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Brazilians Sergio Mendes, João Gilberto
& Gilberto Gil in N.Y. over 4 day period
MARGARITA DIAZ
Wednesday, June 18th 2008, 4:00 AM
In the span of four days, New
Yorkers will get a chance to listen to
Sergio Mendes, João Gilberto and
Gilberto Gil
Of the three stars, Mendes has
enjoyed the most consistent success
in the US, most recently in 2006
when the CD 'Timeless, featuring a
hip hop-inflected remake of his hit
"Mas Que Nada" with the Black Eyed
Peas, charted at No. 44 on
Billboard's Hot 100.
"Will.i.am is the perfect combination
for me,"Mendes says on the phone
from Paris, part of the European leg
of his tour. "He shares the same
curiosity I have, so we both like the
adventure of doing something
different, something fresh."
The sounds of Mendes will give way
on Sunday to Gilberto, who will
celebrate 50 years of bossa nova,
also at Carnegie Hall
By the time Mendes made his name
in the late 1960s with his pop-infused
bossa nova, Gilberto, 76, had
already established himself as the
epitome of the bossa singer smooth,
mellow, gently plucking the guitar
and whispering sweet nothings into
the mike
The influence of Gilberto's style
cannot be overstated: he became the
ideal for a generation of guitar
wielding singers from Brazil
Joao was the voice of bossa nova,
Mendes says 'The composer was
Antonio Carlos Jobim, who wrote the
most beautiful music from Brazil, and
João was the singer
And that tradition has been sustained
and subverted by figures such as Gil
who may hold the title of minister of
Culture in the government of
President Ignacio Lula Da Silva, but
who continues to make music and
perform around the world (his latest
Banda Larga Cordel," hit stores
June 17)
Saturday
Sergio Mendes will be at Camegie Hall
Gil 65, who will be at the Nokia
betto Gays Say also at Camera
Theater on Tuesday started playing
the guitar after hearing Gilberto on the radio. His work as a leader of the Tropicalia
music movement in the late 1960s and as one of the most outspoken cultural
figures in Brazil has ensured his place in world music history
Gil who is a great friend of mine, wrote the lyrics for one of the songs in 'Encanto
Lugar Comun' Mendes says "He is a tremendous musician singer songwnter
and performer
New Yorkers will have the good fortune of seeing all three of these legends in the
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