Adoniran Barbosa

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Portrait photo of the young Adoniran Barbosa, 1935
Bronze bust by the sculptor Luis Morrone in the central Bela Vista district, São Paulo

Adoniran Barbosa (actually João Rubinato ; born August 6, 1910 in Valinhos , † November 23, 1982 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian composer, actor and singer who was known for his special compositional style in the field of samba music. This style is often seen as characteristic of the "Samba Paulista (no)", a samba style of the Brazilian state of São Paulo or the city of São Paulo.

His career as a samba composer was closely linked to the befriended band Demônios Da Garoa from São Paulo , with whom he worked closely for decades. His samba compositions, which are still known today, such as Trem das Onze, Saudosa Maloca, Iracema, Samba do Arnesto and Malvina , first became known through the interpretation of the Demônios .

Barbosa's compositions were strongly influenced by “the language of the man from the street”. With grammatically often incorrect Portuguese, interspersed with Italian vocabulary, he documented and commented in a humorous way on everyday life in the big city of São Paulo, which was heavily influenced by its many Italian immigrants.

biography

Adoniran Barbosa was born in 1910 as João Rubinato in the city of Valinhos , not far from Campinas , in the state of São Paulo in humble circumstances. His parents, Emma and Ferdinando Rubinato, were Italian immigrants from Cavarzere in the Veneto region . As a child he worked with his father as a handyman for a railway company in Jundiaí and as a delivery boy. In 1924 he moved with his family to Santo André , where he worked in a factory. During his youth he got to know the famous samba artists of his time mainly through the radio.

After a number of odd jobs, including as a domestic worker, house painter, weaver and plumber, Rubinato learned the craft of metalworking in São Paulo at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios . In 1933 Rubinato finally joined the radio station Rádio Cruzeiro do Sul in São Paulo as a singer and later as a disc jockey . He got started with a vocal interpretation of the song Filosofia by Noel Rosa , with which he won one of the then popular radio young talent competitions for musicians and was awarded a contract for a weekly radio show of 15 minutes. Shortly thereafter, he married his first wife, Olga, and had a daughter with her. However, the marriage lasted less than a year. In 1935 he celebrated his first success as a composer when the march Dona Boa , which he had written with José Aimberê, won first place in the carnival competition of the city of São Paulo. This composition was also his first, which was also recorded - in the same year by Raul Torres for Columbia Records . At this time Rubinato also took on the stage name Adoniran Barbosa , as a tribute to the samba composer and singer Luís Barbosa or to a former colleague named Adoniran , with whom he had worked before his career.

In the early forties he switched to the radio station Rádio Record , where he met the radio presenter, comedian and composer Osvaldo Moles (* 1913, † 1982). Together with this he developed various characters that served as the basis for skits and humorous radio plays.

Barbosa had his first role as a film actor in the 1945 film Pif-Paf . He later played in Lima Barreto's feature film O Cangaceiro , which won the award for best adventure film at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1953 , and in early telenovelas .

In 1949 he married his second wife Matilde de Lutiis, who also worked on some of his compositions for over 30 years.

It was not until the seventies that Barbosa also pursued a solo career as a singer and released his first album in 1973.

Adoniran Barbosa died on November 23, 1982 at the age of 72. He left about 90 unpublished compositions.

In 2010, the year of Barbosa's centenary, a town partnership was established between Barbosa's hometown Valinhos and Cavarzere, his parents' hometown in Italy. On this occasion a bridge over the Adige was named after Barbosa in Cavarzere .

Well-known compositions (selection)

  • Malvina, 1951
  • Saudosa Maloca, 1951
  • Joga a Chave (1952), with Osvaldo Moles
  • Samba do Arnesto, 1953
  • Trem das Onze (1964)

Discography (selection)

  • A Música Brasileira Deste Século - Adoniran Barbosa (1972)
  • Seu Último Show (1979), live recording

Filmography (selection)

  • Pif-Paf (1945)
  • O Cangaceiro - The Outlaws (1953)
  • Mulher de Verdade (1954)
  • A Carrocinha (1955)

Web links

Commons : Adoniran Barbosa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Delegação oficial company “gemelaggio” na Itália. In: valinhos.sp.gov.br. Prefeitura de Valinhos, accessed February 26, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b c d Walter Silva: Vou te contar: histórias de musica popular brasileira . Conex, 2002, p. 38 ( preview of the book in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b Biografia de Adoniran Barbosa. In: www.sampa.art.br. SampaArt, accessed February 26, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  4. ^ Alvaro Neder: Adoniran Barbosa, Artist Biography. In: allmusic.com. AllMusic. Retrieved February 26, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Barbosa, Adoniran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rubinato, João (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian composer, actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Valinhos
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1982
Place of death São Paulo