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Vinícius de Moraes and
Toquinho are (or were in the case of Vinícius) a good singer and
guitarist team, and Dorival Caymmi at over seventy is the doyen of
Bahian musicians. Whilst all these figures have been going strongly
for decades now, an artist to look out for is Zeca Baleiro from
Maranhão who, with his bumba-meu-boi - and reggae-influenced style,
has been described as one of the most innovative performers to have
emerged in Brazil in the 1990s.
Too many musicians these days, though, waste their time attempting
to fuse Brazilian genres with rock-based formats. It's not that it
can't be done - tropicalismo pulled it off several times in the
1960s - but the type of rock music currently most popular in Brazil,
appalling heavy metal and stadium rock, is completely incompatible
with the subtle, versatile musical imagination of Brazilians.
National radio and the dominant São Paulo radio stations pump out
the worst kind of British and US FM blandness, and this has spawned
a host of Brazilian imitations, almost all of them embarrassingly
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The other possible criticism of Brazilian music is that, while its
popular roots are healthier than ever, nobody of similar stature has
come up to succeed the towering figures of the 1960s and 1970s. Elis
is dead, Gil, Caetano, Chico and Milton are still producing but are
no longer young, and, while younger talent abounds, there's nothing
at the moment which could be called genius - a lot to demand of
anyone, but it's a tribute to Brazilian music that its pedigree
allows us to judge it by the highest standards
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