Reinaldinho
This Brazilian cultural matrix positions Reinaldinho globally...
Curation
CURATION
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by Matrix
The Integrated Global Creative Economy
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Name:
Reinaldinho
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City/Place:
Salvador, Bahia
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Country:
Brazil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Tudo teve início há 25 anos no bairro do Politeama, em Salvador, no começo dos anos 90, quando um grupo de amigos apaixonados pelo samba se uniu para formar o Terra Samba. Reinaldo Nascimento, já conhecido nas rodas musicais da época, foi convidado a integrar o grupo em 1992, trazendo sua voz marcante e assumindo a liderança, o que deu à banda uma identidade única e energética.
Em 1995, o Brasil viu o lançamento do primeiro álbum do grupo, "Terra Samba Faz Bem", que se tornou um dos maiores sucessos de vendas da música brasileira. Esse disco foi apenas o começo, dando origem a uma série de outros álbuns de sucesso, como "Deus é Brasileiro", "Liberar Geral" e "Ao Vivo e A Cores", que vendeu mais de 2 milhões de cópias. A partir daí, o grupo se apresentou em grandes shows, sempre com ingressos esgotados, e ganhou destaque na mídia televisiva e radiofônica.
O Terra Samba também participou de renomados festivais, como o Festival de Verão de Salvador e o Axé Brasil em Belo Horizonte, onde o público dançava ao som de hits como "Liberar Geral", "Tô Fraco", "Carrinho de Mão", "Banho de Chuveiro", "Boneco Doido" e muitos outros, sempre sob a liderança vocal de Reinaldo Nascimento. Além disso, o grupo fez turnês pela Europa e pelas Américas, se apresentando em países como Portugal, Itália, Alemanha, Bélgica, França, Argentina, Uruguai, Paraguai e Estados Unidos.
Reconhecimento veio na forma de prêmios, como o Troféu Dodô e Osmar na categoria "Cantor Revelação" e o Prêmio Multishow de Música Brasileira na categoria "Melhor Show", entre outros.
Após mais de duas décadas junto ao grupo, Reinaldo decidiu seguir carreira solo, inspirado por sua rica trajetória musical e influências. Ele embarcou em um novo projeto com seu próprio nome: Reinaldinho. Seu mais recente trabalho, "Reinaldinho Canta Bahia", presta homenagem às grandes canções e compositores que marcaram os carnavais da Bahia, oferecendo uma retrospectiva do melhor da música baiana e transportando os ouvintes para a atmosfera festiva do carnaval. A promessa é trazer mais música e alegria para os fãs da maravilhosa música brasileira, com a voz marcante, vibrante e carismática de Reinaldinho.
English:
Everything began 25 years ago in the Politeama neighborhood of Salvador, in the early 90s, when a group of friends passionate about samba came together to form Terra Samba. Reinaldo Nascimento, already known in the musical circles of the time, was invited to join the group in 1992, bringing his distinctive voice and assuming leadership, which gave the band a unique and energetic identity.
In 1995, Brazil witnessed the release of the group's first album, "Terra Samba Faz Bem," which became one of the biggest selling successes in Brazilian music. This album was just the beginning, leading to a series of other successful albums, such as "Deus é Brasileiro," "Liberar Geral," and "Ao Vivo e A Cores," which sold over 2 million copies. From then on, the group performed in major concerts, always with sold-out tickets, and gained prominence in television and radio media.
Terra Samba also participated in renowned festivals, such as the Salvador Summer Festival and Axé Brasil in Belo Horizonte, where the audience danced to hits like "Liberar Geral," "Tô Fraco," "Carrinho de Mão," "Banho de Chuveiro," "Boneco Doido," and many others, always under the vocal leadership of Reinaldo Nascimento. Additionally, the group toured Europe and the Americas, performing in countries such as Portugal, Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and the United States.
Recognition came in the form of awards, such as the Dodô e Osmar Trophy for "Revelation Singer" and the Multishow Brazilian Music Award for "Best Show," among others.
After more than two decades with the group, Reinaldo decided to pursue a solo career, inspired by his rich musical journey and influences. He embarked on a new project under his own name: Reinaldinho. His latest work, "Reinaldinho Canta Bahia," pays homage to the great songs and composers that marked Bahia's carnivals, offering a retrospective of the best of Bahian music and transporting listeners to the festive atmosphere of carnival. The promise is to bring more music and joy to fans of wonderful Brazilian music, with Reinaldinho's distinctive, vibrant, and charismatic voice.
Contact Information
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Whatsapp:
+55 31 99282-3578
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Management/Booking:
Contato:
+55 11 2389-1169
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Clips (more may be added)
There are certain countries, the names of which fire the popular imagination. Brazil is one of them; an amalgam of primitive and sophisticated, jungle and elegance, luscious jazz harmonics — there’s no other place like it in the world. And while Rio de Janeiro, or its fame anyway, tends toward the sophisticated end of the spectrum, Bahia bends toward the atavistic…
It’s like a trick of the mind’s light (I suppose), but standing on beach or escarpment in Salvador and looking out across the Baía de Todos os Santos to the great Recôncavo, and mindful of what happened there (and here; the Bahian Recôncavo was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place throughout the entirety of mankind’s existence on this planet, and in the past it extended into what is now urban Salvador), one must be led to the inevitable conclusion that one is in a place unique to history, and to the present:
Brazil absorbed over ten times the number of enslaved Africans taken to the United States of America, and is a repository of African deities (and their music) now largely forgotten in their lands of origin.
Brazil was a refuge (of sorts) for Sephardim fleeing an Inquisition which followed them across the Atlantic (that unofficial symbol of Brazil’s national music — the pandeiro — was almost certainly brought to Brazil by these people).
Across the parched savannas of the interior of Brazil’s culturally fecund nordeste/northeast (where wizard Hermeto Pascoal was born in Lagoa da Canoa — Lagoon of the Canoe — and raised in Olho d’Águia — Eye of the Eagle), much of Brazil’s aboriginal population was absorbed into a caboclo/quilombola culture punctuated by the Star of David.
Three cultures — from three continents — running for their lives, their confluence forming an unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof.
That's where this Matrix begins:
Wolfram MathWorld
The idea is simple, powerful, and egalitarian: To propagate for them, the Matrix must propagate for all. Most in the world are within six degrees of us. The concept of a "small world" network (see Wolfram above) applies here, placing artists from the Recôncavo and the sertão, from Salvador... from Brooklyn, Berlin and Mombassa... musicians, writers, filmmakers... clicks (recommendations) away from their peers all over the planet.
This Integrated Global Creative Economy (we invented the concept) uncoils from Brazil's sprawling Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian cultural matrix... expanding like the canopy of a rainforest tree rooted in Bahia, branches spreading to embrace the entire world...
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Great culture is great power.
And in a small world great things are possible.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"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...
I opened the shop in Salvador, Bahia in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for magnificent Brazilian musicians.
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 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, 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've lived here in Brazil for 32 years now) 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.
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 founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
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