Marisa Monte
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 Marisa Monte live in Belo Horizonte, 2007. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Marisa de Azevedo Monte |
| Born | July 1, 1967 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Genres | Pop, Baroque Pop, Samba, Música Popular Brasileira |
| Instruments | Singing, Guitar, Cavaquinho, Ukulele |
| Associated acts | Tribalistas |
Marisa de Azevedo Monte (born July 1, 1967 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.[1]
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[edit] Biography
While classically trained in opera singing, she grew up surrounded by the sounds of the Portela samba school, and combines diverse influences into her music. After failing to break through into 1980s Brazilian Pop rock she went into semi-exile in Italy where she met the famous producer Nelson Motta (soon her boyfriend). Thereafter she became a hybrid of MPB diva and Pop rock performer. While most of her music is in the style of modern MPB, she has also recorded traditional samba and folk tunes, as well and songs performed by Marvin Gaye, Lou Reed and George Harrison. Much of her work has been in collaboration with musicians/songwriters Carlinhos Brown, Arnaldo Antunes, and Nando Reis, and producer Arto Lindsay. She has also worked with foreign artists such as Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Julieta Venegas. She has performed live in the United States in such venues as The House of Blues. In 1996, she contributed a version of "Waters of March", in a duet with David Byrne, to the AIDS benefit compilation album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization. She also collaborated with Bonga and Carlinhos Brown on the track "Mulemba Xangola" for the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the same organization. Again, in 2011, she contributed a collaboration with Devendra Banhart and Rodrigo Amarante "Nú Com A Minha Música" ("Naked with My Music") for the Red Hot Organization's most recent charitable album "Red Hot+Rio 2." The album is a follow-up to the 1996 "Red Hot+Rio." Proceeds from the sales will be donated to raise awareness and money to fight AIDS/HIV and related health and social issues.
Marisa Monte is unique as a Brazilian artist in that she owns the rights to all of her songs; it was her chief demand for renewing her contract with EMI Music.[2]
[edit] Discography & Sales
- MM (1989) - 900,000
- Mais (1991) - 950,000
- Verde, anil, amarelo, cor de rosa e carvão (Rose & Charcoal) (1994) - 1,200,000
- Barulhinho Bom (A Great Noise) (1996) - 1,000,000
- Memórias, Crônicas, e Declaracões de Amor (Memories, Chronicles and Declarations of Love) (2000) - 1,500,000
- Tribalistas (as the Tribalistas, with Carlinhos Brown and Arnaldo Antunes) (2003) - 2,100,000
- Universo ao Meu Redor (2006) - 450,000
- Infinito Particular (2006) - 350,000
- O Que Você Quer Saber de Verdade (2011)
[edit] References
- ^ Felitti, Chico (30 October 2011). "Silencinho Bom" (in Portuguese). Serafina/Folha de S.Paulo: p. 56. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/saopaulo/998624-marisa-monte-lanca-8-cd-e-quebra-o-sossego-dos-ultimos-anos.shtml. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ^ Musitec (in Portuguese)
