Fabio Freire
Fabio Freire (born July 15, 1956 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian percussionist , singer and composer .
Live and act
Freire, who grew up as the son of an Afro-Brazilian priestess, learned to play drums as a child. He received his training in harmony and improvisation at the Brooklin Paulista Conservatory with Nelson Aires and Roberto Sion. He worked with musicians such as Raul de Souza , João Bosco and Tom Zé . The Farafina group invited him to Japan for the Farafina World Percussion Meeting .
He later moved to Switzerland, where he worked with Heiri Känzig and Matthieu Michel . In the duo project Limmazonas produced by Max Lässer , he worked with Christoph Stiefel . He brought Stefan Hulliger (violin), Susanna Andres (violin), Martin Hess (double bass) and Ueli Angstmann (saxophone) into his Ignis Quartet in order to find intuitive approaches to the fusion of Afro-Brazilian tradition and European forms. He can also be heard on albums by Jean-Paul Bourelly and Fischhohl and has composed for Banda do Solzinho and Grupo Passarinho . He can also be seen in Cesar Paes ' documentary Saudade do futuro (2000).
Discographic notes
- Carioca & Fabio Freire Dança de Caboclo (1995)
- Thomas Rohrer / Celio Barros / Fabio Freire (PMC Label 1999)
- Christoph Stiefel & Fabio Freire Limmazonas (RecRec, 2001)
- Fabio Freire & Ignis Quartet First Intution (2004)
- Fabio Freire & Ignis Quartet Verumo (2015)
Web links
- Web presence
- Short biography
- Fabio Freire at Discogs (English)
- Fabio Freire at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Grenzklänge with a wooden block and bells Bonner General-Anzeiger , January 30, 2001
- ^ Saudade do futuro / longing for the future
- ↑ Smoldering fire with violin , Bieler Tagblatt , October 12, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freire, Fabio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian percussionist, singer and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | São Paulo |