Word: brazilianizing
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...Anyway, we get to talking. "Brazil is an intense place," says Beck. "The music can be gentle but there's a lot of life happening on the street." He goes on to talk about his favorite Brazilian performers. "There are tons of them - everyone from Jobim to Caetano. Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Gal Costa...
...Sting was far better, unleashing a string of his hits - From "Set them Free" to his latest single "After the Rain." He was recently nominated for a Grammy for his rendition of Brazilian songwriter Ivan Lins' "She Walks This Earth." You can hear the influence of Rio in some of Sting's music - the cool samba swing, the sometimes unusual time signatures, the tropical warmth. Here, on stage at Rock in Rio, it was all coming...
...lounged on a couch in the lobby of the Copacabana Palace. "I'm having a good time," he said. He had gotten some sun, and he had also gotten in some chess while hanging out by the pool. Chess and tanning simultaneously. That's why he's Sting. "Brazilian music has informed my work from the very beginning of my career," he said. "Particularly Jobim and Ivan Lins." Sting says he's also a fan of the city of Rio. "It's a very compelling city," he said. "It's beautiful - and a bit dangerous. It's a perfect combination...
...kind of "cool jazz" pioneered by Miles Davis and came up with bossa nova. Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil took the experimentation of the Beatles and the frustration of laboring under a military dictatorship and helped create Tropicalia. There is also MPB, ax?, pagode and a host of other Brazilian musical styles. Artists from around the world, from Stan Getz to Sting to Beck have taken the music that Brazil borrowed and borrowed it right back. "Pop music is best product we make in Brazil," says Nelson Mota, a leading Brazilian music critic and the author of "Noites Tropicais...
...Today there's a new generation of Brazilian musicians that is once again looking outside of the country's borders for inspiration, but grounding their work in the musical wealth of their native land. Daniela Mercury has the bouncy energy of American pop acts, but her work is anchored in the culture of Bahia and in serious artistic intent. Max de Castro, Patricia Coelho, the band Barao Vermelho, the group Nacao Zumbi and other young acts at the festival are adding hip-hop, trip-hop, and electronica to samba, bossa nova and Tropicalia. They are drawing from abroad but creating...