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Baden Powell de Aquino (August 6, 1937 - September 26, 2000) widely known simply as Baden Powell, was a Brazilian bossa nova guitarist.
Biography
Baden Powell de Aquino was born in Varre-e-Sai in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His father, a scouting enthusiast, named him after Robert Baden-Powell. When he was three, his family relocated to a suburb in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The new surroundings proved profoundly influencial. His house was a stop for popular musicians during his formative years. He soon started guitar lessons with Jayme Florence, a famous Choro guitarist in the 1940s. He proved a young virtuoso, having won many talent competitions before he was a teenager. At age fifteen, he was already playing professionally, accompanying singers and bands in various styles. As a youngster, he was fascinated by Swing and Jazz, but his main influences were firmly rooted in the Brazilian guitar canon.
He first achieved notoriety in 1959 by convincing Billy Blanco, who was an established singer and songwriter to put lyrics to one of his compositions. The result was called "Samba Triste" and very successful. It has been covered by many artists, including Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd seminal LP Jazz Samba.
In 1962, he met the poet-diplomat Vinicius de Moraes and began a collaboration that yielded some true classics of 1960's Brazilian music. Although Bossa Nova was the prevailing sound of the times, the partnership Baden-Vinicius wanted to transcend the form by syncretizing Afro-Brazilian forms such as Candomblé, Umbanda and Capoeira with Rio de Janeiro's Samba forms. The most enduring result is a series released as an LP in 1966 under the name "Os Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinicius". During those years, he studied advanced harmony with Moacir Santos, released recordings in the Brazilian labels Elenco and Forma, as well as in the French label Barclay. In addition, he was the house guitarist for Elenco, and Elis Regina's TV show "O Fino da Bossa".
In 1968, he partnered with poet Paulo Cesar Pinheiro and produced another series of Afro-brazilian inspired music released in 1970 as "Os Cantores da Lapinha".
He visited and toured Europe frequently in the 1960's, relocating permanently to France in 1968. In the 1990's he and his family moved back to Brazil.
Baden Powell died on the 26th of September, 2000, in Rio de Janeiro.
He is the father of pianist Philippe Baden Powell de Aquino and guitarist Louis Marcel Powell de Aquino.
Discography
Albums
Template:Albumstabel |- align=center |align=left| Um Violão Na Madrugada || 1961 || align=left| Philips || |- align=center || |align=left| A Vontade || 1963 || align=left| Elenco || |- align=center || |align=left| Baden Powell Swings with Jimmy Pratt || 1963 || align=left| Elenco || |- align=center |align=left| Le Monde Musical de Baden Powell, Vol. 1 || 1964 || align=left| Barclay || |- align=center || |align=left| Billy Nencioli + Baden Powell || 1965 || align=left| Barclay/Polygram || |- align=center || |align=left| Tristeza on Guitar || 1966 || align=left| MPS/Saba || |- align=center || |align=left| Ao Vivo No Teatro Santa Rosa || 1966 || align=left| Elenco || |- align=center || |align=left| Os Afro Sambas de Baden e Vinicius || 1966 || align=left| Forma || |- align=center || |align=left| Tempo Feliz || 1966 || align=left| Forma/Polygram || |- align=center || |align=left| Poema on Guitar || 1968 || align=left| MPS/Saba || |- align=center || |align=left| Fresh Winds || 1969 || align=left| United Artists || |- align=center || |align=left| 27 Horas de Estudio || 1969 || align=left| Elenco || |- align=center || |align=left| Le Monde Musical de Baden Powell, Vol. 2 || 1969 || align=left| Barclay || |- align=center || |align=left| Canto on Guitar || 1970 || align=left| MPS/Saba || |- align=center || |align=left| Os Cantores Da Lapinha || 1970 || align=left| Elenco || |- align=center || |align=left| Solitude on Guitar || 1971 || align=left| Columbia || |- align=center || |align=left| Baden Powell Quartet, Vols. 1-3 || 1970 || align=left| Barclay || |- align=center || |align=left| Baden Powell - Live In Japan '70 || 1971 || align=left| Barclay || |- align=center || |align=left| E de Lei || 1972 || align=left| Philips || |- align=center || |align=left| Le Grand Reunion || 1974 || align=left| Festival || |- align=center || |align=left| Estudos || 1974 || align=left| MPS/Saba || |- align=center || |align=left| Apaixonado || 1975 || align=left| MPS/Saba || |- align=center || |align=left| The Frankfurt Opera Concert 1975 || 1975 || align=left| Tropical Music || |- align=center || |align=left| Nosso Baden || 1980 || align=left| WEA || |- align=center || |align=left| Melancolie || 1985 || align=left| Accord || |- align=center || |align=left| Seresta Brasileira || 1988 || align=left| Milestone || |- align=center || |align=left| Bossa Nova Guitarra Jubileu || 1993 || align=left| Saludos Amigos || |- align=center || |align=left| Three Originals || 1993 || align=left| MPS/Polygram || |- align=center || |align=left| Baden Powell || 1993 || align=left| MPS || |- align=center || |align=left| Rio Das Valsas || 1994 || align=left| Alex || |- align=center || |align=left| Guitar Pieces || 1994 || align=left| Etcetera || |- align=center || |align=left| Live in Hamburg || 1995 || align=left| Acoustic Music || |- align=center || |align=left| Guitar Music || 1995 || align=left| Etcetera/Qualiton || |- align=center || |align=left| Live in Rio || 1996 || align=left| Iris || |- align=center || |align=left| Os Afro Sambas || 1996 || align=left| Iris || |- align=center || |align=left| Felicidade || 1996 || align=left| Adda || |- align=center || |align=left| Rio Das Valsas || 1996 || align=left| Iris || |- align=center || |align=left| Mestres Da MPB || 1996 || align=left| WEA Latina || |- align=center || |align=left| Baden Powell a Paris || 1996 || align=left| Rge || |- align=center || |align=left| Baden Powell || 1997 || align=left| Musidisc || |- align=center || |align=left| A Vontade || 1997 || align=left| Polygram Brazil || |- align=center || |align=left| Guitar Artistry of Baden Powell || 1998 || align=left| Dom || |- align=center || |align=left| Baden Powell de Aquino || 2001 || align=left| Iris || |- align=center || |align=left| Lembrancas || 2001 || align=left| Trama || |- align=center || |align=left| De Rio a Paris || 2003 || align=left| Body & Soul || |- align=center || |align=left| Fremeaux and Associates Recordings 1994-1996 || 2003 || align=left| Fremeaux & Associes || |- align=center || |align=left| O Universo Musical de Baden Powell || 2003 || align=left| Sunnyside || |- align=center || |align=left| Rio das Valsas || 2003 || align=left| Iris || |- align=center || |align=left| Live in Montreux || 2004 || align=left| Fremeaux & Associes || |- align=center || |align=left| Le Monde Musical de Baden Powell || 2005 || align=left| Universal || |- align=center || |align=left| At the Rio Jazz Club || 2005 || align=left| Iris || |- align=center || |align=left| Baden Live a Bruxelles || 2005 || align=left| Sunnyside || |- align=center || |align=left| Musica || 2005 || align=left| WEA International || |}
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