The diplomatic career took him away from music for a while. In Los Angeles where he has been stationed during five years as a consul, he made acquaintance with the cinema. With "Orfeu da Conceição", musical film made in partnership with Antonio Carlos Jobim in the 50s, the musician has found himself. He composes with Pixinguinha, Carlos Lyra, Baden Powell and Edu Lobo. "Bossa Nova" adopts him as its "Guru". In August 1962, he made his first big show, at the Bon Gourmet nightclub, with Tom Jobim and João Gilberto. Nobody would take him away from the stages ever more.
Out of diplomacy, Vinicius becomes also a show-man a singer with a strange and tuned voice, a happy man who would enrich his songs with tales about life and unforgettable stories. Partnership with Toquinho, in his last ten years of life, took him to endless travels and university tours and made a star of him. Audience from Argentina and Italy in particular bowed before Vinicius. The results over his poetic career ms striking because poet and musician became only one.
One of national unanimity's considered as one of the geniuses of Brazilian popular music, the instrumentalist composer and arranger Pixinguinha (Alfredo da Rocha Viana; Junior) ms born on April 23, 1898, in Piedade, in north Rio de Janeiro, and died on February 17, 1973 in the same city Grandchild of African woman, Pixinguinha started as; child with "Lata de leite" to compose his "choros" and to play as professional flautist. In 1922, he went to Paris where during five or six months he presented a show together with the Oito Batutas, a group he had formed to cheer up the waiting room of a Rio de Janeiro cinema, which become the first regional Brazilian group to be contracted to go on tour abroad. In the French capital where the group ms a great success, Pixinguinha was given a saxophone, instrument to which he dedicate himself from 1946 on.
Before that, during the World War I, Pixinguinha was introduced to his first recording at the "Casas Edson', "Phoenix' and "Faulhaber' with a group that included three of his brother Lester he would organize other important musical group like the so-called—on the Parlaphon records "Orquestra Tipica; Pixinguinha - Donga" (1928); the "Diabos do Céu" (1929/30) a "Guarda Velha" (1932), and the "Orquestra Colúmbia do Pixinguinha". He gave his collaboration to cinema as well composing the songs for the films "Sol sobre a lama" e "Um dia qualquer".
Virtuoso of the flute, master of saxophone improvisations and pioneer in orchestration, in Brazil, Pixinguinha was always leading the musical evolution at his times. He played a decisive role in the process of integrating percussion instruments c African origin with those of European origin, which was essential for the genesis of the today Brazilian Popular Music. Pixinguinha composed approximately two thousand songs, some hits c permanent place in the repertoire of Brazilian popular singer Such is the case of "Carinhoso", "Rosa", "Ingênuo" "Lamento", "Urubu" and "Um a zero".
Neto de africana, Pixinguinha começou ainda menino com Lata de leite a compor os seus choros e a tocar como flautista profissional. Em 1922, apresentou-se, durante cinco ou seis meses, em Paris, com os Oito Batutas, conjunto que formara para animar a sala de espera de um cinema carioca e que foi o primeiro regional brasileiro contratado para excursionar ao exterior. Na capital francesa, donde o conjunto retornou consagrado, Pixinguinha ganhou de presente um saxofone, instrumento ao qual passou a se dedicar em 1946.
Antes disso, durante a I Guerra Mundial, Pixinguinha estreara na gravação, nas Casas Edson, Phoenix e Faulhaber, com um conjunto de que participavam três dos seus irmãos. Ele organizaria outros grupos musicais importantes, como um conjunto chamado, nos discos da Parlaphon, de Orquestra Tipica Pixinguinha-Donga (1928); os Diabos do Céu (1929/30), a Guarda Velha (1932) e a Orquestra Columbia de Pixinguinha. Colaborou também para o cinema nacional compondo as trilhas sonoras dos filmes Sol sobre a /ama é Um dia qualquer.
Virtuose da flauta, mestre do improviso no saxofone e pioneiro em orquestração no Brasil, Pixinguinha esteve sempre à frente da evolução musical de seu tempo. Desempenhou inclusive, papel decisivo no processo de integração dos instrumentos de percussão de origem africana aos de procedência européia, fundamental para a gênese do que é hoje a MPB. Pixinguinha compôs quase duas mil músicas, algumas de presença permanente no repertório dos seresteiros e chorões brasileiros, como Carinhoso, Rosa, Ingenuo, Lamento Urubu e Um a zero.
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