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Alexandre Guimarães
1+ albums
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Alexandre Guimarães is a composer and a guitar player. He was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Listenning to master Toninho Horta learned guitar language . He took guitar and improvisation classes with Juarez Moreira and Celso Moreira. To complete his musical education he studied harmony and arrangement with the Cuban maestro Nestor Lombida. In the 90’s appeared in the brazilian musical scenario with Brigitte, a pop rock band that inserted humor to the sound track of "Vamp" and "Deus nos acuda", soap operas from Globo Channel. From 1998 to 2002 the Colombian baixista Carlos Betancourt and Alexandre created the Q’late band. They explored latin and brazilian rhythm’s mixture. As a solo artist embraced also the small guitar "cavaquinho" which enabled him to develop a good work emphasizing samba and other brazilian rhythms. The musician Alexandre offers a subtile mixture of electronic and pop music elements improvising chorinho, bossa nova and jazz according to the brazilian traditional spirit. His solo work can be heard either with the CD “L’oiseau” (1998) as in the recent one “O Mar no Fundo do Casco” (2008) User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.