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Oswaldo Viveiros Montenegro (Rio de Janeiro, March 15, 1956) is a Brazilian musician. In addition to being a singer, Montenegro has composed soundtracks for plays, ballets, film, and television [1] and was married to actress Paloma Duarte. It has one of the stronger partnerships MPB beside Madalena Salles, accompanying with their flutes.
Leci Brandão is a Brazilian politician, singer and composer of Brazilian Popular Music. She is the daughter of Pérola Negra, one of the artists who pioneered in making the Brazilian pagode music popular throughout the land. Her performance of "Quero Sim" won the National Meeting of Samba Composers in 1973.
Luiz Carlos dos Santos, widely known by his stage name Luiz Melodia, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose music was a characteristic crossover of multiple Music genres including Música popular brasileira (MPB), rock music, blues, soul music and samba. He has been described as 'one of the most important Brazilian-born musicians.'
Pedro Anibal de Oliveira Gomes, better known as Pepeu Gomes is an accomplished Brazilian guitar player, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was one of the members of Novos Baianos.
Humberto Gessinger is best known as the musician, guitarist, and bassist from the Brazilian band Engenheiros do Hawaii.
Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho, known professionally as Beth Carvalho, was a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer.
Som Livre is a Brazilian record company that was founded in 1969 in order to commercialize the soundtracks for Rede Globo soap operas. It later expanded to recording studio albums.
Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, whose artistic name was Miúcha, was a Brazilian singer and composer.
Kleiton & Kledir are a duo of Brazilian singers and songwriters, composed of brothers Kleiton Ramil and Kledir Ramil. They are also brothers of singer-songwriter Vitor Ramil.
Leny de Andrade Lima, known professionally as Leny Andrade, was born in Rio de Janeiro, on January 26, 1943, and is a Brazilian singer and musician. Both Andrade's first and last names are sometimes misspelled in English as "Lenn", "Leni", and "Adrade". She has had several hits on the Brazilian charts. In 2007 she shared a Latin Grammy Award with Cesar Camargo Mariano for Best MPB Album, Ao Vivo.
Pro-Música Brasil (PMB), previously Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPD), is an official representative body of the record labels in the Brazilian phonographic market.
Diogo Nogueira is a singer and songwriter from Brazil. He is the son of composer João Nogueira and Ângela Maria Nogueira. He was a samba musician throughout childhood and adolescence, but became a football player.
MPB4 is a vocal and instrumental Brazilian group formed in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, in 1965, and has been active since. The group's main genres are sung samba and MPB, and they are considered among the best vocal interpretation group in Brazil. They have frequently collaborated with Quarteto em Cy, Toquinho and Chico Buarque. In 2001, MPB-4 completed a 36-year career with the same formation.
The discography of Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia consists of 34 studio albums, 15 live albums, several participations in movie and telenovela soundtracks as well as numerous collaborations with other artists.
Sorriso Maroto is a Brazilian pagode band originating from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was formed in 1997 by singer and tambourine player Cris Oliveira, and later headed by singer-songwriter Bruno Cardoso. They have released ten albums.
Flávio Hugo Venturini is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.
Henrique & Juliano, sometimes written Henrique e Juliano, is a Brazilian sertanejo duo. Their single, "Cuida bem dela", was number 1 for 8 weeks in Brasil Hot 100 Airplay and has been accessed by over 220 million viewers on YouTube.
Antônio Carlos Moreira Pires, better known as Moraes Moreira[mo.ˈɾajs mu.ˈɾej.ɾa], was a Brazilian musician and songwriter. During the 1970s he played guitar and sang in the band Novos Baianos, after which he embarked on a solo career recording 29 albums. Moreira was involved in recording 40 full-length albums with Novos Baianos and Trio Elétrico Dodô e Osmar, and two more albums with guitarist Pepeu Gomes. Moreira was one of the most versatile composers of Brazil, mixing the genres of rock, samba, choro, frevo, baião, and classical.
Xuxa só para Baixinhos 4 - Praia is the twenty-sixth studio album and the nineteenth in Portuguese by singer and Brazilian presenter Xuxa, released by Som Livre on July 25, 2003. It is the fourth album in the collection Só Para Baixinhos.
Fábio José de Melo Silva, better known as Padre (Father) Fábio de Melo, is a Catholic priest, artist, writer, university professor and presenter. He belonged to the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He acts in the Diocese of Taubaté, in the interior of the State of São Paulo. As a singer, he recorded eight albums for the Paulinas-COMEP Catholic record label, one for the record company Canção Nova, an independent project. His first record for a secular record company, Vida, was released by LGK Music and by Som Livre, with whom he continues to record, having already released two more albums by the end of 2009. In all, Fábio de Melo has sold more than 3 million copies of CDs, in addition to 3.5 million books. As a university professor, he taught theology at the Dehonian College of Taubaté. Nowadays, he presents the program Spiritual Direction, transmitted by TV Canção Nova every Wednesday at 10 pm, with reruns on Saturdays at 8 pm and at dawn on Monday, at 1 am.
A Cor do Som is a Brazilian musical group that spun off the backing band that supported Moraes Moreira following his departure from Novos Baianos. Originally this was the name of a side project of Novos Baianos itself which members lived together and experimented with music that blended elements of samba, rock, frevo, choro and baião. The name of the group was suggested by Caetano Veloso and inspired by a song by Moreira and Luis Galvão.
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