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« Risposta #6 il: 28 Agosto 2006, 08:23:21 » |
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She has the power of a wild horse on stage”.
Says Roberto Menescal, former producer of brazilian singer and star Simone Moreno.
Now she’s staying here in Europe, ready to share what her big audience back home already has experienced.
Born in Salvador, Bahia, Simone found music very early. At 17, she sang from the hights of the trio-eléctrico groups and recorded – with the group Novos Barbaros – A terra treme”,
which ended up a hit all over Brazil.
In 1994, Simone's solo career took off with Simone Moreno, including music from Caymmi and Gilberto Gil. With the axé song Eh moça, she once more had a big hit.
Then came Morena, a parade of the roots of brazilian music and well received by the critics.
Three years later Simone moved to Rio de Janeiro.
Two albums were released during the five years she stayed there: Manda me chamar, produced by the famous samba producer Rildo Hora and praised by the great sambistas of Rio (such as Martinho da Vila and Noca da Portela), and Desde que o samba é samba – a tribute to samba and bossa nova composers such as Noel Rosa, Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque – produced by Roberto Menescal, one of the founders of the bossa nova movement and producer of Elis Regina.
The last years Simone has toured Scandinavia and Europe, with shows on the Carnival of Stockholm, in Norway (Latin Festival, Trondheim) as well as on the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland last summer, as some of the high lights. Earlier she has toured in the USA and in Japan as well as in The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Now living in Stockholm, Simone has recorded a new album here, with her exciting swedish band. In her new show, samba meets afro music, with a 70’s flavor: a lot of percussion, electric pianos and funky guitars. Gilberto Gil’s football-electro-samba Carta Pra Afonsinho lives side by side with Jorge Ben Jors funk anthem Umbabarauma. Chico Science’s wild futuristic maracatu Samba Makossa is followed by a painfully slow samba-reggae rendering of Caetano Velosos Bahia Minha Preta.
Everything comes out of Simones experience of the brazilian music heritage, but with a stress on the drums and the swing of Bahia.
And she sums up the show turning it into a humid night in Salvador, performing the hard swinging samba reggae. Simone Moreno came to Europe and refound her roots.
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