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Daniela Mercury - 83% match to Carlinhos Brown

Daniela Mercuri De Almeida Póvoas, 28 July 1965, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Singer-songwriter and producer Mercury is one of the main exponents of ‘sonido bahiano’, a style that combines the Brazilian music genres ‘axé’ and ‘samba reggae’. Building upon a foundation of percussive sounds, her work delivers an exuberant mix of upbeat C Read more

Gilberto Gil - 56% match to Carlinhos Brown

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira, 29 June 1942, Salvador, Brazil. Singer-songwriter Gil - also a competent accordionist, guitarist, drummer and trumpeter - joined his first group, the Desafinados, in the mid-50s, and by the start of the 60s was making a living composing jingles for television commercials. Along with Caetano Veloso, Gil was one of the leading lights of the tropica Read more

Caetano Veloso - 38% match to Carlinhos Brown

Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles Veloso, 7 August 1942, Santa Amaro da Purifacação, Bahia, Brazil. Veloso has been compared at times to Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Bob Marley - another way of saying he is a cultural icon who has managed to be both a traditionalist and a rebel, often at the same time. In the course of more than 30 years, Veloso has continuously cre Read more

Arnaldo Antunes - 33% match to Carlinhos Brown

Arnaldo Augusto Nora Antunes, 2 September 1960, São Paulo, Brazil. Antunes studied at the Colégio Equipe where he showed marked abilities as a musician, composer and writer. He worked on several multi-media projects, including one with Banda Performática, which was recorded in 1980 and for which he and Paulo Miklos composed a prize-winning song. He and M Read more

Luiz Gonzaga - 32% match to Carlinhos Brown

13 December 1912, Caicara, Pernambuco, Brazil, d. 2 August 1989, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. The lively dance music of north-east Brazil known as forró was all around Gonzaga during his childhood. He became adept at this fierce and sometimes raw musical form, which has at its core the instrumentation of accordion and percussion, the latter being played chiefly on the Read more

Gal Costa - 30% match to Carlinhos Brown

Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos, 26 September 1945, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Costa is the most illustrious female singer of the tropicália movement, a chameleonic performer who has been equal parts hippie, sex symbol, carnival participant and political activist. From the start of her musical career in the mid-60s, she had some pretty illustrious classmates: C Read more

Djavan - 29% match to Carlinhos Brown

27 January 1949, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. Djavan’s marriage of traditional South American rhythms with music drawn from Africa and Europe, including rock and pop, has made him successful in North America. Indeed, his music has been named ‘South American Global Pop’ in some quarters although it retains enough ethnic flavour to please its native audience Read more

Lenine - 26% match to Carlinhos Brown

Oswaldo Lenine Macedo Pimentel, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Considered one of the most intelligent composers and musicians in Brazil, singer and guitarist Lenine was widely praised during the 90s for his rejuvenation of Brazilian pop. Lenine moved to Rio de Janeiro at 18, carrying with him the roots and rhythms of his home town. Pernambuco is known for maracatu, a syncopated Read more

Nana Caymmi - 24% match to Carlinhos Brown

Ivan Lins - 19% match to Carlinhos Brown

16 June 1945, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Because Lins’ father was a graduate engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ivan was raised in both Brazil and the USA. In Brazil, he pursued his own studies and was also seriously considering a sporting career but sensed that music might offer a more fulfilling future. While growing up, he had heard and en Read more

Rosa Passos - 17% match to Carlinhos Brown

1952, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Raised in the heady musical atmosphere of the city of her birth, Passos studied piano from the age of three, then guitar and began singing eight years later. She started composing songs while still in her teens and over the years continued to do so, often in collaboration with lyricist Fernando de Oliveira. Indeed, Passos’ 1978 debut Recri Read more

Fernanda Porto - 15% match to Carlinhos Brown

31 December 1968, Serra Negra, São Paulo, Brazil. Porto studied classical piano, composition and music theory as well as aspects of electro technology at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo. In addition to piano, she also plays saxophone, guitar and percussion. Primarily, though, she became known in her homeland for her Read more

Celso Fonseca - 14% match to Carlinhos Brown

15 November 1956, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazil’s ‘best kept secret’, Fonseca is actually a keystone of his country’s music scene. He has collaborated with luminaries such as Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Marisa Monte and Bebel Gilberto, and is a producer of some repute, working on albums by Gil, Gal Costa, Virginia Rodrigues, Daniela Mercury and Da&uacu Read more

Elis Regina - 14% match to Carlinhos Brown

Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, 17 March 1945, Porto Alegre, Brazil, d. 19 January 1982, São Paulo, Brazil. Regarded as one of the finest singers from Brazil, Elis Regina attained legendary status in her native country before her death at age 36. For nearly two decades she was among the most popular performers in Brazil, and while a fierce dedication to her profession bro Read more

Simone - 12% match to Carlinhos Brown