The History of Samba - part I - from slaves to favelas |
Many people ask me when they find out I'm from Brazil if I can dance the Samba. I normally just say: "yeah, I guess, it's in the blood". But what is this dance that is so characteristic of my country?...
Posted by Mano Gil (a.k.a. Broder) on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:45:00 PST |
Os Novos Baianos - The hippie music meets Joao Gilberto (or vice-versa) |
Being a hippie in Brazil during the military dictatorship was something that demanded a lot of will power and much more courage. They were an easy target to the police. Many of them were taken for pol...
Posted by Mano Gil (a.k.a. Broder) on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:33:00 PST |
Tim Maia - the brazilian Soul Man |
Tim Maia - the father of the Brazilian Soul Music - started his music career playing drums and then later moved to the guitar, which he learned to play by himself. At thet time he was still ...
Posted by Mano Gil (a.k.a. Broder) on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:13:00 PST |
CHICO SCIENCE AND THE REVOLUTION OF MANGUE BEAT |
The late 80's was a terrible period for music. The world had lost the crazy-free loving-psichodelic movement of the late 60's and 70's and the over-colored synthetized music of the early 80's was very...
Posted by Mano Gil (a.k.a. Broder) on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:32:00 PST |
The First DJ in Brazil (part II) |
In 1959, just one year after his first neighborhood parties, Osvaldo Pereira, got a deal with the owner of the 220 Club to use the ballroom on sundays. It sounded like a great idea for both as the clu...
Posted by Mano Gil (a.k.a. Broder) on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:28:00 PST |
The first DJ in Brasil |
This is a great story.
As a DJ and a jounalist I was always curious to know how the whole DJing thing started in my country. I first thought that it started in the 70's with the influence of the...
Posted by Mano Gil (a.k.a. Broder) on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:01:00 PST |
A MULHER DO VINICIUS (uma delas) |
Lucia Proenca was a socialite from Rio de Janeiro. She had a splendid vacation house in Petropolis, surrounded by gardens and situated at a rivers bank. The house had marble rooms and there was a butt...
Posted by Mano Gil (a.k.a. Broder) on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:42:00 PST |
Ma-sh Kay Nada ... Sergio Mendes takes over America!!! |
..... A lot of people now know Sergio Mendes for his partnership with Will. i.am from the Black Eyed Peas and the amazing album TIMELESS (i particularly got the CD, the Vinyl and it's on my iPod too) ...
Posted by Mano Gil (a.k.a. Broder) on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:04:00 PST |
And it was all Bossa Nova and Joao Gilberto was Bossa Nova |
.............Joao Gilberto, the father of Bossa Nova, was baiano. Yes. He was not from the busy Sao Paulo or from the cultural Rio de Janeiro of 1959. He was from Bahia and that's why his music was to...
Posted by Mano Gil (a.k.a. Broder) on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:35:00 PST |
