Paulo Vanzolini

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Paulo Vanzolini (São Paulo, April 25, 1923), with Adoniran Barbosa, is acknowledged as the biggest representative of the samba of São Paulo. A physician by education (1947) and a zoologist (acknowledged internationally as one of the most eminent) by profession, Vanzolini nevertheless also kept bohemian habits throughout his youth and maturity, always having been connected with music and malandragem (street smarts). Having started to write sambas in the 1940s, soon he proved to be a talented verse improviser; his lyrics are chronicles both of the bohemian and urban São Paulo and of the upstate way of life. As a composer, his biggest hits are the samba "Volta por Cima," launched in 1962 by Noite Ilustrada (and later re-recorded, among many others, by Maria Bethânia) and included in Gláuber Rocha's O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro (1969); and the samba-canção "Ronda," written in 1945 and launched by Inesita Barroso in 1953, being highly popular until today and becoming an anthem of the city of São Paulo. The song became successful in Márcia's re-recording in the 1960s, also recorded later by Maria Bethânia (on her LP Álibi, a top-seller of 1978), Nora Ney, Carmen Costa, and Ângela Maria, among others. In 1967, Vanzolini's friend and partner Luís Carlos Paraná and Marcus Pereira produced for Fermata the LP Paulo Vanzolini: Onze Sambas e Uma Capoeira, on which Vanzolini's songs were interpreted by Chico Buarque, Luís Carlos Paraná, and other artists. Writing lyrics an

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Onze Sambas E Uma Capoeira

Paulo Vanzolini Por Ele Mesmo

Acerto de Contas De Paulo Vanzolini

Por Ele Mesmo

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Brazil Daniel Rangel: Cavaquinho Seresteiro

Serestas Inesqueciveis

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Os Grandes Sambas da História

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Acerto de Contas de Paulo Vanzolini, Vol. 4

Brazil Ana De Hollanda: Tao Simples

Acerto de Contas

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Brazil Sambrasil (Na Cadencia Do Samba)

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Bach Goes to Town

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