Bio:
Marcos Kostenbader Valle, nascido em 14 de setembro de 1943 no Rio de Janeiro, é um renomado compositor, cantor, instrumentista e arranjador brasileiro. Ele é um dos principais nomes da segunda geração da bossa nova, mas sua carreira abrange diversos gêneros musicais, incluindo pop, rock psicodélico, soul, jazz e funk.
Valle começou a estudar piano clássico aos seis anos e se formou em piano e teoria musical em 1956. Iniciou sua carreira artística em 1961, compondo suas primeiras músicas em parceria com seu irmão Paulo Sérgio Valle. Em 1963, lançou seu primeiro LP, “Samba Demais”, que incluía várias de suas composições.
Ao longo dos anos, Marcos Valle escreveu muitos temas para telenovelas e criou canções icônicas como “Samba de Verão”, que alcançou grande sucesso nos Estados Unidos. Ele também é conhecido por “Preciso Aprender a Ser Só” e “Viola Enluarada”.
Valle nunca se prendeu a um único estilo musical, explorando diferentes ritmos e influências ao longo de sua carreira. Seu trabalho continua a ser celebrado tanto no Brasil quanto internacionalmente, mantendo uma aura e som eternamente joviais.
English:
Marcos Kostenbader Valle, born on September 14, 1943, in Rio de Janeiro, is a renowned Brazilian composer, singer, instrumentalist, and arranger. He is one of the leading figures of the second generation of bossa nova, but his career spans various musical genres, including pop, psychedelic rock, soul, jazz, and funk.
Valle began studying classical piano at the age of six and graduated in piano and music theory in 1956. He started his artistic career in 1961, composing his first songs in collaboration with his brother Paulo Sérgio Valle. In 1963, he released his debut LP, "Samba Demais," which included several of his compositions.
Over the years, Marcos Valle has written many themes for telenovelas and created iconic songs such as "Samba de Verão," which achieved great success in the United States. He is also known for "Preciso Aprender a Ser Só" and "Viola Enluarada."
Valle has never confined himself to a single musical style, exploring various rhythms and influences throughout his career. His work continues to be celebrated both in Brazil and internationally, maintaining an aura and sound that remain eternally youthful.
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—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; recorded "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
Conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to Havana and the provinces of Cuba to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed up the irony in this sequence by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" Thus A Massa, anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil, which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile...
And thus a platform whereupon all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of degree of fame, location, or the censor.
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
Darius was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the U.S. Treasury and the IMF to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and to restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile.
He taught Economics at the University of Maryland and was a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America.
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).