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Som Brasil
12+ albums
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The whatmusic.com interview... tudo joía! I come from a musical family from Porto Alegre, in the very south of Brasil. My father and three brothers, all of them were musicians – drummers, guitarists and accordionists. I began playing all three instruments, but I ended up deciding to play the accordion myself. I started out professionally by playing ‘musica regional’. If you don’t know exactly what ‘regional’ is, it’s a type of group made up of two guitars, cavaquinho, accordion, flute and pandeiro and they used to accompany the ‘calouros’, as the new crop of singers were called, on the radio. After playing the accordion for some years I began to listen to an American group, the Art Van Damme Quintet. I was totally influenced by that sound and so I formed my first group with the exact same line up – electric guitar, vibraphone, bass, drums and accordion. Like I said, my first professional instrument was the accordion, but because of a heart problem, I lamentably had to give it up. That was when I started to play the vibraphone, which I played for many years. I only gave the vibes up in 1967 when the quartet broke up and there was no pianist to give me the necessary base for my vibes playing, so I was obliged to start playing piano, which is the instrument I’ve played until today! My first recordings were for the Columbia do Brasil label – ‘Breno Sauer Quinteto’, ‘Viva O Samba’ and ‘Viva O Ritmo’. Then I recorded for RGE – ‘Sambabessa’ and ‘Agostinho, Sempre Agostinho’
