Aracy Carvalho | zh

Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho (born May 5, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, and composer. She had sung on the radio from the age of seven, but her first LP was 1968's Andança. She had a variety of hits in the 1970s with her 1979 song Coisinha Do Pai being her biggest hit. The song was inserted into the Mars Pathfinder.[1] In the 1980s she started a "samba pagode" movement which used different instruments for samba and had no "pop" arrangements. She also set up samba schools and began doing more socially conscious music....

Considered the biggest interpreter of Noel Rosa, Aracy de Almeida (Aug 19, 1914 - Jun 20, 1988) started singing in churches in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro until being taken to the radio intermediary Custódio Mesquita in 1933. Soon she made radio fame as interpreter of the sambas of Philips, Mayrink Veiga, Ipanema and Tupi, and made history with fabulous interpretations of "Palpite Infeliz" (N. Rosa), "Tenha Pena de Mim" (C. Sousa/ Babaú), "Fez Bobagem (Brave Assis),"Camisa Amarela" (Ary Barroso) and "Feitiço da Vila" (N. Rosa/ Vadico). She was, next to Carmen Miranda, the biggest singer of sambas of...

Manuel Paulo de Carvalho Costa (born in Lisbon, May 15th 1947) is a Portuguese singer/songwriter. He started in the band "Os Sheiks", known as the "Portuguese Beatles", ended in 1968 by his call to the Portuguese army. When back from the army, he was a part of various projects (Fluido e Thilo´s Combo) before starting his solo career. He participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with the song 'E Depois do Adeus'. This song is widely know in Portugal as being a trigger for the start of the "Revolução dos Cravos" in the 25th April of 1974 that...

Guilherme Carvalho, born in 1974, is a Brazilian composer and a researcher in music. In Brasília, he studied the cello with Ataíde de Mattos, and composition with Jorge Antunes. Living in Paris since 2000, he has completed a doctorate at Université de Paris VIII, under the direction of Horacio Vaggione, and has also studied composition with José Manuel López López, Jacopo Baboni Schilingi and Hans Tutschku. In October 2002, his doctoral research was rewarded with the Aguirre-Basualdo scholarship, of the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris; he is the first musician to have received this award. He is presently a teacher...