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| After noticing that the northeastern immigrants missed the ] from their hometowns, he started to give listeners the sort of music they craved to hear: ], ], ]s and cocos. At ]’s talent show, ] played his chamego "Vira e Mexe" was acclaimed by the audience and by the dreaded host, who gave him the highest score. After discovering this niche in the market, Gonzaga became a regular at radio shows and started making records. | After noticing that the northeastern immigrants missed the ] from their hometowns, he started to give listeners the sort of music they craved to hear: ], ], ]s and cocos. At ]’s talent show, ] played his chamego "Vira e Mexe" was acclaimed by the audience and by the dreaded host, who gave him the highest score. After discovering this niche in the market, Gonzaga became a regular at radio shows and started making records. | ||
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| In the 70s and 80s, he slowly re-emerged, partly due to covers of his songs by famous artists like ], ], ], his son ] and ]. Some of his greatest hits are "Vozes da Seca" ("Voices From ]"), "Algodão" ("]"), "A Dança da Moda" ("The Dance In Fashion"), "ABC do Sertão" ("The Alphabet of Sertão"), "Derramaro o Gai" ("They Spilt the ]"), "A Letra I" ("The 'i' letter"), "Imbalança" ("Shake It"), "A Volta da Asa-Branca" ("The Return Of The ]"), "Cintura Fina" ("Slender Waist"), "O Xote das Meninas" ("The Girls' ]", written with ], and "Juazeiro", "Paraíba", "]", "Baião-de-Dois", "No Meu Pé de Serra" ("There In My Homeland"), "Assum Preto" ("]"), "Légua Tirana" ("Tyrannical league"), "Qui Nem Jiló" ("Like ]", written with ]. Other successful collaborations resulted in "Tá Bom Demais" ("It's Very Good") (with ]), "Danado de Bom" ("Very Good") (with João Silva), "Dezessete e Setecentos" ("Seventeen And Seven hundred") and "Cortando o Pano" ("Cutting Cloth") (both with ]). | In the 70s and 80s, he slowly re-emerged, partly due to covers of his songs by famous artists like ], ], ], his son ] and ]. Some of his greatest hits are "Vozes da Seca" ("Voices From ]"), "Algodão" ("]"), "A Dança da Moda" ("The Dance In Fashion"), "ABC do Sertão" ("The Alphabet of Sertão"), "Derramaro o Gai" ("They Spilt the ]"), "A Letra I" ("The 'i' letter"), "Imbalança" ("Shake It"), "A Volta da Asa-Branca" ("The Return Of The ]"), "Cintura Fina" ("Slender Waist"), "O Xote das Meninas" ("The Girls' ]", written with ], and "Juazeiro", "Paraíba", "]", "Baião-de-Dois", "No Meu Pé de Serra" ("There In My Homeland"), "Assum Preto" ("]"), "Légua Tirana" ("Tyrannical league"), "Qui Nem Jiló" ("Like ]", written with ]. Other successful collaborations resulted in "Tá Bom Demais" ("It's Very Good") (with ]), "Danado de Bom" ("Very Good") (with João Silva), "Dezessete e Setecentos" ("Seventeen And Seven hundred") and "Cortando o Pano" ("Cutting Cloth") (both with ]). | ||
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Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento (Exu, December 13, 1912 — Recife, August 2, 1989) was a very prominent Brazilian folk singer, songwriter, musician and poet. Born in the countryside of Pernambuco (Northeastern Brazil), he is considered to be responsible for the promotion of northeastern music throughout the rest of the country. He is also known as the "king of baião" and "Gonzagão".
Musical education
The son of a peasant and accordion player, he was attracted to the 8-bass accordion at a very early age, but at that time he used to accompany his father by playing the zabumba (type of bass drum) and singing at parties and religious celebrations. He left home in 1930 to join the army, and toured Brazil with an army band until 1939. Gonzaga decided to remain in Rio de Janeiro with a recently purchased accordion. He used to perform in the streets and in bars, playing boleros, waltzes and tangos.
After noticing that the northeastern immigrants missed the music from their hometowns, he started to give listeners the sort of music they craved to hear: xaxados, baiões, chamegos and cocos. At Ary Barroso’s talent show, Luiz Gonzaga played his chamego "Vira e Mexe" was acclaimed by the audience and by the dreaded host, who gave him the highest score. After discovering this niche in the market, Gonzaga became a regular at radio shows and started making records.
Personal life
Gonzaga's son, Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento Júnior, known as Gonzaguinha, born 1945, was also a noted Brazilian singer and composer.
Recording career
In 1943, he dressed up in typical northeastern costumes for the first time to perform live, and got hyped. Later on, as well as playing popular tunes on the accordion, he began to sing his own material, and his skills as a songwriter were revealed. His greatest hit ever, "Asa-Branca" (written with Humberto Teixeira), was recorded in 1947 and covered countless times by many different artists. He worked on the radio until 1954, enjoying huge popularity. He is widely recognized for singlehandedly taking the baião style and the accordion to a wide audience, and for a time RCA (now BMG), his recording label, was almost exclusively dedicated to printing his singles and albums. During the 60's, as the public taste shifted to bossa nova and iê-iê-iê, he found himself increasingly stranded from big city stages, so he toured the countryside, where his popularity never abated.
In the 70s and 80s, he slowly re-emerged, partly due to covers of his songs by famous artists like Geraldo Vandré, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, his son Gonzaguinha and Milton Nascimento. Some of his greatest hits are "Vozes da Seca" ("Voices From Drought"), "Algodão" ("Cotton"), "A Dança da Moda" ("The Dance In Fashion"), "ABC do Sertão" ("The Alphabet of Sertão"), "Derramaro o Gai" ("They Spilt the Gas"), "A Letra I" ("The 'i' letter"), "Imbalança" ("Shake It"), "A Volta da Asa-Branca" ("The Return Of The Picazuro Pidgeon"), "Cintura Fina" ("Slender Waist"), "O Xote das Meninas" ("The Girls' Schottische", written with Zé Dantas, and "Juazeiro", "Paraíba", "Mangaratiba", "Baião-de-Dois", "No Meu Pé de Serra" ("There In My Homeland"), "Assum Preto" ("Blue-back Grassquit"), "Légua Tirana" ("Tyrannical league"), "Qui Nem Jiló" ("Like gilo", written with Humberto Teixeira. Other successful collaborations resulted in "Tá Bom Demais" ("It's Very Good") (with Onildo de Almeida), "Danado de Bom" ("Very Good") (with João Silva), "Dezessete e Setecentos" ("Seventeen And Seven hundred") and "Cortando o Pano" ("Cutting Cloth") (both with Miguel Lima).
External links
- Rei do Baião (Portuguese)