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  • Eliane Elias
    Eliane Elias is a Brazilian jazz pianist, singer, composer and arranger. "SHORT BIO ELIANE ELIAS Multi GRAMMY® and Multi LATIN GRAMMY® Award winning internationally acclaimed recording artist,...
  • Dick Farney (1921 - 1987)
    Dick Farney (14 November 1921 – 4 August 1987), born Farnésio Dutra e Silva, was a Brazilian jazz pianist, composer, and singer who was popular in Brazil from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s and 1980s....
  • Booker Pittman (1909 - 1969)
    Booker Pittman . "American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and singer, born: October 3, 1909 in Fairmont Heights, Maryland, died October 13, 1969 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Recorded with Blanch...
  • Eliana Pittman
    Eliana Pittman (born Eliana Leite Da Silva; August 14, 1945), is a Brazilian singer and actress. Pittman was one of the more soulful singers of the early 1970s. The stepdaughter of the jazz saxophonist...
  • Milton Nascimento
    Milton Nascimento , stage name of Milton Silva Campos do Nascimento (born October 26, 1942), also known as Bituca , is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Nascimento has won five...

Here you will find a curated selection of great musicians from Portugal and Brazil.

The selection is made using the following requirements:

1- great quality of voice, vocal tuning, power of the voice (in the case of singers),

2- great proficiency in playing an instrument (in the case of instrumentalists),

3- high quality of the lyrics and vocabulary,

4- high-quality music under the spectrum of composition and harmony,

5- educational knowledge of music from the musicians,

6- the importance of their work decently representing the best of the culture, traditions, and folklore of their countries.

People with formal education in music (graduated from College or Conservatory of Music) are very welcome to take part in this project and help in the selection.

Projeto para os grandes músicos de Portugal e Brasil com uma curadoria e seleção apurada.

A escolha é feita mediante os seguintes requisitos:

1- ótima qualidade vocal, afinação, potência vocal (no caso dos cantores),

2- ótima proficiência na execução musical (para os instrumentistas),

3- alta qualidade das letras das músicas e do vocabulário empregado,

4- alta qualidade musical sob o espectro analítico de composição e harmonia,

5- educação/instrução dos músicos na área musical,

6- a importância do trabalho desses músicos ao representar dignamente o melhor da cultura, tradições e folclore do país de origem.

Pessoas com educação musical formal (formados em Faculdade de Música ou Conservatório Musical) são muito bem-vindas para fazer parte deste projeto e auxiliar na seleção dos perfis.