Curations in
Curations out
Who's taking you?
- Curation by: The Artist
Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Jorge Ben
- City: Rio de Janeiro
- Country: Brazil
My Life
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Bio:
When bossa nova was in full commercial flower a kid came roaring out of Rio de Janeiro with his own way of playing guitar and his own way of writing songs.
Half Ethiopian and all Brazilian, Jorge Ben (as Jorge Duílio Lima Meneses was calling himself, the "Ben" coming from his African mother's maiden name) had a way -- even by Brazilian standards! -- of making people move.
He still does.
My Media
- Instagram: jorgebenjoroficial
Click to Listen on Spotify
- (album/podcast 2): http://open.spotify.com/album/3xWp6y0HGsHZlXljNs7VRy
- (album/podcast 3): http://open.spotify.com/album/5rcMJNWebtl2r2S18Je1A0
- (album/podcast 4): http://open.spotify.com/album/3V3XJ3Sh62jPUYUMSQ1Tsf
► Wikipedia: A small-world network is a type of mathematical graph in which...most nodes can be reached from every other node by a small number of hops or steps.
► The Matrix: A small-world network re a type of mathematical graph in which...most artists can be reached from every other artist by a small number of hops or steps.
► Matrix headquarters in Salvador, Bahia. Interview is by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio. Pre Brazil I "rescued" royalties for Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Ray Barretto, Airto Moreira, Earl Carroll of The Cadillacs, Rob Royer of Bread, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), and others.
► The work was a variation of industrial espionage; record companies didn't play fair so neither did we. Here in Brazil I work with musicians who don't earn royalties but who are no less amazing for it.
► The matrix is a means of leveraging the sociological/mathematical phenomenon called "small-world networking" to make these people and their art discoverable and accessible from all around the world. But for the system to work for them, it has to work for everybody.
