Bio:
Mikael Mutti has an active international career as a musician and producer, playing and recording with significant artists around the world.
These artist include Sergio Mendes, Scorpions, Jamie Fox, Carlos Santana, Will.I.Am, and John Legend among others. Mika was also invited to co-produce the soundtrack for the closing ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, and to perform as a highlighted talented artist as a DJ. In 2011 Mikael wrote, recorded, and co-produced songs for the animated film “Rio”.
Of these, a song co-written with Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown was Oscar nominated in 2012 for Best Original Song. Mika Mutti was co-producer, composer, musician and arranger of the Grammy nominated Sergio Mendes’ album “Magic” in 2015.
Living in Los Angeles for the past year, Mika Mutti is now composing and co-producing for the forthcoming Sergio Mendes’ album.
Português:
Mikael Mutti tem uma carreira internacional ativa como músico e produtor, tocando e gravando com artistas significativos ao redor do mundo.
Esses artistas incluem Sergio Mendes, Scorpions, Jamie Foxx, Carlos Santana, Will.I.Am e John Legend, entre outros. Mika também foi convidado para co-produzir a trilha sonora da cerimônia de encerramento das Olimpíadas de 2016 no Rio e se apresentar como um talentoso DJ em destaque. Em 2011, Mikael escreveu, gravou e co-produziu músicas para o filme animado "Rio".
Dentre elas, uma música co-escrita com Sergio Mendes e Carlinhos Brown foi indicada ao Oscar em 2012 na categoria de Melhor Canção Original. Mika Mutti foi co-produtor, compositor, músico e arranjador do álbum "Magic" de Sergio Mendes, indicado ao Grammy, em 2015.
Morando em Los Angeles há um ano, Mika Mutti está agora compondo e co-produzindo para o próximo álbum de Sergio Mendes.
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
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.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).