“Monsieur Saudade”, Abou Tall’s album with bossa nova sounds
Kaïge-Jean Balé Simoès de Fonseca and Warra Charlotte Gomis, members of the family of tropical colors, Offer a song and address a current topic. Guest: French-Senegalese singer Abou Tall, former member of The Shin Sekai, the duo he founded with Dadju. Abou Tall is an artist inspired by bossa nova, his African roots and his […]
“They Shot the Piano Player”, innovative bossa – Liberation
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A journalist’s investigation into the disappearance of a great Brazilian pianist on the eve of the Argentine coup, this animated film deftly combines the joyful birth of bossa nova and the violence of South American dictatorships. Police investigation, biography through the void, portrait of a brief period of continental artistic turmoil, major account of South […]
Bossa Nova für die Augen
Fahr nach Brasília, so sagten sie. Man muss es mit den eigenen Augen sehen, ganz unglaublich, fügten sie hinzu. Die Hauptstadt. Einzig und allein nach dem Prinzip der Schönheit aufgebaut wie aus dem Nichts, das waren ihre Worte. Ein Reißbrett-Traum, Atlantis und Utopia in einem, so nannten es die Freunde. Auf roter Erde stolz errichtet, […]
Brazilian singer Carlos Lyra, one of the great architects of bossa nova, has died at the age of 90
Welcome Culture Music World music Singer, guitarist and composer Carlos Lyra was one of the young artists who helped launch the bossa nova music movement in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s. Several major Brazilian musicians, from Caetano Veloso to Gilberto Gil, paid tribute to him over the weekend. France Télévisions – cultural editorial team […]
“They shot the pianist” by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, when bossa nova becomes a tragedy
Among the many proposals presented this year by the San Sebastian Festival were several animated films, including two in official competition, a rarity at a general festival. And out of competition is the latest feature film by the Spaniards Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. Trueba, which once again appears in “ They shot the pianist […]
The Gilberto saga, a bohemian bossa nova life
In Rio, the Atlantic Ocean is sometimes wild, beautiful, wild. Then he doesn’t let anyone into his waves. You can barely touch the huge foam. The 8-kilometer-long beach in Rio’s Zona Sul — Leme, Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon — stretches roughly from Sugarloaf Mountain to the rocky peak of Vidigal, a favela that glows with […]
Leny Andrade, brasilianische Sängerin, die Bossa Nova und Jazz vereinte, ist im Alter von 80 Jahren gestorben
Leny Andrade, eine brasilianische Sängerin, die dazu beigetragen hat, ein neues Genre zu schaffen, indem sie den sanften Bossa-Nova-Sound des Landes mit Jazz-Einflüssen verschmolz, darunter Scat-Improvisationen, die Vergleiche mit Ella Fitzgerald hervorriefen, starb am 24. Juli in einem Krankenhaus in Rio de Janeiro. Sie war 80. Frau Andrade sei an einer Lungenentzündung gestorben, hieß es […]
João Donato, pioneer of bossa nova, died at the age of 88 – liberation
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The Brazilian singer and composer, precursor of bossa nova, died on Monday in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 88. He is the author of legendary compositions, in particular “Minha saudade” with João Gilberto. “Today the paradise of composers woke up happier: João Donato went there to play his great melodies.” Brazilian singer and […]
Bossa Nova pioneer Joao Donato dies at the age of 88
Brazilian singer and composer Joao Donato, one of the pioneers of bossa nova, died on Monday June 17 in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 88, according to those close to him. Brazilian singer-songwriter Joao Donato, a reference in bossa nova, died on Monday in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 88, according […]
Joao Donato, brasilianischer Sänger und Komponist, Pionier des Bossa Nova, ist tot
Der Musiker Joao Donato nimmt den Preis für das beste Latin-Jazz-Album auf der Bühne während der Latin Grammy Awards am 11. November 2010 in Las Vegas entgegen. KEVIN WINTER / GETTY IMAGES ÜBER – Der brasilianische Sänger und Komponist Joao Donato, einer der Pioniere des Bossa-Nova, ist am Montag, dem 17. Juli, im Alter von […]