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Brazilian music receives long-due popularity
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Brazilian music receives long-due popularity, respect
Latin Grammys honor sounds with 7 categories; some say it deserves
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By HOWARD COHEN
Miami Herald
Thursday, August 23, 2001
Blame it on the bossa nova.
Seems many Americans, swayed by the alluring rhythms of the bossa
nova music trend of the early '60s, think that's all there is to
Brazilian music. After all, is there a lounge act in the world that
doesn't have "The Girl From Ipanema" in its acti...
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; As it turns out, "The Girl from Ipanema" truly was just a tease. When the 1963 recording of Antonio Carlos Jobim's song by vocalist Astrud Gilberto, saxophonist Stan Getz, and guitarist Joao Gilberto swam against the tide of rock and roll to become one of the biggest popular music hits of its day,
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RIO GRAND A RICH BLEND OF BRAZILIAN MUSIC IS FILLING THE NIGHT AT AREA CLUBS
The Boston Globe
; Sitting at the bar of the Acton Jazz Cafe, Edward Engleman listens as Giana Viscardi converts her rich voice to a percussion instrument or massages the lyrics to a song about the powerful wind of change in her native Brazil. The 50-year-old writer from Bolton is not the only one in the sparsely
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Brazilian music receives long-due popularity
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Brazilian music receives long-due popularity, respect Latin Grammys honor sounds with 7 categories; some say it deserves more By HOWARD COHEN Miami Herald Thursday, August 23, 2001 Blame it on the bossa nova. Seems many Americans, swayed by the alluring rhythms of the bossa nova music trend of the
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Brazilian music will get some of its due at the Latin Grammys.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Blame it on the bossa nova. Seems many Americans, swayed by the alluring rhythms of the bossa nova music trend of the early `60s, think that's all there is to Brazilian music. After all, is there a lounge act in the world that doesn't have The Girl From Ipanema in its active set list? It's
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Beyond the Bossa Nova; Brazilian Popular Music, Breaking Into U.S. & European Markets
The Washington Post
; Hermeto Pascoal made birds sing with a homemade flute when he was 7. Since then he has mastered almost every instrument imaginable, and many unimaginable as well. Warming up at an electric piano at his home in a Rio suburb recently, Brazil's crown prince of polyphony segued to a mandolin, and then
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Bossa nova baby growing up.(The Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; If you have only a passing interest in Brazilian music, it's still quite likely you've heard Bebel Gilberto's gorgeously translucent voice. For a time she was just about anywhere you looked. Throughout the `90s Bebel earned a reputation as the premiere multipurpose world-beat backing vocalist,
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Pop: From Brussels with love It's the hot new sound of Brazil, a collision of Latin rhythms and drum'n'bass beats. But nova bossa nova was born in Belgium... Phil Johnson investigates
The Independent - London
; A Friday night in Rio. At a club in Gavea there's a special night called Zirigui'drum, dedicated to the hot new fusion of bossa nova and samba with hip hop and drum'n'bass. Three DJs are playing hard hip hop to a non-existent audience; not a single solitary soul other than four depressed-looking
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Bossa Nova Pioneer Baden Powell, 63
The Washington Post
; Composer and musician Baden Powell, a pioneer of bossa nova who was more popular abroad than at home, died Sept. 26. He was 63. Mr. Powell was hospitalized Aug. 22 at Sorocaba Clinic in Rio de Janeiro, publicist Alexandre Raine said. His kidneys began to fail and he developed a general infection,
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Bossa nova composer Baden Powell, 63, dies
Chicago Sun-Times
; RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Composer and musician Baden Powell, a pioneer of bossa nova, died Tuesday. He was 63. Powell was hospitalized Aug. 22 at Sorocaba Clinic in Rio de Janeiro, his publicist Alexandre Raine said. His kidneys began to fail and he developed a general infection. He died of pneumonia
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Shades of bossa nova
Jerusalem Post
; 00-00-0000 Headline: Shades of bossa nova Byline: Barry Davis Edition; Daily Section: Arts Page: 09 Sunday, March 31, 2002 -- SHADES OF JOBIM (Concord Records/MCI) KENNY GARRETT Happy People (Warner Bros./Hed Artzi) Since tenor saxophonist Stan Getz discovered Brazilian music in the Fifties, there
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