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Concert: Bossa Brasil
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Roberto Menescal
The instrumentalist and composer Roberto Menescal was one of the founders of Bossa Nova movement. Participated in the historic Bossa Nova Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, with Tom Jobim, Carlos Lyra, and others. He had several compositions of his included in soundtracks of broadly popular TV soap operas and also wrote music for the cinema. Nowadays is one of the most importants names of Brazilian Music. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wanda Sá
The bossa nova singer. At age 13, she was having guitar lessons with Roberto Menescal. At age 19, she released "Inútil Paisagem" (Tom Jobim and Aloysio de Oliveira). Her debut album, "Wanda Vagamente", came out in 1964. Then she joined Sérgio Mendes' group Brasil 65, playing the college circuit in the USA. She was spotted by Dave Cavanaugh, Nat King Cole's and Frank Sinatra's agent. Wanda made two albums in the U.S. with Brasil 65 and the solo "Softly". Back to Brazil, she performed with Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes. By the late 1980s, she met again with her old teacher, Menescal, and made a comeback. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Danilo Caymmi
Danilo Caymmi, Roberto Menescal and Vanda Sá, brings together the greatest classics of Bossa Nova, including a beautiful tribute to Tom Jobim and important names of the movement. Each artist shows a little of his work to the very sound of swing and poetry, the richness, the softness and charm of Bossa Nova. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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