Marina Machado
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | INDIE
Music
Press
"... While Milton Nascimento's competent singer invited, Marina Machado, took over..." - The New York Times_ Critics_By Ben Ratliff
"... En el Tristesse, el timbre de la voz de Marina Machado llegó a producir escalofríos. Viene del rock y del teatro, y cantó con resonancias mediterráneas Going to California, de Led Zeppelin..." - El País_ Carlos Galilea
Acabo de chegar, emocionado, do show do novo CD de Marina Machado no Varanda Vivo Rio,no Atêrro do Flamengo, com uma lua cheia espelhada na Baía de Guanabara e nos jardins do Burle Marx.
Voz linda e potente, de menina que se transforma numa cantora rouca de blues,retomando o ar brejeiro para imediatamente assumir um personagem de femme fatal , de deusa hollywoodiana dos anos 30, Jean Harlow & Betty Boop; grita de dentro de todas as cavernas encaichoeiradas de Minas o seu grito de Janis Joplin brasileiríssima das Alterosas - passeia por corajosas releituras do repertório da Gal dos anos 70 (Ele já não gosta mais de mim/mas eu gosto dele mesmo assim);Edith Piaf e seu hino de amor à Paris (Padam) ; mescla a bossa nova homenageando-nos, os cariocas que a aplaudem, com a guitarra jimihendrixeana de seu solista Anderson; cita Norma Bengell cantando Oscarito no Homem do Sputinik parafraseando Brigitte Bardot, faz o que quer .
Como todo grande artista, vai de um extremo senso de humor até a tragédia sugerida nas canções de influência barroca de seu amigo Milton Nascimento.
E ainda com luxuosas participações especiais de Martnália e Marcos Valle.
Salve Marina do Rio ! Voce se pintou!
Luis Carlos Lacerda
- Luis Carlos Lacerda_ important cinema director
Discography
"Flávio Henrique e Marina Machado" 1997
"D'esoriente um País" 1998 ( besides Regina Spósito)
"Baile das Pulgas" 1999 (solo)
"Aos Olhos de Guignard"( besides Flávio Henrique e Trio Amaranto)
"Marina 6horas da Tarde" 2002 (solo)
"Candombe da Serra do Cipó" (Produced by Marina Machado)
"Pieta" by Milton Nascimento (Participacion besides Maria Rita, the daugther of Elis Regina, and Simone Gumarães) 2003
DVD "Pieta" By Milton Nascimento ( Alive) 2005
"O Coronel e o Lobisomem" (besides Milton Nascimento e Caetano Veloso) 2005
DVD"Hotel Maravilhoso" besides Chico Amaral e Flávio Henrique 2007
"Tempo Quente" 2008 produced by Milton Nascimento
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Bio
Marina Machado is from Belo Horizonte. She starts singing in 1991. She began singing Rock and Roll, was the band leader of bands like' Jota Quest' and sang with 'Skank'. Then she recorded music from the new composers of MPB from her state, till the members of the moviment "Clube da Esquina" hear her voice.
Than, she had the opportunity to sing with Beto Guedes, Lô Borges, Toninho Horta, Tavinho Moura and Milton Nascimento that became to be her music Godfather.
Her influences are: the music made by those members of the 'Clube da Esquina'; the 'Candombe' of Serra do Cipó (Candombe is a ritual where the peaple dance and sing a very primitive music that came from the blake slaves from Africa) and the theatre made on the streets ( Marina uses many theatre and dance technique on her stadium performance, usualy she is directed by actors of the famous theater group named :'Galpão').
On her last cd she recorded ballads such as neo-bossa, drum`n´bass, blues, and samba. Those rhythms imprinted a pop-like style on the album in which the artist talks about love, uneasiness and optimism. “Tempo Quente” brings Marina Machado’s interpretation of songs written by acclaimed artists such as Vinicius de Moraes, the partners Roberto Carlos & Erasmo, Marcos Valle, and Milton Nascimento. They match perfectly with the works of songwriters who are not in the limelight. This endeavor resulted in a splendid repertoire, carefully chosen by the artist . Milton Nascimento sings with her in one of the cd's track , the new best singers of Brasil, Seu Jorge, Samuel Rosa and Mart'nália, sang with her too.
Hermeto Pascoal expressed warm approval about her singin. He said:'... She sings a lot and this is very good for Brasil'.
She has a sweet, warm and precise voice and sings with a lot of personalit and is not by accident that cd is called 'Tempo Quente' Warm Weader.
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