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Nana Vasconcelos on stage at Vienne Jazz Festival, 2000. 11 Afro-Brazilian Percussionists You Need To Know
These Brazilian percussionists have broken sound frontiers, invented new instruments and thrilled musical giants such as Michael Jackson and Sarah Vaughan.
It isn t rare to forget that excellent drummer s name. While singers, band vocalists, and even composers are venerated among amateur music audiences, percussionists very often go unnoticed. Perhaps because percussionists are not usually the protagonists on stage, their identities or even their importance sometimes fall from the audience s sight.
But when it comes to Brazil s African-influenced music cultures, percussion is by no means secondary. To get into the roots of Afro-Brazilian music is to understand that percussionists such as
On the cusp of 80, the Brazilian icon reflects on decades of rhythm, melody and joyful living.Â
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When it comes to 20th-century Brazilian music, Sergio Mendes belongs to a rarefied group of musicians who participated in its creation.
âI remember Antônio Carlos Jobim showing me the song âÃguas de Março [Waters of March]â in the early 1970s,â Mendes says, casually confirming his status as an OG. âHe said, âCheck this out, I just wrote it.â And I said, âWow! Yeah, itâs magical!â But then, everything he wrote was brilliant.â A few years later, when Mendes made his first recording of the song, on his album