 08 Oct 2007
author: Duka DK
Gilberto Gil - Estrela
Estrela music and Lyrics by Gilberto Gil. ........................................... Há de surgir Uma estrela no céu Cada vez que ocê sorrir Há de apagar Uma estrela no céu Cada vez que ocê chorar O contrário também Bem que pode acontecer De uma estrela brilhar Quando a lágrima cair Ou então De uma estrela cadente se jogar Só pra ver A flor do seu sorriso se abrir Hum! Deus fará Absurdos Contanto que a vida Seja assim Sim Um altar Onde a gente celebre Tudo o que Ele consentir
- published: 08 Oct 2007
- views: 463369
- author: Duka DK
75:27
Ensaio - Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil é o convidado de Fernando Faro deste Ensaio especial. No programa, Gil relemb...
published: 06 Jun 2012
author: cultura
Ensaio - Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil é o convidado de Fernando Faro deste Ensaio especial. No programa, Gil relembra de sua infância em Ituaçu, interior da Bahia; da relação com os pais José Gil e Claudina; das músicas que ouvia quando criança. O músico fala sobre muitas composições como "Roda", "Louvação" e "Procissão", aproveitando para contar como foram compostas e em que circunstâncias. A partir daí, lembra de seus parceiros, como Torquato Neto, João Augusto e Capinan; cantarola trechos de grandes músicas como "Zabelê" e "Lunik 9". Confessa sua paixão por Elis Regina, intérprete de grandes músicas que Gil lembra no Ensaio, dentre elas "Amor Até o Fim", "Meio de Campo" e "Doente Morena". Da parceria com Chico Buarque, Gil fala sobre o clássico "Cálice"; das composições com João Donato, lembra de "Bananeira", "Lugar Comum", "Emoriô" e "A Paz". De sua relação com Caetano, fala da música que compôs em Londres para o parceiro, "Ele e Eu", e das diferenças de personalidade entre eles. Gil não deixa de homenagear os Filhos de Gandhy, com quem sai todos os anos no carnaval da Bahia.
- published: 06 Jun 2012
- views: 6850
- author: cultura
4:45
Gilberto Gil - Realce
Good tune from GIlberto Gil, comment and enjoooy.. ;)...
published: 11 Sep 2009
author: odominguez
Gilberto Gil - Realce
Good tune from GIlberto Gil, comment and enjoooy.. ;)
- published: 11 Sep 2009
- views: 145513
- author: odominguez
photo: AP / Mohamed Sheikh Nor
12 Jan 2013
Helicopter raid fails to rescue agent 'Denis Allex' from Islamist group al-Shabaab, as French combat pilot killed in Mali. French secret service hostage 'Denis Allex' pictured in Somalia in October 2012. Photograph. SITE Monitoring Service/AFP/Getty Images. A French hostage and two French soldiers have been killed during a failed secret service rescue mission in Somalia ... The group said it had also captured a wounded French commando ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)
photo: AP / Adj Nicolas-Nelson Richard, ECPAD
14 Jan 2013
Bamako/Paris - French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the capital, Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al-Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north ... Defence Minister Jean-Yves le Drian said France’s intervention on Friday prevented the advancing rebels from seizing Bamako and vowed air strikes would continue ... – ... Doubt....(size: 6.6Kb)
photo: AP / Kevin Frayer
14 Jan 2013
Allahabad. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims led by naked, ash-covered holy men streamed into the sacred river Ganges on Monday at the start of the world's biggest religious festival. The Kumbh Mela in the Indian town of Allahabad will see up to 100 million worshippers gather over the next 55 days to take a ritual bath in the holy waters, believed to cleanse sins and bestow blessings ... "I am ecstatic ... Agence France-Presse ....(size: 4.2Kb)
photo: US Navy / MCS2 Gretchen Albrecht
13 Jan 2013
The draft version of the US National Climate Assessment, released on Friday, makes remarkable reading – not just for Americans but for all humanity. Put together by a special panel of more than 240 scientists, the federally commissioned report reveals that the US is already reeling under the impact of global warming ... Nor is there any doubt about the cause of these rising temperatures ... A bitter struggle lies ahead ... Sender's name ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
photo: White House / Pete Souza
14 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama issued a strong warning to Republicans on Monday that he will not negotiate over the debt ceiling or allow Republicans to use it as a bargaining chip. "To even entertain the idea of the United States of America not paying our bills is irresponsible. It's absurd," Obama said in a press conference ... "They will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the economy," Obama said ... Also on HuffPost ... ....(size: 10.3Kb)
Chicago Tribune
11 Jan 2013
GENEVA (Reuters) - Claude Nobs, who founded the Montreux Jazz Festival nearly 50 years ago, has died after several weeks in a coma following a skiing accident, the festival said on Friday ... But he often had to meet their whims to coax them along ... Herbie Hancock, Van Morrison, Phil Collins and Gilberto Gil have all been regulars at the festival, whose two venues are the larger Stravinski Auditorium and more intimate Miles Davis Hall ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
LA Weekly
10 Jan 2013
The program features works from composers including Ivan Lins and Gilberto Gil, but will also vary from traditional bossa nova or samba styles ... Price....(size: 1.1Kb)
Wall Street Journal
08 Jan 2013
By LAWRENCE LESSIG. It has been a decade since lawyers and technologists formed the nonprofit corporation Creative Commons to help artists and authors share their work with each other and the world ... Creative Commons began in the U.S ... Brazil's minister of culture, the musician Gilberto Gil, embraced Creative Commons as a symbol of the new flexibility that he thought copyright law should have. Enlarge Image. Close ... Mr ... But Mr ... Mr ... Mr ... ....(size: 5.0Kb)
The Guardian
01 Jan 2013
In 1968, when the military restricted civil liberties, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Os Mutantes released the album Tropicália ou Panis et Circenses (Bread and Circuses), a musical protest manifesto ... As for Santtana, his family's musical background drew on a web of influences involving such as Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. He played with Gil, then with Veloso's son, Moreno....(size: 8.3Kb)
The Examiner
01 Jan 2013
As we blow out the candles on Nashville 2012 and wish for an even brighter 2013, we look back in thanks at a year of community events of service, artistic expression and dire dialogue ... Southern Festival of Books. Photo credit. ... Music City hosted musical legends, like Brazilian Gilberto Gil, and literary stars, like Junot Diaz, Pulitzer-Prize winning Dominican-American author who spoke at The Southern Festival of Books ... I agree ... ....(size: 11.2Kb)
The Guardian
30 Dec 2012
Or catch AnDa Union's traditional Mongolian songs and Miles Davis favourite Ahmad Jamal tickle the ivories. Rousing Balkan Gypsy brass … Fanfare Ciocarlia. Photograph ... Fanfare Ciocarlia ... Nascimento, an artist with a dazzling tonal range and a lyricist's imagination to match, has worked with stars from Wayne Shorter to Paul Simon and Duran Duran, and stands alongside Jobim and Gilberto Gil as one of Brazil's greatest troubadours ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
All About Jazz
27 Dec 2012
Gilberto Gil ... It is a rare opportunity to see an international icon perform, so singer Gilberto Gil's recent appearance in Oakland, CA's gorgeous Paramount Theater—part of the San Francisco International Jazz Festival—was quite the event ... He's come a long way since then, although Gil's rise to international superstardom has, at times, been rocky....(size: 3.9Kb)
Newstrack India
27 Dec 2012
Rio de Janeiro, Dec 27 (IANS/EFE) American pop star Stevie Wonder and Brazilian singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil filled Copacabana Beach with music during a seaside concert that attracted some 400,000 people, police said ... Wonder was preceded by Gilberto Gil, who gave a touch of reggae and Brazilian pop music to the night before Christmas, and who also ......(size: 2.1Kb)
The Times of India
27 Dec 2012
American pop star Stevie Wonder and Brazilian singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil filled Copacabana Beach with music during a seaside concert that attracted some 400,000 people, police said....(size: 1.1Kb)
The Los Angeles Times
21 Dec 2012
The story may be apocryphal, but according to legend (i.e. Wikipedia) the jazz pianist John Beasley put together his first drum kit at age 2, using kitchen pots and pans ... So take note, jazz historians ... On Jan. 9, he'll pair up with singer Dwight Trible; on Jan. 16, he'll jam with bassist Carlos del Puerto and drummer Gary Novak in a tribute to Brazilian icons such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Chico Buarque; and on Jan ... ALSO. ... ....(size: 30.4Kb)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
20 Dec 2012
1. Kurt Elling (May 13, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild). This tour marked the 50th anniversary of benefit concerts that Frank Sinatra sponsored, and Mr. Elling and his quartet were in fine form throughout in paying him tribute. He had the rep as one of today's great jazz singers, and that night I learned why. 2. Esperanza Spalding (Oct. 5, Byham Theater). A very, very close second ... 3 ... 7, MCG) ... 4 ... Gilberto Gil (Nov ... Gil's performance....(size: 3.8Kb)
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| Born | Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (1942-06-26) June 26, 1942 (age 70) Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
| Education | BBA, Universidade Federal da Bahia |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Political party | Partido Verde |
| Website | |
| http://www.gilbertogil.com.br/ | |
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiɫˈbɛʁtu ʒiɫ]) or (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiu̯ˈbɛɾtʊ ʒiu̯]), is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment. 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 music, Brazilian genres including samba, African music, and reggae.
Gil started to play music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band. He began his career as a bossa nova musician, and then 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. Gil moved to London, but returned to state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate.
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Biography[link]
Early years (1942–1963)[link]
Gil was born in Salvador, an industrial city in the northeast of Brazil, though he spent much of his childhood in nearby Ituaçu. Ituaçu was a small town of fewer than a thousand, located in the sertão, or countryside, of Bahia.[1] His father, José Gil Moreira, was a doctor; his mother, Claudina Passos Gil Moreira, an elementary school teacher.[1][2] As a young boy, he attended a Marist Brothers school.[3] Gil remained in Ituaçu until he was nine years old, returning to Salvador for secondary school.
Gil's interest in music was precocious: "When I was only two or two and a half," he recalled, "I told my mother I was going to become a musician or a president of my country."[4] He grew up listening to the forró music of his native northeast,[2] and took an interest in the street performers of Salvador.[5] Early on, he began to play the drums and the trumpet, through listening to Bob Nelson on the radio.[6] Gil's mother was the "chief supporter" in his musical ambitions; she bought him an accordion and, when he was ten years old, sent him to music school in Salvador which he attended for four years.[1][4] As an accordionist, Gil first played classical music, but grew more interested in the folk and popular music of Brazil.[1] He was particularly influenced by singer and accordion player Luiz Gonzaga; he began to sing and play the accordion in an emulation of Gonzaga's recordings.[7] Gil has noted that he grew to identify with Gonzaga "because he sang about the world around [him], the world that [he] encountered."[8]
During his years in Salvador, Gil also encountered the music of songwriter Dorival Caymmi, who he says represented to him the "beach-oriented" samba music of Salvador.[8] Gonzaga and Caymmi were Gil's formative influences.[1] While in Salvador, Gil was introduced to many other styles of music, including American big band jazz and tango.[8] In 1950 Gil moved back to Salvador with his family. It was there, while still in high school, that he joined his first band, Os Desafinados (The Out of Tunes), in which he played accordion and vibraphone and sang.[1] Os Desafinados was influenced by American rock and roll musicians like Elvis Presley, as well as singing groups from Rio de Janeiro.[1] The band was active for two to three years. Soon afterwards, inspired by Brazilian star João Gilberto, he settled on the guitar as his primary instrument and began to play bossa nova.[5]
Musical career (1963–present)[link]
Gil met guitarist and singer Caetano Veloso at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (Federal University of Bahia) in 1963. The two immediately began collaborating and performing together, releasing a single and EP soon afterwards.[2] Along with Maria Bethânia (Veloso's sister), Gal Costa, and Tom Zé, Gil and Veloso performed bossa nova and traditional Brazilian songs at the Vila Velha Theatre's opening night in July 1964, a show entitled Nós, por Exemplo (Us, for Example).[6] Gil and the group continued to perform at the venue and he eventually became a musical director of the concert series.[9] Gil collaborated again with members of this collective on the landmark 1968 album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses, whose style was influenced by The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album Gil listened to constantly.[10] Gil describes Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses as the birth of the tropicália movement.[1] As Gil describes it, tropicália (or Tropicalismo) was a conflation of musical and cultural developments that had occurred in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s—primarily bossa nova and the Jovem Guarda (Young Wave) collective—with rock and roll music from the United States and Europe, a movement deemed threatening by the Brazilian government of the time.[11]
Early on in the 1960s, Gil earned income primarily from selling bananas in a shopping mall and trying composing jingles for television advertisements;[5] he was also briefly employed by the Brazilian division of Unilever, Gessy-Lever.[6] He moved to São Paulo in 1965 and had a hit single when his song "Louvação" (which later appeared on the album of the same name) was released by Elis Regina. However, his first hit as a solo artist was the 1969 song "Aquele Abraço".[5] Gil also performed in several television programs throughout the 1960s, which often included other "tropicalistas", members of the Tropicalismo movement.[6] One of these programs, Divina Maravilhoso, which featured Veloso, gained attention from government television censors after it aired a satirical version of the national anthem in December 1968.[12]
In February 1969 Gil and Veloso were arrested by the Brazilian military government, brought from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, and spent three months in prison and another four under house arrest,[1][11] before being freed on the condition that they leave the country. Veloso was the first to be arrested; the police moved to Gil's home soon afterward. Veloso had directed his then-wife Andréa Gadelha to warn Gil about the possibility of arrest, but Gil was eventually brought into the police van along with Veloso.[13] They were given no reason or charge for their arrest.[1] Gil believes that the government felt his actions "represent[ed] a threat [to them], something new, something that can't quite be understood, something that doesn't fit into any of the clear compartments of existing cultural practices, and that won't do. That is dangerous."[14] During his prison sentence, Gil began to meditate, follow a macrobiotic diet, and read about Eastern philosophy.[2] He composed four songs during his imprisonment, among them "Cérebro Electrônico" (Electronic Brain), which first appeared on his 1969 album Gilberto Gil 1969, and later on his 2006 album Gil Luminoso.[15] Thereafter, Gil and Veloso were exiled to London, England after being offered to leave Brazil.[16] The two played a last Brazilian concert together in Salvador in July 1969, then left to Portugal, Paris, and finally London.[1] He and Veloso took a house in Chelsea, sharing it with their manager and wives.[17] Gil was involved in the organisation of the 1971 Glastonbury Free Festival[17] and was exposed to reggae while living in London; he recalls listening to Bob Marley (whose songs he later covered), Jimmy Cliff, and Burning Spear.[1] He was heavily influenced by and involved with the city's rock scene as well, performing with Yes, Pink Floyd, and the Incredible String Band.[1][5] However, he also performed solo, recording Gilberto Gil (Nêga) while in London. In addition to involvement in the reggae and rock scenes, Gil attended performances by jazz artists, including Miles Davis and Sun Ra.[1]
When he went back to Bahia in 1972, Gil focused on his musical career and environmental advocacy work.[18] He released Expresso 2222 the same year, from which two popular singles were released. Gil toured the United States and recorded an English-language album as well, continuing to release a steady stream of albums throughout the 1970s, including Realce and Refazenda. In the early 1970s Gil participated in a resurgence of the Afro-Brazilian afoxé tradition in Carnaval, joining the Filhos de Gandhi (Sons of Gandhi) performance group,[19] which only allowed black Brazilians to join.[20] Gil also recorded a song titled "Patuscada de Gandhi" written about the Filhos de Gandhi that appeared on his 1977 album Refavela. Greater attention was paid to afoxé groups in Carnaval because of the publicity that Gil had provided to them through his involvement; the groups increased in size as well.[21] In the late 1970s he left Brazil for Africa and visited Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and Nigeria. He also worked with Jimmy Cliff and released a cover of "No Woman, No Cry" with him in 1980, a number one hit that introduced reggae to Brazil.[5]
In 1996, Gil contributed "Refazenda" to the AIDS-Benefit Album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization.
In 1998 the live version of his album Quanta won Gil the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. In 2005 he won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album for Eletracústico. In May 2005 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize by Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in Stockholm,[22] the prize's first Latin American recipient. On October 16 of the same year he received the Légion d'honneur from the French government, coinciding with the Année du Brésil en France (Brazil's Year in France).[23]
In 2010 he released the album Fé Na Festa, a record devoted to forró, a style of music from Brazil's northeast. His tour to promote this album received some negative feedback from fans who were expecting to hear a set featuring his hits.[24]
Political career (1987–present)[link]
Gil describes his attitude towards politics thus: "I'd rather see my position in the government as that of an administrator or manager. But politics is a necessary ingredient."[25] His political career began in 1987, when he was elected to a local post in Bahia and became the Salvador secretary of culture.[26] In 1988, he was elected to the city council and subsequently became city commissioner for environmental protection. However, he left the office after one term and declined to run for the National Congress of Brazil.[25] In 1990, Gil left the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and joined the Green Party.[27] During this period, Gil founded the environmental protection organization Onda Azul (Blue Wave), which worked to protect Brazilian waters.[18] He maintained a full-time musical career at the same time, and withdrew temporarily from politics in 1992, following the release Parabolicamará, considered to be one of his most successful efforts.[2] On October 16, 2001 Gil accepted his nomination to be a Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, having promoted the organization before his appointment.[28]
When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2003, he chose Gil as Brazil's new Minister of Culture, only the second black person to serve in the country's cabinet. The appointment was controversial among political and artistic figures and the Brazilian press; a remark Gil made about difficulties with his salary received particular criticism.[29] Gil is not a member of Lula's Workers' Party and did not participate in creating its cultural program.[29] Shortly after becoming Minister, Gil began a partnership between Brazil and Creative Commons. As Minister, he has sponsored a program called Culture Points, which gives grants to provide music technology and education to people living in poor areas of the country's cities.[30] Gil has since asserted that "You've now got young people who are becoming designers, who are making it into media and being used more and more by television and samba schools and revitalizing degraded neighborhoods. It's a different vision of the role of government, a new role."[31] Gil has also expressed interest in a program that will establish an Internet repository of freely downloadable Brazilian music.[14] Since Gil's appointment, the department's expenditures have increased by over 50 percent.[32] In November 2007 Gil announced his intention to resign from his post due to a vocal cord polyp.[33] Lula rejected Gil's first two attempts to resign, but accepted another request in July 2008. Lula said on this occasion that Gil was "going back to being a great artist, going back to giving priority to what is most important" to him.[34]
Personal life[link]
Gil has been married four times. His fourth wife is Flora Nair Giordano Gil Moreira. The couple has five children, four of whom are still living. The fifth child – Pedro Gil, Egotrip's drummer – died in a car accident in 1990.[35] Preta Gil, an actress and singer, is his daughter.
Gil's religious beliefs have changed significantly over his lifetime. Originally, he was a Christian, but was later influenced by Eastern philosophy and religion, and, later still, explored African spirituality. He is now an agnostic.[35] He practices yoga and is a vegetarian.[11]
Gil has been open about the fact that he has smoked marijuana for much of his life. He has said he believes "that drugs should be treated like pharmaceuticals, legalized, although under the same regulations and monitoring as medicines".[36]
Musical style and influences[link]
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Gil recorded "Oslodum" for the 2004 compilation album The Wired CD, an album composed of songs licensed under the Creative Commons. The song is heavily influenced by samba, a major element of Gil's style.
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Gil sings in the baritone or falsetto register, with lyrics and/or scat syllables. His lyrics are on subjects that range from philosophy to religion, folktales, and word play.[37] Gil's musical style incorporates a broad range of influences. The first music he was exposed to included The Beatles and street performers in various metropolitan areas of Bahia. During his first years as a musician, Gil performed primarily in a blend of traditional Brazilian styles with two-step rhythms, such as baião and samba.[4] He states that "My first phase was one of traditional forms. Nothing experimental at all. Caetano [Veloso] and I followed in the tradition of Luiz Gonzaga and Jackson do Pandeiro, combining samba with northeastern music."[4]
As one of the pioneers of tropicália, influences from genres such as rock and punk have been pervasive in his recordings, as they have been in those of other stars of the period, including Caetano Veloso and Tom Zé. Gil's interest in the blues-based music of rock pioneer Jimi Hendrix, in particular, has been described by Veloso as having "extremely important consequences for Brazilian music".[38] Veloso also noted the influence of Brazilian guitarist and singer Jorge Ben on Gil's musical style, coupled with that of traditional music.[38] After the height of tropicália in the 1960s, Gil became increasingly interested in black culture, particularly in the Jamaican musical genre of reggae. He described the genre as "a form of democratizing, internationalizing, speaking a new language, a Heideggerian form of passing along fundamental messages".[39]
Visiting Lagos, Nigeria, in 1976 for the Festival of African Culture (FESTAC), Gil met fellow musicians Fela Kuti and Stevie Wonder.[1] He became inspired by African music and later integrated some of the styles he had heard in Africa, such as juju and highlife, into his own recordings.[40] One of the most famous of these African-influenced records was the 1977 album Refavela, which included "No Norte da Saudade" (To the North of Sadness), a song heavily influenced by reggae.[41] When Gil returned to Brazil after the visit, he focused on Afro-Brazilian culture, becoming a member of the Carnaval afoxé group Filhos de Gandhi.
Conversely, his 1980s musical repertoire presented an increased development of dance trends, such as disco and soul, as well as the previous incorporation of rock and punk.[39] However, Gil says that his 1994 album Acoustic was not such a new direction, as he had previously performed unplugged with Caetano Veloso. He describes the method of playing as easier than other types of performance, as the energy of acoustic playing is simple and influenced by its roots.[42] Gil has been criticized for a conflicting involvement in both authentic Brazilian music and the worldwide musical arena. He has had to walk a fine line, simultaneously remaining true to traditional Bahian styles and engaging with commercial markets. Listeners in Bahia have been much more accepting of his blend of music styles, while those in southeast Brazil felt at odds with it.[39]
Discography[link]
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Awards, nominations, and positions[link]
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| 1981 | N/A | Anchieta Medal—São Paulo City Council | Won |
| 1986 | N/A | The Gold Dolphin—Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro | Won |
| 1990 | N/A | Ordre des Arts et des Lettres—Ministry of Culture of France | Won |
| 1990 | N/A | Commendator of the Rio Branco Order | Won |
| 1997 | N/A | Ordre national du Mérite | Won |
| 1999 | Quanta Live | Grammy Award—Best World Music Album | Won |
| 1999 | N/A | Order of Cultural Merit—Ministry of Culture | Won |
| 1999 | N/A | UNESCO Artist for Peace—United Nations | Won |
| 2001 | Eu Tu Eles | Cinema Brazil Grand Prize—Best Music | Nominated |
| 2001 | As Canções De Eu, Tu, Eles | Latin Grammy Award—Brazilian Roots/Regional Album | Won |
| 2001 | N/A | Goodwill Ambassador—Food and Agriculture Organization | Won |
| 2002 | Viva São João! | Passista Trophy—Long Documentary - Best Score | Won |
| 2002 | São João Vivo | Latin Grammy Award—Best Brazilian Roots/Regional Album | Won |
| 2005 | Eletracústico | Grammy Award—Best Contemporary World Music Album | Won |
| 2005 | N/A | Polar Music Prize | Won |
| 2005 | N/A | Légion d'honneur | Won |
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Francisco Weffort |
Minister of Culture of Brazil 2003–2008 |
Succeeded by Juca Ferreira |
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| Name | Gil, Gilberto |
| Alternative names | Moreira, Gilberto Passos Gil |
| Short description | Brazilian Minister of Culture, guitarist, singer, songwriter |
| Date of birth | June 26, 1942 |
| Place of birth | Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
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| Bob Marley | |
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 Bob Marley performing in concert, circa 1980. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Robert Nesta Marley |
| Also known as | Tuff Gong |
| Born | (1945-02-06)6 February 1945 Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica |
| Died | 11 May 1981(1981-05-11) (aged 36) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Genres | Reggae, ska, rocksteady |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, saxophone, harmonica, percussion |
| Years active | 1962–1981 |
| Labels | Studio One, Upsetter, Tuff Gong |
| Associated acts | Bob Marley & The Wailers, Wailers Band, The Upsetters, I Threes |
| Website | bobmarley.com |
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.[1]
Marley's music was heavily influenced by the social issues of his homeland, and he is considered to have given voice to the specific political and cultural nexus of Jamaica.[2] His best-known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Get Up Stand Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, "Three Little Birds",[3] as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, going ten times Platinum which is also known as one Diamond in the U.S.,[4] and selling 25 million copies worldwide.[5][6]
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Early life and career[link]
Bob Marley was born in the village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley.[7] A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names.[8] His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a white Jamaican of mixed and English descent whose family came from Sussex, England. Norval was a captain in the Royal Marines,[citation needed] as well as a plantation overseer, when he married Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old.[9] Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them, as he was often away on trips. In 1955, when Bob Marley was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack at age 70.[10] Marley faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected:
I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't deh pon nobody's side. Me don't deh pon the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me deh pon God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.[11]
Although Marley recognised his mixed ancestry, throughout his life and because of his beliefs, he self-identified as a black African, following the ideas of Pan-African leaders. Marley stated that his two biggest influences were the African-centered Marcus Garvey and Haile Selassie. A central theme in Bob Marley's message was the repatriation of black people to Zion, which in his view was Ethiopia, or more generally, Africa.[12] In songs such as "Black Survivor", "Babylon System", and "Blackman Redemption", Marley sings about the struggles of blacks and Africans against oppression from the West or "Babylon".[13]
Marley and his step brother Bunny Wailer (Bob's mother had a daughter with Bunny's father, younger sister to both of them) started to play music while he was still at school, which he left at the age of 14 to make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari. At a jam session with Higgs and Livingston, Marley met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh), who had similar musical ambitions.[14] In 1962, Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong. These songs, released on the Beverley's label under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell,[15] attracted little attention. The songs were later re-released on the box set Songs of Freedom, a posthumous collection of Marley's work. Marley was also known to use an Epiphone guitar for much of his career.
Bob Marley & The Wailers[link]
Main article: Bob Marley & The Wailers
1963–1974[link]
In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith formed a ska and rocksteady group, calling themselves "The Teenagers". They later changed their name to "The Wailing Rudeboys", then to "The Wailing Wailers", at which point they were discovered by record producer Coxsone Dodd, and finally to "The Wailers". By 1966, Braithwaite, Kelso, and Smith had left The Wailers, leaving the core trio of Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh.[16]
In 1966, Marley married Rita Anderson, and moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant, under the alias Donald Marley.[17]
Though raised in the Catholic tradition, Marley became captivated by Rastafarian beliefs in the 1960s, when away from his mother's influence.[18] Formally converted to Rastafari after returning to Jamaica, Marley began to wear his trademark dreadlocks (see the religion section for more on Marley's religious views). After a conflict with Dodd, Marley and his band teamed up with Lee "Scratch" Perry and his studio band, The Upsetters. Although the alliance lasted less than a year, they recorded what many consider The Wailers' finest work. Marley and Perry split after a dispute regarding the assignment of recording rights, but they would remain friends and work together again.
Between 1968 and 1972, Bob and Rita Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer re-cut some old tracks with JAD Records in Kingston and London in an attempt to commercialise The Wailers' sound. Bunny later asserted that these songs "should never be released on an album ... they were just demos for record companies to listen to". Also in 1968, Bob and Rita visited the Bronx to see Johnny Nash's songwriter Jimmy Norman.[21] A three-day jam session with Norman and others, including Norman's co-writer Al Pyfrom, resulted in a 24-minute tape of Marley performing several of his own and Norman-Pyfrom's compositions. This tape is, according to Reggae archivist Roger Steffens, rare in that it was influenced by pop rather than reggae, as part of an effort to break Marley into the American charts.[21] According to an article in The New York Times, Marley experimented on the tape with different sounds, adopting a doo-wop style on "Stay With Me" and "the slow love song style of 1960's artists" on "Splish for My Splash".[21] An artist yet to establish himself outside his native Jamaica, Marley lived in Ridgmount Gardens, Bloomsbury, London during 1972.[19][20]
In 1972, the Wailers entered into an ill-fated deal with CBS Records and embarked on a tour with American soul singer Johnny Nash. Broke, the Wailers became stranded in London. Marley turned up at Island Records founder and producer Chris Blackwell's London office, and asked him to advance the cost of a new single. Since Jimmy Cliff, Island's top reggae star, had recently left the label, Blackwell was primed for a replacement. In Marley, Blackwell recognized the elements needed to snare the rock audience: "I was dealing with rock music, which was really rebel music. I felt that would really be the way to break Jamaican music. But you needed someone who could be that image. When Bob walked in he really was that image."[22] Blackwell told Marley he wanted The Wailers to record a complete album (essentially unheard of at the time). When Marley told him it would take between £3,000 and £4,000, Blackwell trusted him with the greater sum. Despite their "rude boy" reputation, the Wailers returned to Kingston and honored the deal, delivering the album Catch A Fire.
Primarily recorded on eight-track at Harry J's in Kingston, Catch A Fire marked the first time a reggae band had access to a state-of-the-art studio and were accorded the same care as their rock'n'roll peers.[22] Blackwell desired to create "more of a drifting, hypnotic-type feel than a reggae rhythm",[23] and restructured Marley's mixes and arrangements. Marley travelled to London to supervise Blackwell's overdubbing of the album, which included tempering the mix from the bass-heavy sound of Jamaican music, and omitting two tracks.[22]
The Wailers' first major label album, Catch a Fire was released worldwide in April 1973, packaged like a rock record with a unique Zippo lighter lift-top. Initially selling 14,000 units, it didn't make Marley a star, but received a positive critical reception.[22] It was followed later that year by Burnin', which included the standout songs "Get Up, Stand Up", and "I Shot the Sheriff", which appealed to the ear of Eric Clapton. He recorded a cover of the track in 1974 which became a huge American hit, raising Marley's international profile.[24] Many Jamaicans were not keen on the new "improved" reggae sound on Catch A Fire, but the Trenchtown style of Burnin' found fans across both reggae and rock audiences.[22]
During this period, Blackwell gifted his Kingston residence and company headquarters at 56 Hope Road (then known as Island House) to Marley. Housing Tuff Gong Studios, the property became not only Marley's office, but also his home.[22]
The Wailers were scheduled to open 17 shows for the number one black act in the States, Sly and the Family Stone. After 4 shows, the band was fired because they were more popular than the acts they were opening for.[25] The Wailers broke up in 1974 with each of the three main members pursuing solo careers. The reason for the breakup is shrouded in conjecture; some believe that there were disagreements amongst Bunny, Peter, and Bob concerning performances, while others claim that Bunny and Peter simply preferred solo work.
1974–1981[link]
Despite the break-up, Marley continued recording as "Bob Marley & The Wailers". His new backing band included brothers Carlton and Aston "Family Man" Barrett on drums and bass respectively, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl "Wya" Lindo on keyboards, and Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on percussion. The "I Threes", consisting of Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, and Marley's wife, Rita, provided backing vocals. In 1975, Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, "No Woman, No Cry", from the Natty Dread album. This was followed by his breakthrough album in the United States, Rastaman Vibration (1976), which spent four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.[26] On 3 December 1976, two days before "Smile Jamaica", a free concert organised by the Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley in an attempt to ease tension between two warring political groups, Marley, his wife, and manager Don Taylor were wounded in an assault by unknown gunmen inside Marley's home. Taylor and Marley's wife sustained serious injuries, but later made full recoveries. Bob Marley received minor wounds in the chest and arm.[27] The shooting was thought to have been politically motivated, as many felt the concert was really a support rally for Manley. Nonetheless, the concert proceeded, and an injured Marley performed as scheduled, two days after the attempt. When asked why, Marley responded, "The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?" The members of the group Zap Pow, which had no radical religious or political beliefs, played as Bob Marley's backup band before a festival crowd of 80,000 while members of The Wailers were still missing or in hiding.[28][29]
Marley left Jamaica at the end of 1976, and after a month-long "recovery and writing" sojourn at the site of Chris Blackwell's Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, arrived in England, where he spent two years in self-imposed exile. Whilst there he recorded the albums Exodus and Kaya. Exodus stayed on the British album charts for 56 consecutive weeks. It included four UK hit singles: "Exodus", "Waiting in Vain", "Jamming", and "One Love" (a rendition of Curtis Mayfield's hit, "People Get Ready"). During his time in London, he was arrested and received a conviction for possession of a small quantity of cannabis.[30] In 1978, Marley returned to Jamaica and performed at another political concert, the One Love Peace Concert, again in an effort to calm warring parties. Near the end of the performance, by Marley's request, Michael Manley (leader of then-ruling People's National Party) and his political rival Edward Seaga (leader of the opposing Jamaica Labour Party), joined each other on stage and shook hands.[31]
Under the name Bob Marley and the Wailers eleven albums were released, four live albums and seven studio albums. The releases included Babylon by Bus, a double live album with thirteen tracks, were released in 1978 and received critical acclaim. This album, and specifically the final track "Jamming" with the audience in a frenzy, captured the intensity of Marley's live performances.[32]
"Marley wasn’t singing about how peace could come easily to the World but rather how hell on Earth comes too easily to too many. His songs were his memories; he had lived with the wretched, he had seen the downpressers and those whom they pressed down."
Survival, a defiant and politically charged album, was released in 1979. Tracks such as "Zimbabwe", "Africa Unite", "Wake Up and Live", and "Survival" reflected Marley's support for the struggles of Africans. His appearance at the Amandla Festival in Boston in July 1979 showed his strong opposition to South African apartheid, which he already had shown in his song "War" in 1976. In early 1980, he was invited to perform at the 17 April celebration of Zimbabwe's Independence Day. Uprising (1980) was Bob Marley's final studio album, and is one of his most religious productions; it includes "Redemption Song" and "Forever Loving Jah".[34] Confrontation, released posthumously in 1983, contained unreleased material recorded during Marley's lifetime, including the hit "Buffalo Soldier" and new mixes of singles previously only available in Jamaica.[35]
Personal life[link]
Religion[link]
| Main doctrines | |
| Jah · Afrocentrism · Ital · Zion · Cannabis use | |
| Central figures | |
| Haile Selassie I · Jesus · Menen Asfaw · Marcus Garvey | |
| Key scriptures | |
| Bible · Kebra Nagast · The Promise Key · Holy Piby · My Life and Ethiopia's Progress · Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy | |
| Branches and festivals | |
| Mansions · in United States · Shashamane · Grounation Day · Reasoning | |
| Notable individuals | |
| Leonard Howell · Joseph Hibbert · Mortimer Planno · Vernon Carrington · Charles Edwards · Bob Marley · Peter Tosh | |
| See also: | |
| Vocabulary · Persecution · Dreadlocks · Reggae · Ethiopian Christianity · Index of Rastafari articles
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Bob Marley was a member of the Rastafari movement, whose culture was a key element in the development of reggae. Bob Marley became an ardent proponent of Rastafari, taking their music out of the socially deprived areas of Jamaica and onto the international music scene. He once gave the following response, which was typical, to a question put to him during a recorded interview:
- Interviewer: "Can you tell the people what it means being a Rastafarian?"
- Bob: "I would say to the people, Be still, and know that His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is the Almighty. Now, the Bible seh so, Babylon newspaper seh so, and I and I the children seh so. Yunno? So I don't see how much more reveal our people want. Wha' dem want? a white God, well God come black. True true."[36]
Observant of the Rastafari practice Ital, a diet that shuns meat, Marley was a vegetarian.[37] According to his biographers, he affiliated with the Twelve Tribes Mansion. He was in the denomination known as "Tribe of Joseph", because he was born in February (each of the twelve sects being composed of members born in a different month). He signified this in his album liner notes, quoting the portion from Genesis that includes Jacob's blessing to his son Joseph. Marley was baptised by the Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Kingston, Jamaica, on 4 November 1980.[38][39]
Family[link]
Bob Marley had a number of children: three with his wife Rita, two adopted from Rita's previous relationships, and several others with different women. The Bob Marley official website acknowledges eleven children.
Those listed on the official site are:
- Sharon, born 23 November 1964, to Rita in previous relationship
- Cedella born 23 August 1967, to Rita
- David "Ziggy", born 17 October 1968, to Rita
- Stephen, born 20 April 1972, to Rita
- Robert "Robbie", born 16 May 1972, to Pat Williams
- Rohan, born 19 May 1972, to Janet Hunt
- Karen, born 1973 to Janet Bowen
- Stephanie, born 17 August 1974; according to Cedella Booker she was the daughter of Rita and a man called Ital with whom Rita had an affair; nonetheless she was acknowledged as Bob's daughter
- Julian, born 4 June 1975, to Lucy Pounder
- Ky-Mani, born 26 February 1976, to Anita Belnavis
- Damian, born 21 July 1978, to Cindy Breakspeare
Makeda was born on 30 May 1981, to Yvette Crichton, after Marley's death.[40] Meredith Dixon's book lists her as Marley's child, but she is not listed as such on the Bob Marley official website.
Various websites, for example,[41] also list Imani Carole, born 22 May 1963 to Cheryl Murray; but she does not appear on the official Bob Marley website.[40]
Final years and death[link]
In July 1977, Marley was found to have a type of malignant melanoma under the nail of one of his toes. Contrary to urban legend, this lesion was not primarily caused by an injury during a football match in that year, but was instead a symptom of the already existing cancer. Marley turned down doctors' advice to have his toe amputated, citing his religious beliefs.[42] Despite his illness, he continued touring and was in the process of scheduling a world tour in 1980. The intention was for Inner Circle to be his opening act on the tour but after their lead singer Jacob Miller died in Jamaica in March 1980 after returning from a scouting mission in Brazil this was no longer mentioned.[43]
The album Uprising was released in May 1980 (produced by Chris Blackwell), on which "Redemption Song" is particularly considered to be about Marley coming to terms with his mortality.[citation needed] The band completed a major tour of Europe, where they played their biggest concert, to a hundred thousand people in Milan. After the tour Marley went to America, where he performed two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of the Uprising Tour.
The final concert of Bob Marley's career was held 23 September 1980 at the Stanley Theater (now called The Benedum Center For The Performing Arts) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The audio recording of that concert is now available on CD, vinyl, and digital music services.
Shortly after, Marley's health deteriorated and he became very ill; the cancer had spread throughout his body. The rest of the tour was cancelled and Marley sought treatment at the Bavarian clinic of Josef Issels, where he received a controversial type of cancer therapy (Issels treatment) partly based on avoidance of certain foods, drinks, and other substances. After fighting the cancer without success for eight months, Marley boarded a plane for his home in Jamaica.[44]
While flying home from Germany to Jamaica, Marley's vital functions worsened. After landing in Miami, Florida, he was taken to the hospital for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami (now University of Miami Hospital) on the morning of 11 May 1981, at the age of 36. The spread of melanoma to his lungs and brain caused his death. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life".[45] Marley received a state funeral in Jamaica on 21 May 1981, which combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafari tradition.[46] He was buried in a chapel near his birthplace with his red Gibson Les Paul (some accounts say it was a Fender Stratocaster).[47]
On 21 May 1981, Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga delivered the final funeral eulogy to Marley, declaring:
His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.[48]
Legacy[link]
Bob Marley was the Third World's first pop superstar. He was the man who introduced the world to the mystic power of reggae. He was a true rocker at heart, and as a songwriter, he brought the lyrical force of Bob Dylan, the personal charisma of John Lennon, and the essential vocal stylings of Smokey Robinson into one voice.
In 1999 Time magazine chose Bob Marley & The Wailers' Exodus as the greatest album of the 20th century.[50] In 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a feature-length documentary about his life, Rebel Music, won various awards at the Grammys. With contributions from Rita, The Wailers, and Marley's lovers and children, it also tells much of the story in his own words.[51] A statue was inaugurated, next to the national stadium on Arthur Wint Drive in Kingston to commemorate him. In 2006, the State of New York renamed a portion of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn "Bob Marley Boulevard".[52] In 2008, a statue of Marley was inaugurated in Banatski Sokolac, Serbia.[53]
Internationally, Marley’s message also continues to reverberate amongst various indigenous communities. For instance, the Aboriginal people of Australia continue to burn a sacred flame to honor his memory in Sydney’s Victoria Park, while members of the Native American Hopi and Havasupai tribe revere his work.[54] There are also many tributes to Bob Marley throughout India, including restaurants, hotels, and cultural festivals.[55][56]
Marley has also evolved into a global symbol, which has been endlessly merchandised through a variety of mediums. In light of this, author Dave Thompson in his book Reggae and Caribbean Music, laments what he perceives to be the commercialized pacification of Marley's more militant edge, stating:
Bob Marley ranks among both the most popular and the most misunderstood figures in modern culture ... That the machine has utterly emasculated Marley is beyond doubt. Gone from the public record is the ghetto kid who dreamed of Che Guevara and the Black Panthers, and pinned their posters up in the Wailers Soul Shack record store; who believed in freedom; and the fighting which it necessitated, and dressed the part on an early album sleeve; whose heroes were James Brown and Muhammad Ali; whose God was Ras Tafari and whose sacrament was marijuana. Instead, the Bob Marley who surveys his kingdom today is smiling benevolence, a shining sun, a waving palm tree, and a string of hits which tumble out of polite radio like candy from a gumball machine. Of course it has assured his immortality. But it has also demeaned him beyond recognition. Bob Marley was worth far more.[57]
Film adaptations[link]
In February 2008, director Martin Scorsese announced his intention to produce a documentary movie on Marley. The film was set to be released on 6 February 2010, on what would have been Marley's 65th birthday.[58] However, Scorsese dropped out due to scheduling problems. He was replaced by Jonathan Demme,[59] who dropped out due to creative differences with producer Steve Bing during the beginning of editing. Kevin Macdonald replaced Demme[60] and the film, Marley, was released on 20 April 2012.
In March 2008, The Weinstein Company announced its plans to produce a biopic of Bob Marley, based on the book No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley by Rita Marley. Rudy Langlais will produce the script by Lizzie Borden and Rita Marley will be executive producer.[61]
Ex-girlfriend and filmmaker Esther Anderson, along with Gian Godoy, made the documentary Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2011.[62]
Discography[link]
Main article: Bob Marley & The Wailers discography
- The Wailing Wailers (1965)
- The Best of The Wailers (1970)
- Soul Rebels (1970)
- Soul Revolution (1971)
- Catch a Fire (1973)
- Burnin' (1973)
- Natty Dread (1974)
- Rastaman Vibration (1976)
- Exodus (1977)
- Kaya (1978)
- Survival (1979)
- Uprising (1980)
- Confrontation (1983)
Awards and honors[link]
- 1976: Band of the Year (Rolling Stone).
- June 1978: Awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations.[54]
- February 1981: Awarded Jamaica's third highest honour, the Jamaican Order of Merit.
- March 1994: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- 1999: Album of the Century for Exodus by Time Magazine.
- February 2001: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- February 2001: Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
- 2004: Rolling Stone ranked him No.11 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[63]
- "One Love" named song of the millennium by BBC.
- Voted as one of the greatest lyricists of all time by a BBC poll.[64]
- 2006: A blue plaque was unveiled at his first UK residence in Ridgmount Gardens, London, dedicated to him by Nubian Jak community trust and supported by Her Majesty's Foreign Office.[65]
- 2010: "Catch a Fire" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Reggae Album).[66]
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Further reading[link]
- Farley, Christopher (2007). Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley, Amistad Press ISBN 0-06-053992-5
- Goldman, Vivien (2006). The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century, Aurum Press ISBN 1-84513-210-6
- Henke, James (2006). Marley Legend: An Illustrated Life of Bob Marley. Tuff Gong books. ISBN 0-8118-5036-6
- Marley, Rita; Jones, Hettie (2004) No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley Hyperion Books ISBN 0-7868-8755-9
- Masouri, John (2007) Wailing Blues: The Story of Bob Marley's "Wailers" Wise Publications ISBN 1-84609-689-8
- Moskowitz, David (2007). The Words and Music of Bob Marley. Westport, Connecticut, United States: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-275-98935-6. http://books.google.com/?id=JJ4ub5h5E6sC&printsec=frontcover
- White, Timothy (2006). Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-8050-8086-4.
- Middleton, J. Richard (2000). Religion, culture, and tradition in the Caribbean: Identity and Subversion in Babylon: Strategies for "Resisting Against the System" in music of Bob Marley and the Wailers. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-23242-X
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- Official website
- Bob Marley at the Internet Movie Database
- The Bob Marley Foundation
- Online Home of the Marleys
- Bob Marley at Rolling Stone
- Marley Elected one of the Greatest Songwriters BBC News, 23 May 2001
- Showcase: Bob Marley by James Estrin, The New York Times, 18 May 2009
- Interview with Heather Marley in Bob Marley Magazine
- Extensive discography
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| Name | Marley, Bob |
| Alternative names | Marley, Robert Nesta |
| Short description | Singer, songwriter, guitarist |
| Date of birth | 6 February 1945 |
| Place of birth | Nine Miles, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica |
| Date of death | 11 May 1981 |
| Place of death | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
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| Stevie Wonder | |
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 Stevie Wonder at a conference in Salvador, Brazil, in July 2006 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Stevland Hardaway Judkins |
| Also known as | Stevland Hardaway Morris, Little Stevie Wonder, Eivets Rednow |
| Born | (1950-05-13) May 13, 1950 (age 62) Saginaw, Michigan, United States |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Genres | Soul, pop, R&B, funk, jazz |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, activist |
| Instruments | Vocals, synthesizer, piano, keyboards, harmonica, clavinet, drums, bass guitar, congas, bongos, melodica, keytar, accordion |
| Years active | 1961–present |
| Labels | Tamla, Motown |
| Website | www.steviewonder.net |
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins),[1] known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century.[2] Blind since shortly after birth,[3] Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven,[2] and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life.[2] He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States.[4] In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace.[5] In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Early life[link]
Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1950, the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Owing to his being born six weeks premature, the blood vessels at the back of his eyes had not yet reached the front and their aborted growth caused the retinas to detach.[3] The medical term for this condition is retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP, and it was exacerbated by the oxygen pumped into his incubator.[6]
When Stevie Wonder was four, his mother left his father and moved herself and her children to Detroit. She changed her name back to Lula Hardaway and later changed her son's surname to Morris, partly because of relatives. Morris has remained Stevie Wonder's legal surname ever since. He began playing instruments at an early age, including piano, harmonica, drums and bass. During childhood he was active in his church choir.
Discovery and early Motown recordings[link]
Ronnie White of The Miracles gives credit to his brother Gerald White for persistently nagging him to come to his friend's house in 1961 to check out Stevie Wonder.[7] Afterward, White brought Wonder and his mother to Motown. Impressed by the young musician, Motown CEO Berry Gordy signed Wonder to Motown's Tamla label with the name Little Stevie Wonder.[1] Before signing, producer Clarence Paul gave Wonder his trademark name after stating "we can't keep calling him the eighth wonder of the world". He then recorded the regional Detroit single, "I Call It Pretty Music, But the Old People Call It the Blues", which was released on Tamla in late 1961. Wonder released his first two albums, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie and Tribute to Uncle Ray, in 1962, to little success.
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Early success: 1963–1971[link]
By age 13, Wonder had a major hit, "Fingertips (Pt. 2)", a 1963 single taken from a live recording of a Motor Town Revue performance, issued on the album Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius. The song, featuring Wonder on vocals, bongos, and harmonica, and a young Marvin Gaye on drums, was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts, making him the youngest artist to top the former in its history and launching him into the public consciousness.
In 1964, Stevie Wonder made his film debut in Muscle Beach Party as himself, credited as "Little Stevie Wonder". He returned in the sequel released five months later, Bikini Beach. He performed on-screen in both films, singing "Happy Street," and "Happy Feelin' (Dance and Shout)," respectively.
Dropping the "Little" from his name, Wonder went on to have a number of other hits during the mid-1960s, including "Uptight (Everything's Alright)",[8] "With a Child's Heart", and "Blowin' in the Wind", a Bob Dylan cover, co-sung by his mentor, producer Clarence Paul. He also began to work in the Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his label mates, including "Tears of a Clown", a number one hit performed by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles.
In 1968 he recorded an album of instrumental soul/jazz tracks, mostly harmonica solos, under the pseudonym (and title) Eivets Rednow, which is "Stevie Wonder" spelled backwards. The album failed to get much attention, and its only single, a cover of "Alfie", only reached number 66 on the U.S. Pop charts and number 11 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary charts. Nonetheless, he managed to score several hits between 1968 and 1970 such as "I Was Made to Love Her";[8] "For Once in My Life" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours". In September 1970, at the age of 20, Wonder married Syreeta Wright, a songwriter and former Motown secretary. Wright and Wonder co-wrote the songs on the next album, Where I'm Coming From, which did not succeed in the charts. Reaching his twenty-first birthday on May 13, 1971, he allowed his Motown contract to expire.[9]
In 1970, Wonder co-wrote, and played numerous instruments on the hit "It's a Shame" for fellow Motown act The Spinners. His contribution was meant to be a showcase of his talent and thus a weapon in his ongoing negotiations with Gordy about creative autonomy.[10]
Classic period: 1972–1976[link]
Wonder independently recorded two albums, which he used as a bargaining tool while negotiating with Motown.[citation needed] Eventually the label agreed to his demands for full creative control and the rights to his own songs. The 120-page contract was a precedent at Motown and gave Wonder a much higher royalty rate.[11] Wonder returned to Motown in March 1972 with Music of My Mind. Unlike most previous albums on Motown, which usually consisted of a collection of singles, B-sides and covers, Music of My Mind was a full-length artistic statement with songs flowing together thematically.[11] Wonder's lyrics dealt with social, political, and mystical themes as well as standard romantic ones, while musically Wonder began exploring overdubbing and recording most of the instrumental parts himself.[11] Music of My Mind marked the beginning of a long collaboration with Tonto's Expanding Head Band (Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil).[12][13]
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Released in late 1972, Talking Book featured the No. 1 hit "Superstition",[14] which is one of the most distinctive and famous examples of the sound of the Hohner clavinet keyboard.[15] The song features a rocking groove that garnered Wonder an additional audience on rock radio stations.[citation needed] Talking Book also featured "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", which also peaked at No. 1. During the same time as the album's release, Stevie Wonder began touring with the Rolling Stones to alleviate the negative effects from pigeon-holing as a result of being an R&B artist in America.[7] Wonder's touring with The Rolling Stones was also a factor behind the success of both "Superstition" and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life".[11][16] Between them, the two songs won three Grammy Awards.[17] On an episode of the children's television show Sesame Street that aired in April 1973,[18] Wonder and his band performed "Superstition", as well as an original song called "Sesame Street Song", which demonstrated his abilities with the "talk box".
Innervisions, released in 1973, featured "Higher Ground" (#4 on the pop charts) as well as the trenchant "Living for the City" (#8).[14] Both songs reached No. 1 on the R&B charts. Popular ballads such as "Golden Lady" and "All in Love Is Fair" were also present, in a mixture of moods that nevertheless held together as a unified whole.[19] Innervisions generated three more Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.[17] The album is ranked #23 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[20] Wonder had become the most influential and acclaimed black musician of the early 1970s.[11]
On August 6, 1973, Wonder was in a serious automobile accident while on tour in North Carolina, when a car in which he was riding hit the back of a truck.[11][21] This left him in a coma for four days and resulted in a partial loss of his sense of smell and a temporary loss of sense of taste.[22] Despite the setback, Wonder re-appeared in concert at Madison Square Garden in March 1974 with a performance that highlighted both up-tempo material and long, building improvisations on mid-tempo songs such as "Living for the City".[11] The album Fulfillingness' First Finale appeared in July 1974 and set two hits high on the pop charts: the #1 "You Haven't Done Nothin'" and the Top Ten "Boogie On Reggae Woman". The Album of the Year was again one of three Grammys won.[17]
The same year Wonder took part in a Los Angeles jam session which would become known by the bootleg album A Toot and a Snore in '74.[23][24] He also co-wrote and produced the Syreeta Wright album Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta.[25][26]
On October 4, 1975, Wonder performed at the historical "Wonder Dream Concert" in Kingston, Jamaica, a benefit for the Jamaican Institute for the Blind.[27]
By 1975, in his 25th year, Stevie Wonder had won two consecutive Grammy Awards: in 1974 for Innervisions and in 1975 for Fulfillingness' First Finale.[citation needed] In 1975 he featured on the album It's My Pleasure by Billy Preston, playing harmonica on two tracks.[not relevant]
The double album-with-extra-EP Songs in the Key of Life, was released in September 1976. Sprawling in style, unlimited in ambition, and sometimes lyrically difficult to fathom, the album was hard for some listeners to assimilate, yet is regarded by many as Wonder's crowning achievement and one of the most recognizable and accomplished albums in pop music history.[11][14][28] The album became the first of an American artist to debut straight at #1 in the Billboard charts, where it remained for 14 non-consecutive weeks.[29] Two tracks, became #1 Pop/R&B hits "I Wish" and "Sir Duke". The baby-celebratory "Isn't She Lovely?" was written about his newborn daughter Aisha, while songs such as "Love's in Need of Love Today" (which years later Wonder would perform at the post-September 11, 2001 America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon) and "Village Ghetto Land" reflected a far more pensive mood. Songs in the Key of Life won Album of the Year and two other Grammys.[17] The album ranks 56th on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[20]
After such a concentrated and sustained level of creativity, Wonder stopped recording for three years, releasing only the 3 LP Looking Back, an anthology of his first Motown period. The albums Wonder released during this period were very influential on the music world: the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide said they "pioneered stylistic approaches that helped to determine the shape of pop music for the next decade";[14] Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included four of the five albums, with three in the top 90.[20]
Commercial period: 1979–1990[link]
It was in Wonder's next phase that he began to commercially reap the rewards of his legendary classic period. The 1980s saw Wonder scoring his biggest hits and reaching an unprecedented level of fame evidenced by increased album sales, charity participation, high-profile collaborations, political impact, and television appearances.
When Wonder did return, it was with the soundtrack album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants (1979), featured in the film The Secret Life of Plants. Mostly instrumental, the album was composed using the Computer Music Melodian, an early sampler. Wonder toured briefly in support of the album, and used a Fairlight CMI sampler on stage.[30] In this year Wonder also wrote and produced the dance hit "Let's Get Serious", performed by Jermaine Jackson and (ranked by Billboard as the #1 R&B single of 1980).
Hotter than July (1980) became Wonder's first platinum-selling single album, and its single "Happy Birthday" was a successful vehicle for his campaign to establish Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday. The album also included "Master Blaster (Jammin')", "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It", and the sentimental ballad, "Lately".
In 1982, Wonder released a retrospective of his 1970s work with Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium, which included four new songs: the ten-minute funk classic "Do I Do" (which featured Dizzy Gillespie), "That Girl" (one of the year's biggest singles to chart on the R&B side), "Front Line", a narrative about a soldier in the Vietnam War that Stevie Wonder wrote and sang in the 1st person, and "Ribbon in the Sky", one of his many classic compositions. Wonder also gained a #1 hit that year in collaboration with Paul McCartney in their paean to racial harmony, "Ebony and Ivory".
In 1983, Wonder performed the song "Stay Gold", the theme to Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders. Wonder wrote the lyrics.
In 1983, Wonder scheduled an album to be entitled "People Work, Human Play." The album never surfaced and instead 1984 saw the release of Wonder's soundtrack album for The Woman in Red. The lead single, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", was a #1 pop and R&B hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom, where it was placed 13th in the list of best-selling singles in the UK published in 2002. It went on to win an Academy Award for "Best Song" in 1985. The album also featured a guest appearance by Dionne Warwick, singing the duet "It's You" with Stevie and a few songs of her own. The following year's In Square Circle featured the #1 pop hit "Part-Time Lover". The album also has a Top 10 Hit with "Go Home." It also featured the ballad "Overjoyed" which was originally written for Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, but didn't make the album. He performed "Overjoyed" on Saturday Night Live when he was the host. He was also featured in Chaka Khan's cover of Prince's "I Feel For You", alongside Melle Mel, playing his signature harmonica. In roughly the same period he was also featured on harmonica on Eurythmics' single, "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".
By 1985, Stevie Wonder was an American icon,[citation needed] the subject of good-humored jokes about blindness and affectionately impersonated by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live.[citation needed] Wonder sometimes joined in the jokes himself such as in The Motown Revue with Smokey Robinson. He was in a featured duet with Bruce Springsteen on the all-star charity single for African Famine Relief, "We Are the World", and he was part of another charity single the following year (1986), the AIDS-inspired "That's What Friends Are For". He also played the harmonica on the album Dreamland Express by John Denver in the song "If Ever", a song Wonder co-wrote with Stephanie Andrews. He also wrote the track "I Do Love You" for The Beach Boys' 1985 self-titled album. Stevie Wonder also played the harmonica on a track called "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" from "Showboat" on "The Broadway Album" by Barbra Streisand.
In 1986, Stevie Wonder appeared on The Cosby Show, as himself, in the episode "A Touch of Wonder".
In 1987, Wonder appeared on Michael Jackson's Bad album on the duet "Just Good Friends". Michael Jackson also sang a duet with him titled "Get It" on Wonder's 1987 album Characters. This was a minor hit single, as were "Skeletons" and "You Will Know". In the fall of 1988, Wonder duetted with Julio Iglesias on the hit single "My Love", which appeared on Iglesias' album Non Stop.[citation needed]
Later career: 1991–2001[link]
After 1987's Characters LP, Wonder continued to release new material, but at a slower pace. He recorded a soundtrack album for Spike Lee's film Jungle Fever in 1991. From this album, singles and videos were released for "Gotta Have You" and "These Three Words". The B-side to the "Gotta Have You" single was "Feeding Off The Love Of The Land", which was played during the end credits of the movie Jungle Fever but was not included on the soundtrack. A piano and vocal version of "Feeding Off The Love Of The Land" was also released on the Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal compilation. It is rumored that "Feeding Off The Love Of The Land" was originally intended for release on Fulfillingness' First Finale Volume Two, a project that has never been confirmed as completed.
Conversation Peace and the live album Natural Wonder were also released in the 1990s. The former received its European launch at a high-profile March 1995 press conference in Paris, where Stevie mentioned how the tearing down of The Wall between East and West Berlin and the desire for a united Europe had played a significant part in the inspiration behind the album.[31]
In 1994, Wonder made a guest appearance on the KISS cover album KISS My Ass: Classic KISS Regrooved, playing harmonica and supplying background vocals for the song "Deuce", performed by Lenny Kravitz.
In 1996, Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life was selected as a documentary subject for the Classic Albums documentary series. This series dedicates 60 minutes to one groundbreaking record per feature. The same year, he performed John Lennon's song "Imagine" in the closing ceremony of the Atlanta Olympic Games.[32] The same year, Wonder performed in a remix of "Seasons of Love" from the Jonathan Larson musical Rent.[33]
In 1997, Wonder collaborated with Babyface for a song about abuse (domestic violence) called "How Come, How Long" which was nominated for an award.[citation needed]
In December 1999, Wonder announced that he was interested in pursuing an intraocular retinal prosthesis to partially restore his sight.[34] That same year, Wonder was featured on harmonica in the Sting song "Brand New Day".[35]
In 2000, Stevie Wonder contributed two new songs to the soundtrack for Spike Lee's Bamboozled album ("Misrepresented People" and "Some Years Ago").[36]
Current career: 2002–present[link]
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In March 2002, Wonder performed at the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City.[37]
On July 2, 2005, Wonder performed in the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.[38]
Wonder's first new album in ten years, A Time to Love, was released on October 18, 2005, after having been pushed back from first a May, and then a June release. The album was released electronically on September 27, 2005, exclusively on Apple's iTunes Music Store. The first single, "So What the Fuss", was released in April. A second single, "From the Bottom of My Heart" was a hit on adult-contemporary R&B radio. The album also featured a duet with India.Arie on the title track "A Time to Love".
Wonder performed at the pre-game show for Super Bowl XL in Detroit in early 2006, singing various hit singles (with his four-year-old son on drums) and accompanying Aretha Franklin during "The Star Spangled Banner".
In March 2006, Wonder received new national exposure on the top-rated American Idol television program. Wonder performed "My Love Is on Fire" (from A Time To Love) live on the show itself. In June 2006, Stevie Wonder made a guest appearance on Busta Rhymes' new album, The Big Bang on the track "Been through the Storm". He sings the refrain and plays the piano on the Dr. Dre and Sha Money XL produced track. He appeared again on the last track of Snoop Dogg's new album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, "Conversations". The song is a remake of "Have a Talk with God" from Songs in the Key of Life.
In 2006, Wonder staged a duet with Andrea Bocelli on the latter's album Amore, offering harmonica and additional vocals on "Canzoni Stonate". Stevie Wonder also performed at Washington, D.C.'s 2006 "A Capitol Fourth" celebration.
On August 2, 2007, Stevie Wonder announced the A Wonder Summer's Night 13 concert tour—his first U.S. tour in over ten years. This tour was inspired by the recent passing of his mother, as he stated at the conclusion of the tour on December 9 at the Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
On August 28, 2008, Wonder performed at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado. Songs included a previously unreleased song, "Fear Can't Put Dreams to Sleep," and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours".[39]
On September 8, 2008, Wonder started the European leg of his Wonder Summer's Night Tour, the first time he had toured Europe in over a decade. His opening show was at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. During the tour, Wonder played eight UK gigs; four at The O2 Arena in London, two in Birmingham and two at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester. Stevie Wonder's other stops in the tour's European leg also found him performing in Holland (Rotterdam), Sweden (Stockholm), Germany (Cologne, Mannheim and Munich), Norway (Hamar), France (Paris), Italy (Milan) and Denmark (Aalborg). Wonder also toured Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane) and New Zealand (Christchurch, Auckland and New Plymouth) in October and November.[40]
By June 2008, Wonder was working on two projects simultaneously: a new album titled The Gospel Inspired By Lula which will deal with the various spiritual and cultural crises facing the world, and Through The Eyes Of Wonder, an album which Wonder has described as a performance piece that will reflect his experience as a blind man. Wonder was also keeping the door open for a collaboration with Tony Bennett and Quincy Jones concerning a rumored jazz album.[41] If Wonder was to join forces with Bennett, it would not be for the first time; Their rendition of "For Once in My Life" earned them a Grammy for best pop collaboration with vocals in 2006.[17] Wonder's harmonica playing can be heard on the 2009 Grammy-nominated "Never Give You Up" featuring CJ Hilton and Raphael Saadiq.[42]
Wonder performed on January 18, 2009 at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, Wonder performed the song "Brand New Day" with musician Sting. He performed his new song "All About the Love Again" and, with other musical artists, "Signed, Sealed & Delivered". On February 23, 2009, Wonder became the second recipient of the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for pop music, honored by President Barack Obama at the White House.[43]
On July 7, 2009, Wonder performed "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer" and "They Won't Go When I Go" at the Staples Center for Michael Jackson's memorial service.[44] On October 29, 2009, Wonder performed at the 25th anniversary concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Among songs with B.B. King, Wonder performed Michael Jackson's 'The Way You Make Me Feel', during which he became distraught and was unable to continue until he regained his composure.
On January 22, 2010, Wonder performed Bridge Over Troubled Water for the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief event to help victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010.
On March 6, 2010, Wonder was awarded the Commander of the Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand. Wonder had been due to receive this award in 1981, but scheduling problems prevented this from happening. A lifetime achievement award was also given to Wonder on the same day, at France's biggest music awards.[45]
His 2010 tour included a two-hour set at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee,[46] a stop at London's "Hard Rock Calling" in Hyde Park, and appearances at England's Glastonbury Festival, Rotterdam's North Sea Jazz Festival, and a concert in Bergen, Norway and a concert in Dublin, Ireland at the O2 Arena on June 24.
In February 2011, the Apollo Theater announced that Stevie Wonder will be the next in line for the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame. The theater said that the singer will be inducted into the New York City institution's Hall of Fame in five months.[47]
On June 25, 2011, Wonder performed at the opening ceremony of the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece.[48] On January 28, 2012, Wonder and Christina Aguilera gave a musical tribute at Etta James' funeral. Wonder played "Shelter in the Rain" and The Lord's Prayer while while Aguilera sang "At Last."[49]
Wonder performed at the February 19, 2012 memorial service for Whitney Houston at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. He changed some of the lyrics of his song Ribbon in the Sky in dedication to Ms. Houston.[50]
Legacy[link]
A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and won twenty-two Grammy Awards[17] (the most ever won by a solo artist) as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also won an Academy Award for Best Song,[51] and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll[52] and Songwriters[53] halls of fame. He has also been awarded the Polar Music Prize.[54] American music magazine Rolling Stone named him the ninth greatest singer of all time.[55][56] In June 2009 he became the fourth artist to receive the Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award.[57] Stevie Wonder was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame in 2005.[58] His hit recording of "Superstition" was selected as a Legendary Michigan Song in 2010.[59]
He has ten U.S. number-one hits on the pop charts as well as 20 R&B number one hits, and album sales totaling more than 100 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as well. Wonder plays the piano, synthesizer, harmonica, congas, drums, bass guitar, bongos, organ, melodica, and clavinet. In his childhood, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for his keyboard skills and vocal ability. Wonder was the first Motown artist and second African American musician to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his 1984 hit single "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from the movie The Woman in Red.[citation needed]
Classic period[link]
Wonder's "classic period" is generally agreed to consist of the concept albums[60] he created in the early- to mid-1970s, peaking in 1976.[61] Some observers see in 1971's Where I'm Coming From certain indications of the beginning of the classic period, such as its new funky keyboard style which Wonder used throughout the classic period.[61] Some determine Wonder's first "classic" album to be 1972's Music of My Mind, on which he attained personal control of production, and on which he programmed a series of songs integrated with one another to make a concept album.[61] Others skip over early 1972 and determine the beginning of the classic period to be Talking Book in late 1972,[62] the album in which Wonder "hit his stride".[61]
Impact[link]
Wonder's songs are renowned for being quite difficult to sing. He has a very developed sense of harmony and uses many extended chords utilizing extensions such as ninths, elevenths, thirteenths, diminished fifths, etc. in his compositions. Many of his melodies make abrupt, unpredictable changes. Many of his vocal melodies are also melismatic, meaning that a syllable is sung over several notes. Some of his best known and most frequently covered songs are played in keys which are more often found in jazz than in pop and rock. For example, "Superstition", "Higher Ground" and "I Wish" are in the key of E flat minor, and feature distinctive riffs in the E flat minor pentatonic scale (i.e. largely on the black notes of the keyboard).[citation needed]
Wonder played a large role in bringing synthesizers to the forefront of popular music. He developed many new textures and sounds never heard before.[citation needed] In 1981, Wonder became the first owner of an E-mu Emulator.[63]
Songs sampled by other musicians[link]
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Wonder has recorded with Jon Gibson, a Christian Soul musician, on a remake of his own song, "Have a Talk With God" (from the 1989 album Body & Soul), covered by Gibson in which Wonder plays harmonica.[64] The two men met in the early 1980s through a shared music agent (Bill Wolfer).[65]
Red Hot Chili Peppers covered "Higher Ground" in 1989 on their Mother's Milk album. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble covered "Superstition" and Wonder made a cameo appearance in the official music video for the song.[citation needed]
De La Soul sampled "Hey Love" in their song "Talkin' Bout Hey Love" on their 1991 album De La Soul Is Dead.
"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" was rendered by English band Incognito in 1992 and John Legend covered this song for the 2005 film, Hitch. George Michael and Mary J. Blige covered "As" in the late 1990s. In 1999, Salomé de Bahia made a Brazilian version of "Another Star". Tupac Shakur sampled "That Girl" for his hit song "So Many Tears".[citation needed]
"Pastime Paradise" would become an interpolation for Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" while Will Smith would use "I Wish" as the basis for the theme song to his movie, Wild Wild West. The elements of "Love's In Need of Love Today" were used by 50 Cent in the song "Ryder Music", and Warren G sampled "Village Ghetto Land" for his song "Ghetto Village".[citation needed]
Mary Mary did a cover of his song "You Will Know" on their 2002 album, Incredible. Australian soul artist Guy Sebastian recorded a cover of "I Wish" on his Beautiful Life album. In 2003, Raven-Symoné recorded a cover of "Superstition" for the soundtrack to Disney's The Haunted Mansion. In 2005, Canadian singer Dave Moffatt, from the group The Moffatts, sang the song "Overjoyed" from the In Square Circle album on Canadian Idol. Clay Aiken performed "Isn't She Lovely?" in the episode "My Life in Four Cameras" of Scrubs.[citation needed]
Personal life[link]
Wonder has been married twice: to Motown singer Syreeta Wright from 1970 until their divorce in 1972; and since 2001, to fashion designer Kai Millard Morris.[66] He has seven children from his two marriages and several relationships.[66]
Stevie met Yolanda Simmons when she applied for a job as his secretary for his publishing company.[67] Simmons bore Wonder a daughter on February 2, 1975: Aisha Morris.[68][69]) According to Stevie, the name Aisha is "African for strength and intelligence".[67] After she was born, Stevie said "she was the one thing that I needed in my life and in my music for a long time.[67] It was this in mind, she was the inspiration for his hit single "Isn't She Lovely." Aisha Morris is a singer who has toured with her father and accompanied him on recordings, including his 2005 album, A Time 2 Love. Wonder has two sons with Kai Millard Morris; the older is named Kailand and he occasionally performs as a drummer on stage with his father. The younger son, Mandla Kadjay Carl Stevland Morris, was born May 13, 2005, his father's 55th birthday.[66] In May 2006, Wonder's mother died in Los Angeles, at the age of 76. During his September 8, 2008 UK concert in Birmingham, he spoke of his decision to begin touring again following his loss. "I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around."[70]
Wonder's Taxi Productions owns Los Angeles radio station KJLH.
Charting discography[link]
Main article: Stevie Wonder discography
Top 40 singles[link]
| Year | Title | Chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [71] |
US R&B | US Dance | US AC | UK | ||
| 1963 | "Fingertips – Pt. 2" | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 1966 | "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" | 3 | 1 | – | – | 14 |
| "Blowin' in the Wind" | 9 | 1 | – | – | 36 | |
| "A Place in the Sun" | 9 | 3 | – | – | 20 | |
| 1967 | "I Was Made to Love Her" | 2 | 1 | – | – | 5 |
| 1968 | "For Once in My Life" | 2 | 1 | – | – | 3 |
| "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" | 9 | 1 | – | – | – | |
| 1969 | "My Cherie Amour" | 4 | 4 | – | – | 4 |
| "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" | 7 | 5 | – | – | 2 | |
| 1970 | "Never Had a Dream Come True" | 26 | 11 | – | – | 5 |
| "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" | 3 | 1 | – | – | 15 | |
| "Heaven Help Us All" | 8 | 2 | – | – | 29 | |
| 1971 | "We Can Work It Out" | 13 | 3 | – | – | 27 |
| "If You Really Love Me" | 8 | 4 | – | – | 20 | |
| 1972 | "Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)" | 33 | 13 | – | – | – |
| "Superstition" | 1 | 1 | – | – | 11 | |
| 1973 | "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" | 1 | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| "Higher Ground" | 4 | 1 | – | – | 29 | |
| "Living for the City" | 8 | 1 | – | – | 15 | |
| "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" | 16 | 2 | – | – | - | |
| 1974 | "He's Misstra Know It All" | – | – | – | – | 10 |
| "You Haven't Done Nothin'" (with The Jackson 5) |
1 | 1 | – | – | 30 | |
| "Boogie On Reggae Woman" | 3 | 1 | – | – | 12 | |
| 1977 | "I Wish" | 1 | 1 | – | – | 5 |
| "Sir Duke" | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
| "Another Star" | 32 | 18 | – | – | 29 | |
| "As" | 36 | 36 | – | – | – | |
| 1979 | "Send One Your Love" | 4 | 5 | – | – | – |
| 1980 | "Master Blaster (Jammin')" | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It" | 10 | 4 | – | – | 11 | |
| 1981 | "Lately" | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| "Happy Birthday" | – | 17 | – | – | 2 | |
| "That Girl" | 3 | 1 | – | – | 39 | |
| 1982 | "Do I Do" | 7 | 2 | – | – | 10 |
| "Ebony and Ivory" (with Paul McCartney) | 1 | 8 | – | – | 1 | |
| "Ribbon in the Sky" | – | 9 | – | – | – | |
| 1984 | "I Just Called to Say I Love You" | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 |
| 1985 | "Part-Time Lover" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| "That's What Friends Are For" (with Dionne Warwick, Elton John and Gladys Knight) |
1 | 1 | – | 1 | 16 | |
| "Love Light in Flight" | 17 | 4 | 6 | 10 | – | |
| 1986 | "Go Home" | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| "Land of La La" | – | 19 | – | – | – | |
| "Overjoyed" | 24 | 8 | – | 1 | 17 | |
| 1987 | "Skeletons" | 17 | 1 | 20 | – | – |
| 1988 | "Get It" (with Michael Jackson) | – | 4 | – | – | 37 |
| "My Eyes Don't Cry" | – | 6 | 12 | – | – | |
| "You Will Know" | – | 1 | – | – | – | |
| 1989 | "With Each Beat of My Heart" | – | 28 | – | – | – |
| 1990 | "Keep Our Love Alive" | – | 24 | – | – | – |
| 1991 | "Fun Day (From "Jungle Fever")" | – | 6 | – | – | – |
| "Gotta Have You (From "Jungle Fever")" | – | 3 | – | – | – | |
| 1992 | "These Three Words" | – | 7 | – | – | – |
| 1995 | "For Your Love" | – | 11 | – | 30 | 23 |
| 2005 | "So What the Fuss" | – | 34 | – | 40 | 19 |
| "From the Bottom of My Heart" | – | 25 | – | 7 | – | |
U.S. and UK albums[link]
| Year | Album | Chart positions | ||
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| US [72] |
US R&B | UK [73] |
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| 1963 | Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius | 1 | – | – |
| 1966 | Up-Tight | 33 | 2 | – |
| 1966 | Down to Earth | 72 | 8 | – |
| 1967 | I Was Made to Love Her | 45 | 7 | – |
| 1968 | For Once in My Life | 50 | 4 | – |
| 1969 | My Cherie Amour | 34 | 3 | 17 |
| 1970 | Signed, Sealed, and Delivered | 25 | 7 | – |
| 1971 | Where I'm Coming From | – | 7 | – |
| 1972 | Music of My Mind | 21 | 6 | – |
| 1972 | Talking Book | 3 | 1 | 16 |
| 1973 | Innervisions | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 1974 | Fulfillingness' First Finale | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1976 | Songs in the Key of Life | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1979 | Journey through the Secret Life of Plants | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| 1980 | Hotter than July | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1982 | Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1984 | The Woman in Red | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 1985 | In Square Circle | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| 1987 | Characters | 17 | 1 | 33 |
| 1995 | Conversation Peace | 17 | 2 | 8 |
| 1996 | Natural Wonder | – | 88 | – |
| 1996 | Song Review A Greatest Hits Collection | – | 100 | 19 |
| 2000 | At the Close of a Century | – | 100 | – |
| 2002 | The Definitive Collection | 35 | 28 | – |
| 2004 | Best Of Stevie Wonder: 20th Century Masters Christmas Collection | – | 90 | – |
| 2005 | A Time to Love | 5 | 2 | 24 |
| 2007 | Number 1's | 171 | 40 | 23 |
Awards and recognition[link]
Grammy Awards[link]
Wonder has won 22 Grammy Awards:[17] as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award which he was presented in 1996.[74]
| Year | Award | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Best Rhythm & Blues Song | "Superstition" |
| 1973 | Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male | "Superstition" |
| 1973 | Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male | "You are the Sunshine of My Life" |
| 1973 | Album of the Year | Innervisions |
| 1974 | Best Rhythm & Blues Song | "Living for the City" |
| 1974 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | "Boogie On Reggae Woman" |
| 1974 | Best Male Pop Vocal Performance | Fulfillingness' First Finale |
| 1974 | Album of the Year | Fulfillingness' First Finale |
| 1976 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | "I Wish" |
| 1976 | Best Male Pop Vocal Performance | Songs in the Key of Life[75] |
| 1976 | Best Producer of the Year* | N/A |
| 1976 | Album of the Year | Songs in the Key of Life |
| 1985 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | In Square Circle |
| 1986 | Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (awarded to Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Wonder) |
"That's What Friends Are For" |
| 1995 | Best Rhythm & Blues Song | "For Your Love" |
| 1995 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | "For Your Love" |
| 1998 | Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) (awarded to Herbie Hancock, Robert Sadin, and Wonder) |
"St. Louis Blues" |
| 1998 | Best Male R&B Vocal Performance | "St. Louis Blues" |
| 2002 | Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (awarded to Wonder and Take 6) |
"Love's in Need of Love Today" |
| 2005 | Best Male Pop Vocal Performance | "From the Bottom of My Heart" |
| 2005 | Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals (awarded to Beyoncé and Wonder) |
"So Amazing" |
| 2006 | Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals (awarded to Tony Bennett and Wonder) | "For Once In My Life" |
- From 1965 to 1980 a self-produced artist received one GRAMMY Award as an artist and an additional one as a producer in the Record of the Year and Album of the Year categories
Other awards and recognition[link]
- 1983: inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[53]
- 1984: received an Academy Award for Best Song for "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from the movie The Woman in Red.[51]
- 1989: inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[52]
- 1999: received the Polar Music Prize[54] and Kennedy Center Honors.[76]
- 2002: received the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's Spring Sing.[77] The same year, Wonder received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[78]
- 2004: received the Billboard Century Award.[79] Also in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Rock and Roll Artists of All Time.[80]
- 2006: was inducted, as one of the first inductees, into the Michigan Walk of Fame.[81] The same year, Wonder received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.[82]
- 2008: Ranked at number five on "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists", making him as the third most successful male artist in the history of Billboard Hot 100 chart.[83]
- 2009: Recipient of the second Gershwin Prize For Popular Song.[84]
- 2009: Recipient of the Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award.[57] This special award underlines a popular artist’s extraordinary contribution to the musical world. The Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award is in bronze.
- 2009: Named a Messenger of Peace by the United Nations.[5]
See also[link]
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Book: Stevie Wonder |
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- Best selling music artists
- List of number-one hits (United States)
- List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones
- List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
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| Name | Wonder, Stevie |
| Alternative names | Judkins, Stevland Hardaway; Morris, Stevland Hardaway |
| Short description | American singer-songwriter and record producer |
| Date of birth | May 13, 1950 |
| Place of birth | Saginaw, Michigan, United States |
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