Artist: Carlinhos Brown
Genre(s):
Other
Latin
Discography:
Candyall Beat (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Candyall Beat (CD 1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Bahia do Mundo: Mito e Verdade
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Privileged percussionist Carlinhos Brown likewise establish his way as a composer and vocalizer, displaying all his musical virtues in several albums which were released afterwards 1996's Alfagamabetizado. He has had over 200 of his songs recorded by many interpreters like Marisa Monte ("Segue o Seco," "Maria de Verdade," "Arrepio," "Magamalabares"), Gal Costa, Daniela Mercury ("Rapunzel," "Rimas Irmãs"), Cássia Eller, Daúde ("Lavanda"), and Sepultura. More than 30 of them reached the Brazilian big top parade. Sérgio Mendes's Brasileiro, which had fin songs by Brown, was awarded with a Grammy. Brown likewise recorded with Herbie Hancock.
Carlinhos Brown's number one and most important percussion mentor was Mestre Pintado do Bongô (Osvaldo Alves da Silva), with whom he learned to highly heed the rich tradition of Brazilian folklore (specially that of Bahia). In 1980, Brown, already one of the most-reputed percussionists in Bahia, worked in a modest recording companionship in Salvador, where he polished his recording and production skills doing jingles. At the same fourth dimension, he sour his perception towards a deduction of Brazilian rhythms with international bug out music, organism among the kickoff waves of world music. His number one constitution to hit the radios was "Visão Do Ciclope," recorded by LuÃs Caldas in 1984. In the next class, he was invited by Caetano Veloso to join his band. Veloso recorded Brown's "Meia Lua Inteira" (Estrangeiro, 1989), which was afterward included in the soundtrack of the soap opera Tieta. In that period, Brown likewise worked with Gilberto Gil and Gal Costa and participated in populace tours by names like João Gilberto, Djavan, and João Bosco. In the '90s, he formed the Timbalada, a drum band with more than 120 instrumentalists and singers which recorded various albums and developed its own successful trajectory, which began in the Carnival of Bahia. The Timbalada was Brown's number one project that he consecrate to promoting social actions directed to lester Willis Young poor boys and girls from Salvador; among its goals, the project aimed to provide education Department for street children.
