About Me
Born in Areia Branca (Natal), in the Northeast of Brazil, Tico da Costa is an extremely prolific singer/song writer, he is also a guitar virtuoso, a composer of instrumental music and a born-showman that can magnetize any audience as a solo performer - voice and guitar, or accompanied by his international band. Tico has been performing at The Blue Note of New York, Town Hall, Symphony Space, Knitting Factory, among others._____________________________________________________
_________________________“His light, easy tenor adorned polyryrhythmic guitar lines that could always go fast enough to suit his needs, sometimes striking the band into precarious double-time. In “Pé de Cajaranaâ€, Mr. da Costa had the crowd chanting a percussive chorus...
This was where Mr. da Costa showed himself to be a superb artisan: skillfully recreating a few minutes of a beatific locomotion that in its proper context could have stretched into hoursâ€.Ben Ratliff - THE NEW YORK TIMES
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...Tico da Costa is a young man who plays music of his native Brazil with both grace and charm. As a composer performer he brings together an ease of manner and a personal style that for many will be irresistible. The interesting thing about Tico’s music is that his technique is highly sophisticated and yet his songs are completely spontaneous… the lyrics are very poetical.
Philip Glass
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___________________"Tico, I'am afraid you don't know that you composed one of the nicest songs in this century."Ana Bandolim". What you did between the first and fifth measure is incredible! Beethoven could not have done it better".
Pete Seeger (Guantanamera)
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__________________“Da Costa’s guitar work is fluidly classical in a Brazilian jazz vein: clean and gentle accompaniment to his romantic lyrics with arrangements that are quite complete in themselves… Rather than a cultural blend, this is a beautiful example of Brazilian song in its simplest form, played and sung with impeccable styleâ€
Option Magazine – Los Angeles
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__________________"...Fué una notable sorpresa. Me iba a escucharlo, y a verlo de cerca, al histórico, al mÃtico Pete Seeger... El escenário estaba pleno. Pete invitó a subir a otro artista. Pensé que serÃa un crimen. No habÃa lugar. Peró subió Tico da Costa y primero, si mal no recuerdo, entró mano a mano con el mito, pra después cantar solo. Y copó una parte del escenario, e hizo un hueco que fue creciendo hasta ser grande... el público aceptó el cambio del gigante musical al que venÃa a idolatrar y se quedó con el canto de este brasileño ingenioso y carismático que te atrapa en pocas notas musicales y te convence para viajar por un mundo musical y poético de tremenda originalidad...una fuerte personalidad unificadora. Un concierto de Tico puede ser muchos conciertos y uno solo. Y un músico que es capaz de subir a un escenario pleno sólo con su talento y sus recursos, y salir airoso, es sin duda un gigante".
Antonio Carmona - Última Hora -Asunción__________________________________________________
____________________________“Para medir la estatura artÃstica de este músico y cantante brasileño lo más apropiado es nombrar alguna de las figuras que compartieron escenarios con él. Paquito D’Rivera y John Patitucci, en el “Brasil-New York Jazz Festival, giras con Pete Seeger por los Estados Unidos, actuaciones con Joao Bosco y presentaciones como solista en 30 ciudades europeas, que incluyen Roma, Milán, Colonia, ParÃs, etc. Pero todo lo dicho anteriormente deviene en literatura cuando Tico se enfrente al público con su guitarra y su voz. Entonces cada quien ingresa en plenitud a la verdadera dimensión de la música.â€Quinto Festival Internacional de Jazz Córdoba, Argentina.
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__________________Tico da Costa é cantautor e violonista: uma expressão genuÃna que abrange o bucólico dos ritmos nordestinos, a picardia do chorinho e a sofisticação da bossa .Nasceu em Areia Branca, litoral do Rio Grande do Norte. Em Natal, Recife e Roma estudou música, e na universidade, Letras.
Ele fala com graça do cotidiano nas suas cançoes. Possui um estilo inconfundÃvel. Entrelaçando harmonia, arpejos, criando um dinamismo polirrÃtmico que fascina público, músicos e crÃticos pela sua exuberância: seja como solista voz-violao, seja acompanhado de suas bandas no Brasil, Italia e Estados Unidos._____________________________________________________
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Concertos em Nova Iorque no Town Hall, Symphony Space, Knitting Factory, The Blue Note - com particip. esp. de Philip Glass. Sucesso abosluto no New Port Folk Festival, New York Jazz Festival - lado a lado com Joao Bosco, John Patitucci, Paquito D'Rivera, Toninho Horta, Vanessa Fallabella; Celebrating Brooklyn Festival, Festival Sin Fronteras em Madison e Chicago; Festival de Orquestras - Juvenil de Pergine (Maestro Julià n Lombana, particip. Corrado Bungaro), na Italia e Espanha. Tournês na França, Alemanha, Suiça, Austria, Holanda, Belgica, Turquia, Canadá, Costa Rica, Argentina, Paraguai, Brasil, Itália, Brasil, etc. São inumeráveis as suas apresentaçoes em Roma, Rio, S. Paulo, Recife, B.Aires, Paris, Berlim, Colonia, Munique, Madrid, Barcelona, Istanbul, Ottawa, Quebec, entre outras.
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___________________DISCOGRAPHY:
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--1--“Città Colorata†- Cittá Nuova - Italy --
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--2-- “I Cumplimenti†- Cittá Nuova - Italy --
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--3-- “Cantico Nuovo†- Cittá Nuova - Italy --
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--4 -- “Poesia e Samba†- Cittá Nuova - Italy --
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-- 5 -- “Brasil Jerimum†- Folk Studio Roma - Italy --
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--6 -- “America Latente†- Projeto Memória UFRN -- Brazil --
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--7 -- “Brazil Encanto†- Music of the World - U.S.A. --
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-- 8 -- “Música de la Tierra†- Music of the World = U.S.A. --
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--9 -- “Global Voices†- Tico da Costa - Music of the World - U.S.A. --
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--10 -- “Con Sabor a Brasil†-- Tico da Costa e Palito Miranda - Blue Caps - Paraguay -
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--11 --“Choro Suite†- Tico da Costa - Basementfront Records - USA -
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--12 -- “Anjo das Selvas†- Tico da Costa - Prod. indep. - Brazil --
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--13 -- “Lagartixa†- Tico da Costa - Basementfront Records - USA -
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--14 -- “Mar†- Tico da Costa - Naturalmentearteventi - Itália -
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__________________All songs copyrights by Tico da Costa Music Co. Adm. by Dunvagen Music Publ., Inc.
(expt. partnships./ Irio de Paula, Ivan Wrigg)
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