![]() Now, by the time that you begin to work in the festivals there’s a lot of music that’s coming from all over the world that you’re listening to. We had some geniuses in bossa nova like Antonio Carlos Jobim, the best genius. Bossa nova was a fruit of this grown-up cultural. The industry was beginning and there was the liberty for the people to vote for a president and have many good things in Brazil at that time. Brazil was growing culturally and a main part of the cultural life is the first car fabricated in Brazil. And the first festival of movies – Cannes Film Festival. Yeah, bossa nova began before the dictatorship, some time when Brazil won the first football championship, the international world cup. I see, a lot of the bossa nova songs are very much songs of, I guess, yearning, a deep feeling, yeah?Īnd it seems interesting to me that you would have this music at the time when the government was so repressive, when the dictatorship was so strong. Oh no, I meant the idea, the name of the song.Īh, the name of the song. This has a harmony, Brazilian harmony, so. ![]() “Saudade demais” means sort of a blues type of feeling for home, no? Something like that? How would you translate it?Īh, no. ( music: plays Arthur Verocai - “Saudade Demais” on acoustic guitar / applause) “Saudade Demais” is the title, the lyrics are by Paulinho Tapajós, Little Paul Tapajós. Yes, I will play you a song that was on the international festival of Rio.Īh, OK, let’s turn this microphone over. I used the festival to open my career for arrangements.ĭo you want to play for us any one of the songs that you might have written or that have influenced you? And Brazil, we have the people of the bossa nova, Tom Jobim, Leny Andrade and others, and the others. What type of ideas went to your arrangements at the time? I know that you have a lot of training.Īt the time, Burt Bacharach had much success, Jimmy Webb and the American people. ![]() I began to make the arrangements to my songs and went to other people, other composers liked it and I began my career with arrangements of my songs. And after this, I participated in music festivals with my songs, and in 1969 I made my first arrangement, because I used my music in these festivals to show my arrangements. Yeah, I don’t remember how old I was, but very young. My first music record was by Leny Andrade, a great Brazilian singer.Īnd you were only 21, or even younger, when you were doing that? We will talk about some of your songs on your record that talked about that, but I’m also interested in that you said you’re a “son of bossa nova." So many composers said the things indirectly. Many composers were making music and not releasing the music because the government censored the lyrics. And the dictatorship was in Brazil at that time, and the people and the rhythms and many music styles and lyrics were. I was listening to many styles of music, you know, but I began to play bossa nova. What was it like for you to be a young person in the ’60s? So Arthur, why don’t we start with what it was like for you growing up, coming of age during the 1960s in Brazil? There was a lot of music, there was a very repressive government and there were a lot of things happening. I don’t speak English very well, and it’s a surprise to me to meet so many nice and sympathetic people. I’m glad to meet all of you, and thank you for all. Thank you to Red Bull and all the great people who are here. Verocai is also going to grace us with his beautiful guitar and his beautiful stylings. So we’re going to just take it very slowly like the rhythms of Brazil and hear a lot of music, hear a lot of history and Mr. Now, Arthur has traveled a very long way to get here, as many of us have, and we all remember how that first day was after we traveled. This is a record that came out in 1972 in Brazil out of Rio de Janeiro, and the genius behind this record is here on the couch with us today. Today we are very happy and honoured to have with us a legend. Welcome this afternoon for another electric session here at the Red Bull Music Academy.
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