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Name:
Luizinho Calixto
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City/Place:
Campina Grande, Paraíba
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Country:
Brazil
Life
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Bio:
Natural de Campina Grande - PB, Luizinho Calixto nasceu em 1956 em uma família de sanfoneiros de oito baixos. Aos dez anos, decidiu seguir os passos de seu pai, "Seu Dideus", e de seus irmãos, Zé Calixto, Bastinho Calixto e João Calixto. Na sanfona de oito baixos, quando uma nota é pressionada e abre-se o fole, ocorre a emissão de um determinado tom. Mantendo-se a mesma nota pressionada e fechando-se o fole, outro tom é emitido. Na Europa, existem nove modelos de afinação desse instrumento, conhecido por lá como "Diatônico", com um sistema de afinação muito diferente do que se toca no Nordeste do Brasil (conhecido por modelo de "afinação transportada"). A família de Luizinho é referência na execução do fole de oito baixos na afinação transportada.
Luizinho Calixto também é reconhecido por ser o primeiro artista brasileiro a cantar e se acompanhar com a sanfona de oito baixos no modelo de afinação mais comum no Nordeste brasileiro, fazendo uso dos recursos de harmonia aprendidos com Zé Calixto (irmão mais velho), que foi pioneiro em adaptá-lo para acompanhamento, rompendo com o paradigma de que seu instrumento somente serviria para o solo de músicas instrumentais.
Ele criou o primeiro método escrito para a sanfona de oito baixos no modelo de afinação nordestina, uma vez que o ensino do instrumento era tradicionalmente feito oralmente. Com o método, ministrou cursos de fole de oito baixos em Recife, Exu, Caruaru, Fortaleza e, a partir de 2014, foi convidado para ser professor em um Projeto de Extensão da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, passando a ministrar aulas em Campina Grande. O curso é mantido pela Universidade até hoje e tem sido um marco para o surgimento de pessoas interessadas em perpetuar a tradição do instrumento. Ele também tem ministrado palestras em encontros de sanfoneiros promovidos pela Universidade no interior da Paraíba, onde fala da história da sanfona de oito baixos, relatando também as experiências de outros grandes nomes da nossa música que começaram suas trajetórias com a sanfona de 8 baixos.
Luizinho gravou seu primeiro disco, "Vamos dançar forró", em 1976, aos 19 anos, quando residia no Rio de Janeiro, onde também teve a oportunidade de tocar com Sivuca, Jackson do Pandeiro e Luiz Gonzaga. Ao todo, são dezoito discos gravados entre vinis e CDs, onde toca ritmos tradicionais, xotes, forrós, frevos, sambas, choros, baiões, e alguns ritmos que nunca haviam sido tocados por um sanfoneiro de oito baixos: tango, bolero, valsa, bossa nova, destacando-se um dos traços mais marcantes do seu trabalho que é a virtuose dos improvisos. Tem sucessos gravados por Beto Barbosa, Dominguinhos, Zé Calixto, Bastinho Calixto, entre outros. Já acompanhou grandes nomes da música popular brasileira como Chico Cesar, Dominguinhos, Osvaldinho do Acordeom, Elba Ramalho, Zé Calixto, Fagner, entre outros. Em 1982, a convite de Messias Holanda, mudou-se para Fortaleza, cidade onde passou a maior parte de sua carreira, inicialmente se apresentando no Forró Levanta Poeira em seguida trilhando caminhos novos para a sanfona de oito baixos, chegando a se apresentar com a Orquestra Filarmônica do Ceará no Teatro José de Alencar e participar do filme de Florinda Bolkan "Eu não conhecia Tururú".
Luizinho também possui uma sólida carreira internacional, se apresentando em Cabo Verde, na África, na Argentina, em Portugal, Espanha, França, Itália e, em novembro de 2017, passou um mês em turnê pela Europa, tocando na Suíça e na Alemanha. Também tem participações em encontros de sanfoneiros como jurado e ministrando palestras e workshops a respeito da tradição cultural de seu instrumento. Dentre alguns dos encontros destaca-se o Encontro Internacional de Sanfoneiros promovido pelo presidente da associação de sanfoneiros do Brasil, na cidade de JAHU-SP, Sr. Lauro Valério. Na oportunidade, Luizinho se apresentou com o acordeonista italiano Mirco Pattarini, um dos maiores acordeonistas da Europa e sócio da marca Scandalli.
Luizinho Calixto possui diferentes formatos de shows, desde os mais vinculados ao forró tradicional, onde canta músicas de Luiz Gonzaga, Jackson do Pandeiro, Trio Nordestino, Dominguinhos, também músicas de sua autoria e outras mais recentes interpretadas por Flávio José, Santana, e tem os formatos de shows com músicas instrumentais onde apresenta os mais variados estilos musicais, forrós instrumentais, frevos, chorinhos, bossa-nova, choro-jazz. Ele é compositor, diretor musical, multi-instrumentista, percussionista, também domina a sanfona de cento e vinte baixos, toca violão, cavaquinho e, nas horas vagas, é desenhista e artista plástico.
English:
Luizinho Calixto, born in 1956 in Campina Grande - PB, into a family of eight-bass accordionists, decided at the age of ten to follow in the footsteps of his father, "Seu Dideus," and his brothers, Zé Calixto, Bastinho Calixto, and João Calixto. In the eight-bass accordion, when a key is pressed and the bellows are opened, a certain pitch is emitted. Keeping the same key pressed and closing the bellows emits another pitch. In European countries, there are nine tuning models for this instrument, known there as "Diatonic," with a tuning system very different from that played in Northeast Brazil (known as the "transposed tuning" model). Luizinho's family is a reference in the execution of the eight-bass accordion in the transposed tuning.
Luizinho Calixto is also recognized for being the first Brazilian artist to sing and accompany himself with the eight-bass accordion in the most common tuning model in Northeast Brazil, using harmony resources learned from Zé Calixto (older brother), who pioneered adapting it for accompaniment, breaking the paradigm that his instrument would only serve for instrumental music solos.
He created the first written method for the eight-bass accordion in the Northeastern tuning model, as the instrument was traditionally taught orally. With the method, he taught eight-bass accordion courses in Recife, Exu, Caruaru, Fortaleza, and, from 2014 onwards, he was invited to be a teacher in an Extension Project at the State University of Paraíba, teaching in Campina Grande. The course is maintained by the University to this day and has been a milestone in the emergence of people interested in perpetuating the instrument's tradition. He has also given lectures at accordionist meetings promoted by the University in the interior of Paraíba, where he speaks about the history of the eight-bass accordion, also recounting the experiences of other great names in our music who began their careers with the eight-bass accordion.
Luizinho recorded his first album, "Let's Dance Forró," in 1976, at the age of 19, when he lived in Rio de Janeiro, where he also had the opportunity to play with Sivuca, Jackson do Pandeiro, and Luiz Gonzaga. In total, he has recorded eighteen albums between vinyl and CDs, where he plays traditional rhythms, xotes, forrós, frevos, sambas, choros, baiões, and some rhythms that had never been played by an eight-bass accordionist: tango, bolero, waltz, bossa nova, highlighting one of the most striking features of his work, which is the virtuosity of improvisation. He has had successes recorded by Beto Barbosa, Dominguinhos, Zé Calixto, Bastinho Calixto, among others. He has accompanied great names of Brazilian popular music such as Chico Cesar, Dominguinhos, Osvaldinho do Acordeom, Elba Ramalho, Zé Calixto, Fagner, among others. In 1982, at the invitation of Messias Holanda, he moved to Fortaleza, where he spent most of his career, initially performing at Forró Levanta Poeira and then paving new paths for the eight-bass accordion, even performing with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Ceará at the José de Alencar Theater and participating in Florinda Bolkan's film "I Didn't Know Tururú."
Luizinho also has a solid international career, performing in Cape Verde, Africa, Argentina, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, and, in November 2017, he spent a month on tour in Europe, playing in Switzerland and Germany. He also participates in accordionist meetings as a judge and giving lectures and workshops on the cultural tradition of his instrument. Among some of the meetings, the International Meeting of Accordionists stands out, promoted by the president of the Brazilian accordionists' association, in the city of JAHU-SP, Mr. Lauro Valério. On that occasion, Luizinho performed with the Italian accordionist Mirco Pattarini, one of the greatest accordionists in Europe and a partner of the Scandalli brand.
Luizinho Calixto has different formats of shows, from those more linked to traditional forró, where he sings songs by Luiz Gonzaga, Jackson do Pandeiro, Trio Nordestino, Dominguinhos, as well as songs of his own and others more recent interpreted by Flávio José, Santana, to instrumental music shows where he presents the most varied musical styles, instrumental forrós, frevos, chorinhos, bossa-nova, choro-jazz. He is a composer, musical director, multi-instrumentalist, percussionist, also mastering the one-hundred-twenty-bass accordion, playing guitar, cavaquinho, and, in his spare time, is a draftsman and visual artist.
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In small worlds great things are possible.
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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.
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