Word: stingingly
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...York and living in Manhattan washed the beach right out of me. I'm currently dressed in black from head to toe, from my black short-sleeve shirt and summer-weight black pants to my black sneakers. I'm as easily identifiable as an New Yorker in Rio as Sting is as an Englishman in New York...
...point - the Beatles have always been big in Brazil, and the Tropicalia movement was in part inspired by the Fab Four's creativity. The music that immediately followed was not so inspiring. Gil and Nascimento left the stage and the Orquestra played an instrumental medley of songs that included Sting's "Every Breath You Take" and R.E.M.'s "Losing my Religion." OK, that made sense because Sting and R.E.M. were playing the festival. The Orquestra also played "Eleanor Rigby." That also made sense because of the aforementioned local love affair with all things related to the boys from Liverpool...
...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...
...Later that weekend, I had a chat with Sting as he 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...
...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," a book about the history of Brazilian music...