CURATION
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Name:
Hamilton de Holanda
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City/Place:
Rio de Janeiro
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Country:
Brazil
Life
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Bio:
Hamilton de Holanda nasceu em 30 de março de 1976 em uma família musical. Seu primeiro instrumento, aos quatro anos de idade, foi a Melódica. Dois anos depois (1982), começou sua carreira profissional, aos seis anos de idade, como um prodígio do bandolim em um programa de TV nacional (Fantástico) com uma audiência de milhões de pessoas. Hoje, como compositor, improvisador, líder de banda, a música deste educador transcende os gêneros e encanta o público.
A construção de sua música vem do incentivo familiar, da consolidação do diploma universitário em composição e da liberdade das tocatas nas ruas da capital brasileira, Brasília, onde cresceu. Seu primeiro gênero foi o Choro, uma herança cultural brasileira, primo do Jazz.
Hamilton foi um dos fundadores da primeira Escola de Choro no mundo (Brasília, 1997) e idealizou a petição ao Congresso Nacional para conceder ao Choro um Dia Nacional. Como resultado, desde 23 de abril de 2000 é comemorado no Brasil o Dia Oficial do Choro, por proclamação do então presidente brasileiro, expondo a primeira música popular brasileira ao povo.
Também em 2000, um ano emblemático para ele, reinventou o tradicional Bandolim de 8 cordas adicionando um par de cordas graves extras afinadas em Dó (indo de 8 a 10), dando-lhe uma voz mais profunda que emancipa o emblemático instrumento brasileiro do legado de algumas de suas influências e gêneros. O aumento no número de cordas, combinado com os solos rápidos, contrapontos e improvisações, inspira uma nova geração a pegar o bandolim de 10 cordas.
O tocar e improvisar de Hamilton transcende limitações e gêneros. Hoje ele viaja para os diferentes cantos do planeta "trazendo seu coração na ponta dos dedos", apresentando suas próprias composições com seu som característico. Ele interage com outras tradições musicais, conjuntos e instrumentos. Isso permite que ele seja o solista convidado do Wynton Marsalis e sua Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, ou execute suas próprias composições com orquestras sinfônicas de todo o mundo; dos Festivais Rock/Pop ao megashow de Dave Matthews Band no The Gorge; do lendário palco do Central Park em Nova York aos Jogos Olímpicos no Rio de Janeiro; dos nobres museus como o Smithsonian em Washington ou o Grand Palais de Paris até o nosso famoso Carnaval no Rio de Janeiro. Lugares como Austrália, Paris, Alemanha, Amsterdã, Roma, Noruega, Los Angeles e outras cidades e festivais ao redor do mundo.
Hamilton é muito ativo nas redes sociais, onde seus números globais, para um músico instrumental, são impressionantes. No Brasil, ele alcançou status de estrela, recebendo o carinho do público nas ruas e vários prêmios de críticos e pares. É um músico multipremiado, vencedor de vários Grammy Latinos, Prêmio da Música Brasileira, Echo Jazz, Choc e inúmeras indicações.
O apoio popular e o desejo nato de retribuir o inspirou a promover concertos beneficentes para as grandes tragédias e projetos sociais no Brasil, como o ABRACE, que oferece assistência social a crianças e adolescentes com câncer e doenças do sangue. Hamilton também apoia programas musicais para pessoas de áreas economicamente desfavorecidas para reforçar sua imagem e ajudar os jovens a encontrar inspiração e emprego.
Hamilton tem uma longa discografia, seja com suas próprias composições ou homenagens a alguns de seus ídolos. Ele lançou suas gravações em sua própria gravadora independente, Brasilianos, ou em parceiros mundiais como Universal, ECM, MPS, Adventure Music. Ele entende que a indústria musical precisa de definições de categorias para a música que toca, como por exemplo Jazz, Brazilian Jazz, Brazilian Popular Music; mas para ele a inspiração transcende os rótulos, é algo que cresce livremente sem a necessidade de ser definido. E assim vai!
Ele gosta de se explicar como um explorador musical em busca de beleza e espontaneidade.
Hamilton dividiu o palco ou gravou com Wynton Marsalis, Chick Corea, The Dave Matthews Band, Paulinho da Costa, Chucho Valdes, Egberto Gismonti, Ivan Lins, Milton Nascimento, Joshua Redman, Hermeto Pascoal, Gilberto Gil, Richard Galliano e John Paul Jones, Bela Fleck, Stefano Bollani entre muitos outros.
English:
Hamilton de Holanda was born on March 30, 1976, into a musical family. His first instrument, at the age of four, was the Melodica. Two years later (1982), he began his professional career, at the age of six, as a mandolin prodigy on a national TV program (Fantástico) with an audience of millions. Today, as a composer, improviser, band leader, the music of this educator transcends genres and enchants the audience.
The construction of his music comes from family encouragement, the consolidation of a university degree in composition, and the freedom of playing in the streets of the Brazilian capital, Brasília, where he grew up. His first genre was Choro, a Brazilian cultural heritage, cousin of Jazz.
Hamilton was one of the founders of the first Choro School in the world (Brasília, 1997) and conceived the petition to the National Congress to grant Choro a National Day. As a result, since April 23, 2000, Brazil has celebrated the Official Day of Choro, by proclamation of the then Brazilian president, exposing the first Brazilian popular music to the people.
Also in 2000, an emblematic year for him, he reinvented the traditional 8-string Mandolin by adding a pair of extra bass strings tuned in C (going from 8 to 10), giving it a deeper voice that emancipates the emblematic Brazilian instrument from the legacy of some of its influences and genres. The increase in the number of strings, combined with rapid solos, counterpoints, and improvisations, inspires a new generation to pick up the 10-string mandolin.
Hamilton's playing and improvisation transcend limitations and genres. Today he travels to different corners of the planet "bringing his heart at the tip of his fingers," presenting his own compositions with his characteristic sound. He interacts with other musical traditions, ensembles, and instruments. This allows him to be the guest soloist of Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, or perform his own compositions with symphony orchestras around the world; from Rock/Pop Festivals to the Dave Matthews Band megashow at The Gorge; from the legendary stage of Central Park in New York to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro; from prestigious museums like the Smithsonian in Washington or the Grand Palais in Paris to our famous Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Places like Australia, Paris, Germany, Amsterdam, Rome, Norway, Los Angeles, and other cities and festivals around the world.
Hamilton is very active on social media, where his global numbers, for an instrumental musician, are impressive. In Brazil, he has achieved star status, receiving the affection of the public on the streets and numerous awards from critics and peers. He is a multi-award-winning musician, winner of several Latin Grammys, Brazilian Music Award, Echo Jazz, Choc, and numerous nominations.
Popular support and the innate desire to give back inspired him to promote benefit concerts for major tragedies and social projects in Brazil, such as ABRACE, which provides social assistance to children and adolescents with cancer and blood diseases. Hamilton also supports music programs for economically disadvantaged people to reinforce his image and help young people find inspiration and employment.
Hamilton has a long discography, whether with his own compositions or tributes to some of his idols. He has released his recordings on his own independent label, Brasilianos, or with global partners like Universal, ECM, MPS, Adventure Music. He understands that the music industry needs category definitions for the music it plays, such as Jazz, Brazilian Jazz, Brazilian Popular Music; but for him, inspiration transcends labels, it's something that grows freely without needing to be defined. And so it goes!
He likes to explain himself as a musical explorer in search of beauty and spontaneity.
Hamilton has shared the stage or recorded with Wynton Marsalis, Chick Corea, The Dave Matthews Band, Paulinho da Costa, Chucho Valdes, Egberto Gismonti, Ivan Lins, Milton Nascimento, Joshua Redman, Hermeto Pascoal, Gilberto Gil, Richard Galliano, and John Paul Jones, Bela Fleck, Stefano Bollani among many others.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Empresário Artistico / Worldwide Manager
Marcos Portinari
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+55 21 992478157
Produção / Artist Production
Fellipe Cabral
+ 55 21 98166-8025
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Contratações no exterior / Booking outside Brazil
EUROPE / ASIA
Katherine McVicker
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+1 781-300-7580
+1 339-927-5289
musicworksinternational.com
USA
Eric Gerber
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+ 1 415 299-0289
royalartistgroup.com
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The Integrated Global Creative Economy
Wolfram Mathematics
This technological matrix originating in Bahia, Brazil and positioning creators around the world within reach of each other and the entire planet is able to do so because it is small-world (see Wolfram).
Bahia itself, final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place on earth throughout all of human history, refuge for Lusitanian Sephardim fleeing the Inquisition, Indigenous both apart and subsumed into a brilliant sociocultural matrix comprised of these three peoples and more, is small-world.
Human society, the billions of us in all the complexity of our relationships, is small-world. Neural structures for human memory are small-world, neural structures in artificial intelligence are small-world...
In small worlds great things are possible. In a matrix they can be created.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"I'm truly thankful ... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
—Nduduzo Makhathini (JOHANNESBURG): piano, Blue Note recording artist
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
Dear friends & colleagues,
Having arrived in Salvador 13 years earlier, I opened a record shop in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for Bahian musicians, many of them magisterial but unknown.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Bahians and other Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix (people who have passed are not removed), then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Recent access to this matrix and Bahia are from these places (a single marker can denote multiple accesses).
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Nduduzo Makhathini
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Matt Garrison
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