Nenê (musician)

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Nenê (born February 5, 1947 in Porto Alegre , Brazil as Realcino Lima Filho ) is a Brazilian musician ( percussion , arrangement , composition ) and music pedagogue who has emerged primarily in the field of jazz and the Música Popular Brasileira .

Live and act

Nenê began playing the accordion when she was twelve . As an autodidact , he turned to drums at the age of 14 and soon started working as a professional musician. At the age of 19 Hermeto Pascoal brought him to the Quarteto Novo ; soon afterwards he also worked with Milton Nascimento , César Camargo Mariano , Elis Regina , Edu Lobo and Egberto Gismonti . He toured internationally with Pascoal at the end of the 1970s, and then performed with Gismonti in Europe and participated in the album Sanfona . In 1982 he was able to present his first album as a leader with Bugre . Then he moved to Europe, where he performed with Gismonti and Claude Nougaro and founded his own Nenê band with Simon Spang-Hanssen , with whom he presented the album Ponto dos Músicos in 1984 and played at numerous European festivals. Appearances with Kenny Wheeler and Bob Moses and recordings with Tiziana Simona and Mimi Lorenzini followed. In 1986 he returned to Brazil, where he has toured and performed with the theater group Pau Brasil since then . In 1987 his third album Minuano made it into the Brazilian top ten. In the next few years he also appeared with Takashi Kako , Steve Lacy , Paulo Moura and Vinz Vonlanthen , as well as in a quartet with Gismonti, Charlie Haden and Michel Portal and in a trio with Hermeto Pascoal and Richard Galliano . In addition, he leads his own trio, with whom he has published numerous publications and presented his music at many Brazilian festivals.

He also wrote the textbook Brazilian Rhythms by Nene (Zurfluh Editions, Paris 1988), the contents of which he presented in workshops in Europe.

Discographic notes

  • Minuano (1985)
  • Suíte Curral Del Rey (1997; nominated for a Grammy )
  • Porto dos Casais (1998)
  • Sudeste (2007)
  • Inverno (2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry (Musicos do Brasil)
personal data
SURNAME Nenê
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Filho, Realcino Lima (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian musician (percussion, arrangement, composition) and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto Alegre , Brazil