Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Djavan (also known by its subtitle, A Voz, O Violão, A Música de Djavan) is the debut album by Brazilian singer and songwriter Djavan. It was released in 1976. It was released in 1976. The album features some of the singer's early hits, like "Flor de Lis," "Para-Raio," "E Que Deus Ajude" and "Fato Consumado".
The choice of the "100 greatest" was based on the sum of votes of 60 scholars, producers and Brazilian music journalists. Each of the voters chose 20 albums, in no order of preference, which according to Rolling Stone, should be based on criteria like "intrinsical artistic value and historical importance, that is, how much the album influenced other artists."
The Caipira viola or Caipira guitar [1] (in Portuguese: Viola caipira), is a Brazilian ten-string guitar with five courses of strings arranged in pairs. [2] It is a variation of the Portuguese viola that developed in the state of São Paulo during the colonial period, [3] serving as a basis for Paulista music, especially for subgenres of Caipira folklore, such as moda de viola, caipira pagode ...
The Forças Populares 25 de Abril soon took on the selective killings and the use of extreme violence in their actions. The first deaths officially claimed by the organization took place in May 1980 and mainly resulted from confrontations with elements of the security forces, during bank robberies or during police rides.
Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro.His father, Raúl, was a civil servant, an educated man of Spanish extraction, a librarian, and an amateur astronomer and musician. . In Villa-Lobos's early childhood, Brazil underwent a period of social revolution and modernisation, abolishing slavery in 1888 and overthrowing the Empire of Brazil in 1
She later launched a single entitled Coro Infantil de Santo Amaro de Oeiras. The song was chosen to represent Portugal , in Bologna , in the 1980 edition of the Zecchino d'Oro , a festival of little known songs with profits going to the well-known charity UNICEF , with Armanda Maria emerging victorious with a song entitled "Ho visto un rospo".
Paulinho da Viola (born Paulo César Batista de Faria on 12 November 1942) (Portuguese pronunciation: [pawˈlĩɲu daviˈɔlɐ]) is a Brazilian sambista, singer-songwriter, guitar, cavaquinho and mandolin player, known for his sophisticated harmonies and soft, gentle singing voice.
His main instrument is the violão de sete cordas, the Brazilian seven-string classical guitar. Costa began to study guitar at age seven with his father, Algacir Costa, leader of the group Os Fronteiriços (The Frontiersmen), and mastered the instrument under the guidance of Lúcio Yanel [ es ] , an Argentine virtuoso , who lived in Brazil.