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Name:
Xande de Pilares
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City/Place:
Rio de Janeiro
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Country:
Brazil
Life
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Bio:
Alexandre Silva de Assis, conhecido artisticamente como Xande de Pilares, nasceu no Rio de Janeiro em 25 de dezembro de 1969. Ele é reconhecido como um talentoso cantor, compositor e ator brasileiro. Sua notoriedade foi solidificada durante sua participação no Grupo Revelação, do qual fez parte de 1991 até 2014.
Antes de fixar residência em Pilares, que se tornou parte integrante de seu nome artístico, Xande viveu em diversos bairros. Sua infância transcorreu na comunidade da Chacrinha, situada no complexo do Morro do Turano, no bairro da Tijuca. Em 1981, ainda na pré-adolescência, mudou-se para a favela Águia de Ouro, localizada em Pilares.
Em 20 de janeiro de 1990, deu início à sua trajetória musical ao estrear no Pagode da Tia Gessy, localizado no bairro Cachambi. A fundação do Grupo Revelação ocorreu em 1994, quando Xande e cinco colegas músicos se uniram. O grupo alcançou destaque no cenário do pagode ao participar semanalmente do evento realizado na quadra da Escola de Samba Acadêmicos da Abolição.
Em 28 de outubro de 2014, Xande lançou seu primeiro álbum solo pela Universal Music, intitulado "Perseverança", composto por 14 faixas, incluindo músicas de sua autoria e de renomados compositores como Serginho Meriti e Arlindo Cruz. Em 2017, apresentou seu segundo disco, denominado "Esse Menino Sou Eu". Em 2023, foi lançado o álbum "Xande Canta Caetano", uma coleção de releituras de canções de Caetano Veloso.
English:
Alexandre Silva de Assis, better known as Xande de Pilares, was born in Rio de Janeiro on December 25, 1969. He is a renowned Brazilian singer, songwriter, and actor. He gained fame for his participation in the group Revelação, where he was a member from 1991 until 2014.
Before settling in Pilares, a neighborhood that became part of his artistic name, Xande lived in various neighborhoods. Part of his childhood was spent in the Chacrinha community, located in the Morro do Turano complex in the Tijuca neighborhood. In 1981, almost in adolescence, he moved to the Águia de Ouro favela in Pilares.
On January 20, 1990, he debuted at Pagode da Tia Gessy, located in the Cachambi neighborhood, marking the beginning of his musical career. He founded the group Revelação with five fellow musicians in 1994. The group gained prominence in the weekly pagode events held at the quadra of the Samba School Acadêmicos da Abolição.
On October 28, 2014, Xande released his first solo album through Universal Music, titled "Perseverança." The album features 14 tracks, including songs composed by the artist himself and names like Serginho Meriti and Arlindo Cruz. In 2017, Xande released his second album, titled "Esse Menino Sou Eu." In 2023, the album "Xande Canta Caetano" was launched, featuring reinterpretations of songs by Caetano Veloso.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
https://goldproducoes.com.br/xande-de-pilares
Clips (more may be added)
When creators curate people (and entities) for what they do and where they do it, a matrix is generated.
Following human society, by the mathematical magic of the small-world phenomenon, all inside such a matrix tend to within degrees of all others inside.
And by logical extension, to within degrees of all humanity.
It is almost completely unknown that the Recôncavo of Bahia 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 widely unknown that Brazil — a repository of African deities now largely forgotten in their lands of origin — absorbed over ten times the number of Africans taken to the United States of America.
And unknown that 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.
Great culture is great power. This matrix begins here and opens pathways to cultures and creators everywhere.
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"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
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"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
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Ground Zero for the project was the culture born in Brazil's quilombos (in Angola a kilombo is a village; in Brazil it is a village either founded by Africans or Afro-Brazilians who had escaped slavery, or — as in the case of São Francisco do Paraguaçu below — occupied by such after abandonment by the ruling class):

...theme for a Brazilian Matrix, from an Afro-Brazilian Mass by
Milton Nascimento
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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