Alegre Corrêa

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Alegre Corrêa, concert with Sandra Pires (Vienna 2007)

Alegre Corrêa (born June 9, 1960 in Passo Fundo / Rio Grande do Sul ) is a Brazilian composer, jazz guitarist, percussionist and singer.

Career

Corrêa devoted himself entirely to music at the age of 13; early influences were local musical styles from southern Brazil as well as the Música Popular Brasileira , jazz, pop and funk . He received first prize for instrumental composition at Fampop in São Paulo (1988) and at the Musicanto Festival in Rio Grande do Sul (1992). After his first trip to Europe in 1989, he moved to Vienna. There he founded the Alegre Corrêa Sextet in 1993 - with Paul Urbanek , Bertl Mayer , Denise Fontoura , Ronaldo Saggiograto and Fernando Paiva - (later the Alegre Corrêa Group with Thomas Kugi and Laurinho Bandeira ).

He also worked with musicians like Karl Ratzer , Timna Brauer and Eli Meiri , Krzysztof Dobrek / Roland Neuwirth , Marcelo Onofri and the Vienna Art Orchestra and performed at festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival , Florianópolis in Jazz (in Brazil) and WOMAD -Festival in Wiesen (Austria). Correa was a winner of the Hans Koller Prize 2003 in the category "Musician of the Year". Since 2005 he has been a permanent member of Joe Zawinul's The Zawinul Syndicate ; as a member of the Zawinul Syndicate he was involved in its production 75 , which received the 2010 Grammy in the category "Best Contemporary Jazz Album".

Discography

  • Infância , 1993
  • Negro Coração , Alegre Corrêa Sextet, 1995
  • Terra Mágica , Alegre Corrêa Sextet, 1997
  • Handmade , 1999
  • Raízes , Alegre Corrêa Group, 2000
  • Mauve , 2001
  • Brazilian Schrammeln , 2002
  • Conexão Brazil
  • Alegre Corrêa / Kornel Horvath Songs of Moment , 2012

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Koller Prize ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Entry (Grammy Awards)
personal data
SURNAME Corrêa, Alegre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Passo Fundo , Río Grande do Sul