Genil Castro

Genil Castro started to play guitar in 1981 at 15 .He studied acoustic guitar ’bossa nova" with Gamela (Sidney Barros) for two years. In 1983/84 Genil enrolled G.I.T for six months,during this period he had the opportunity to meet and study with Joe Diorio and also attended seminars with Lenny Breau, Howard Roberts,Ron Eschete, Larry Coryell, Mick Goodrick, Steve Morse, Moacir Santos, Carl Schroeder, Jeff Berlin, Tommy Tedesco, Frank Gambale among others. Genil also studied with Joe Diorio at his guitar courses in Brazil in 1985/1989(Rio) and 1995(Brasilia), he also participated of E.M.B summer course in 1998 with Toninho Horta. Genil has played and/or recorded with important musicians such as: Joao Donato, Joe Diorio, Toninho Horta, Don Burrows, Vittor Santos, Nelson Faria, Jeff Andrews, Jorge Helder, Paulo Braga, Hamilton de Holanda, Paulo Russo, Andrew Scott Potter, Steve Barnes, Ademir Junior, Moisés Alves (Paraibach), Daniel Alcântara, Rubinho Antunes, Leandro Braga, Adriano Giffone, Carlos Bala, Widor Santiago, Carlos Malta, Márcio Bahia, Cássia Eller, Alex Carvalho, Carlos Ribeiro Jr,Sérgio Galvão, Cássio Moura, Marco Tulio Pinheiro, Yuri Popoff, Kiko Freitas, Lupa Santiago, Délia Fischer, Lourival Galliani, Arnou de Mello, Marcos Britto, Erivelton Silva, Nema Antunes, Eric Sayer,Ricardo Boy Nakamura, Phil deGreg, Mark Tracy, Gamela, Saulo Ferreira, Niromar Fernandes, Alex Queiroz, Serge Von Frasunkiewicz, Enrico Carinci,Paulo Dantas,Ticho Lavenere, Renato Vasconcellos, Oswaldo Amorim, Affinity Jazz trio, Marabeau Jazz trio,among others.

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