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'''Mauro Diniz''' is a [[brazilian]] professional cavaquinist. Mauro also has a career as a songwriter and singer. |
'''Mauro Diniz''' is a [[brazilian]] professional [[cavaquinho|cavaquinist]]. Mauro also has a career as a songwriter and singer. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Some others with whom Mauro has recorded (the list would encompass almost every known sambista): [[Moacyr Luz]], [[Monarco]], [[Jorge Aragão]], [[Wilson Moreira]], [[Luiz Carlos da Vila]] and the [[Old Guard of Portela]]. |
Some others with whom Mauro has recorded (the list would encompass almost every known sambista): [[Moacyr Luz]], [[Monarco]], [[Jorge Aragão]], [[Wilson Moreira]], [[Luiz Carlos da Vila]] and the [[Old Guard of Portela]]. |
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Revision as of 00:26, 9 April 2007
Mauro Diniz is a brazilian professional cavaquinist. Mauro also has a career as a songwriter and singer.
Biography
Born in 1952 in one of the most traditional neighborhoods of carioca samba, Oswaldo Cruz, at the age of 4 stayed between his father's legs, stunning everyone with his ability on the first cavaquinho chords. At the age of 8, besides having written a parody for one of his father's sambas, for the samba-enredo of the Bloco da Alegria carnival block, was presented with a guitar by his mother Thereza, pastora of the samba school Portela. Therefore Mauro Diniz gave his first steps towards music guided by nothing less then the Old Guard of Portela. Had his dreams rocked by antologic sambas from his greatest idol, his father, the "Extraordinary Monarco from Portela".
Mauro Diniz was an enviable autodidact, during a long while. At the age of 24 bought his first cavaquinho, never letting go of the instrument until exchanging it for one which had belonged to "Master Nelson Cavaquinho", which accompanies him to this day. In 1982, started attending Physical Education College, not finishing the course due to the frequent trips he took integrating singer Beth Carvalho's band. Mauro Diniz studied music with competent people as the late Copinha, maestro Joaquim Nagle and, indicated by producer Rildo Hora, went on to study classical piano, harmony and perception.
Some time later he enrolled in CIGAM, one of the best music courses in Rio de Janeiro, where he concluded the course of Harmony, Improvisation and Arrangement. Mauro was also a student of Ian Guest, which he considers one of his greatest masters.
Achievements
Today, Mauro Diniz is among the most praised cavaquinists in Brazil, and is one of the most studious. Mauro developed, as does every cavaquinho player, his own style, which was one of the most influentials and which is already part of the history of samba. His strumming patterns are among the most unpredictable and surprising in the samba world, and a lot of the patterns which are part of the standard repertoire of cavaquinho players in the current samba scene were introduced by him. Mauro has recorded with all major samba names; his recordings with Almir Guineto are specially known for cavaquinho rhythm virtuosism; not the least, his recordings with Zeca Pagodinho and Beth Carvalho are registered as the foundation for new generations of sambistas.
Some others with whom Mauro has recorded (the list would encompass almost every known sambista): Moacyr Luz, Monarco, Jorge Aragão, Wilson Moreira, Luiz Carlos da Vila and the Old Guard of Portela.
References
Mauro Diniz at the Agenda do Samba & Choro (portuguese)
Article with interviews with Portela sambistas (portuguese)