Milton Nascimento

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Nascimento in April 2008

Milton Nascimento (born October 26, 1942 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) is a Brazilian musician who is considered one of the formative personalities of the Música Popular Brasileira .

Life

Nascimento grew up in Laranjeiras and Tijuca . When he was just a few months old, he was adopted by a couple whom his mother worked for. The foster parents were Josino Brito Campos, a bank clerk, math teacher and electrical engineer, and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher. When he was eighteen months old, his birth mother died and he and his foster parents moved to Três Pontas in Minas Gerais .

At the beginning of his career, Milton Nascimento played in the samba groups Evolussamba and Sambacana . In 1963 he went to Belo Horizonte . His friendship with the brothers Lô and Márcio Borges brought him into contact with the Clube da Esquina movement to which the writer Fernando Brant belonged, with whom Nascimento wrote over 200 songs over the following decades. The first joint composition "Travessia" already received a second prize in a song competition. The song found its way onto Nascimento's self-titled debut album in 1967 (which was re-released as Travessia in 1978 ).

The pianist and arranger Eumir Deodato recommended Nascimento to the jazz producer Creed Taylor , who already released Antônio Carlos Jobim and the Tamba 4 on his label CTI . His second album Courage , released on CTI in 1969 (and distributed worldwide via A&M Records ), introduced him to a US and international audience for the first time. Herbie Hancock played a prominent part in the recordings in Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey with an orchestra arranged and conducted by Deodato .

His international breakthrough came through his performances with jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter . In 1974 the two musicians recorded the album Native Dancer , which was released under Shorter's name on his label Columbia, but over half of the compositions came from Nascimento. Here, too, Herbie Hancock sat at the piano. Both him and Shorter, Nascimento later repeatedly invited guest appearances on his albums, for example in 1976 for Milton , in 1987 for Yauaretê and Angelus in 1993. The pianist met in 1988 on Milton's album from 1988, where in addition to voice, guitar and piano, there is little more than the percussion by Naná Vasconcelos .

In the course of his career, Nascimento has also performed with Jorge Ben , Caetano Veloso , Chico Buarque , Gilberto Gil and international stars such as Paul Simon , James Taylor , Peter Gabriel , Quincy Jones and Pat Metheny . Through his friendship with the guitarist Warren Cuccurullo , he started working with Duran Duran in 1993 . Milton Nascimento was nominated for a Grammy in 1991, 1995 and 1998 . In 1998 he won it in the Best World Music Album category .

His music is based on the bossa nova . Nascimento is famous for his falsetto singing and the wide range of his voice. In Brazil it stands for such popular songs as "Canção da América" ​​and "Coração de Estudante". The text of "Coração de Estudante" recalls the funeral of the student Edson Luís, who was killed in 1968 by a police officer. The song became the anthem of the movement for democratic elections in Brazil in 1984 and it was played at the funeral of Tancredo Neves , the first freely elected president of Brazil after the military dictatorship.

Nascimento also played a small role as the doorman of an opera house in Fitzcarraldo (1982) by Werner Herzog .

Recordings

  • Milton Nascimento (Ritmos, 1967; republished as Travessia , Som Livre, 1978)
  • Courage ( CTI / A&M , 1968)
  • Milton Nascimento ( Odeon , 1969)
  • Milton (Odeon, 1969)
  • Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges: Clube do Esquina (Odeon, 1972)
  • Milton Nascimento & Som Imaginário: Milagre dos Peixes (Odeon, 1973), concert recording
  • Minas ( EMI , 1975)
  • Geraes (EMI, 1976)
  • Milton (A&M, 1976)
  • Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges: Clube do Esquina 2 (EMI, 1978)
  • Journey to Dawn (A&M, 1979)
  • Sentinela (Ariola, 1980)
  • Caçador de Mim (Ariola, 1981)
  • Anima (Ariola, 1982)
  • Milton Nascimento, Pedro Casaldáliga, Pedro Tierra: Missa dos Quilombos (Ariola, 1982)
  • Ao Vivo (Ariola / Barclay , 1983), concert recording
  • Encontros e Despedidas (Barclay, 1985)
  • Mercedes Sosa / León Gieco / Milton Nascimento: Corazón Americano ( Philips , 1985)
  • A Barca dos Amantes (Barclay / Verve , 1986), concert recording, with Wayne Shorter
  • Yauaretê ( CBS , 1987), with Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon and Wayne Shorter
  • Sarah Vaughan with Milton Nascimento: Brazilian Romance (CBS, 1987), produced by Sérgio Mendes
  • Milton's (CBS, 1988), with Herbie Hancock
  • Txai (CBS, 1990)
  • O Planeta Blue na Estrada do Sol (CBS, 1992)
  • Angelus (Columbia, 1994)
  • Amigo ( Warner , 1995)
  • Nascimento (Warner, 1997)
  • Tambores de Minas - Ao Vivo ( WEA , 1997), concert recording
  • Crooner (WEA, 1999)
  • Milton Nascimento & Gilberto Gil : Gil & Milton (WEA, 2000)
  • Daniel Barenboim : Brazilian Rhapsody ( Teldec , 2000), with Milton Nascimento on two pieces
  • Pietá (Warner, 2002)
  • Maria Maria / Ultimo Trem (FarOut, EMI, 2004), ballet music from 1976 and 1980
  • Belmondo & Milton Nascimento (B.Flat, 2008), with Belmondo
  • Milton Nascimento & Jobim Trio: Novas Bossas (EMI, 2008)
  • ... E a Gente Sonhando (EMI, 2010)
  • Herbie Hancock & Milton Nascimento: Under Tokyo Skies (JazzWorld, 2010), concert recording
  • Nada Será Como Antes: O Musical ( Universal , 2011)
  • Uma Travessia: 50 Anos de Carreira (Ao Vivo) ( Universal , 2013), concert recording
  • Milton Nascimento & Dudu Lima Trio: Tamarear (Som Livre, 2015)

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  1. ↑ Milton's at Allmusic (English). Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ Milton's at Discogs

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personal data
SURNAME Nascimento, Milton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil