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Born on July 8th 1970, Seu Jorge emerged from the tough favelas of the state of Rio in the Nineties. The singer founded the samba pop group Farofa Carioca before going solo in 1999 with the album “Samba Esporte Fino”. It won the Album of the Year in Brazil but that success was nothing compared to the kind he enjoyed for his acting role in “Cidade de Deus” (“City of Gods”). Thanks to this feature film, the lean guitarist has seen his meteoric rise to fame go well beyond his frontiers. In 2005 Jorge enjoyed extensive world tours to promote his second solo album “Cru”. That same year, he combined with vocalist Ana Carolina for an ambitious 2006 release “Ao Vivo”. Jorge is scheduled to bring out “Brasil America” in 2007.
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Ao Vivo
Recorded back in August 2005, here are 35 songs and almost 3 hours of entertainment many will be glad to have found in their Christmas stocking. The package is split into a 15-track CD, plus a DVD that allies 20 songs with DVD extras revealing two artists full of humour, humility and humanity. “Ao Vivo/Live” was recorded in São Paulo in front of an audience familiar with the samba pop Jorge has renewed in the past decade. Their communion is an exchange that bristles with energy. It revisits many of the hits these two popular musicians have released such as “Carolina” and “Tive Razao” by Jorge, “Garganta” and “Brasil Corrupcao” by Carolina.
The latter is currently Brazil’s most popular woman solo artist alongside Ivete Sangalo. Her husky and deep voice sits comfortably alongside Jobim’s rough and powerful singing, and they share six duos that reflect this fine complementarity. Yet, it is the 32-year-old who steals the show with her moving acoustic solos. On stage she glides effortlessly from the “Brasil corrupcão” she co-wrote with Tom Zé (a man, says Carolina, who gave her the “strength and warmth” to further a career she began in 1999) to the sensitive “Beatriz” and a brilliant version of “Garganta”.
The CD/DVD travels from typical bossa nova to soft samba, Brazilian rock and MPB, bright acoustic solos to skat and rap. Two belting voices, a pair of confident guitars, some pandeiros and a bass are enough to fill the vast stage. The affection and mutual respect the two singers show on stage (where Jorge even asks Carolina’s for her hand which she accepts to give) is not surfeit. The DVD extras show how the two work together in harmony and good humour. Their complicity is largely based on spontaneous vocal exchanges that reach a rousing finale with “O Beat de Beata”. While we were well aware of the talents of Seu Jorge it is the sparkling vitality of Ana Carolina that shines through this spare and tender CD/DVD.
January 2007
Daniel Brown
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Mondomix Experience
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Mondomix Wagram
2008 |
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America o Brasil
(Album)
Naïve
2008 |
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Ao Vivo
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Sony BMG Naïve
2006 |
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Cru
(Album)
Fla Flu prod.
2004 |
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Carolina
(Album)
Mr Bongo
2001 |
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