Oswaldo G. Pereira
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | SELF
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Oswaldo G. Pereira is indeed a great artist.His repertoire consists basically of sambas and choros, all which are extremely well written and performed. In "Olha Zé" Oswaldo shows what he learned from the great names of brazilian music and presents us with carefully arranged songs. - João Pimentel - O Globo
Oswaldo G. Pereira is indeed a great artist.His repertoire consists basically of sambas and choros, all which are extremely well written and performed. In "Olha Zé" Oswaldo shows what he learned from the great names of brazilian music and presents us with carefully arranged songs. - João Pimentel - O Globo
Oswaldo G. Pereira surprises us with his fluency in the samba style with "Olha Ze". Unlike mainstream artists seem to be doing, Oswaldo incorporates s punk carelessness which thickens his witty repertoire filled with syncopated metaphors. - Tárik de Souza - Jornal Do Brasil
Oswaldo G. Pereira surprises us with his fluency in the samba style with "Olha Ze". Unlike mainstream artists seem to be doing, Oswaldo incorporates s punk carelessness which thickens his witty repertoire filled with syncopated metaphors. - Tárik de Souza - Jornal Do Brasil
Discography
"Olha Zé" (1998)
"As árvores" (2005)
"Serenata" (2007)
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When he was a child, Oswaldo G. Pereira fell in love with Brazilian music from the twenties and the thirties. His favourite pastime in his childhood was to search 78s at the second hand shops in Rio de Janeiro containing performances of Francisco Alves, Mario Reis, Carmem Miranda and other idols of the golden era of Brazilian music.A defining moment of his musical career happened at the age of eight, putting on the record player the original version of the samba "Com que roupa " in the voice of Noel Rosa. The agile rhymes and the neat melodies of the poet from Vila Isabel marked the boy to such an extent that from that point on, he dived into the work of Noel, Lamartine Babo, Ary Barroso and Sinho. Inspired by these composers, Oswaldo created his own pre-bossa-nova authorial style with the musical "calligraphy" of the Ismael Silva and Bide sambas of the Estacio neighborhood.He entered the Carioca music and poetry scene by participating, along with many artists of his generation, in the multimedia project CEP 20.000. This was where he collaborated with the group Boato and Pedro Luis e a Parede. His first album "Olha Ze" won the Sharp Award - the highest honor of the Brazilian recording industry at that time, in the samba category.
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