{"id":7852,"date":"2016-08-13T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/08\/13\/weekend-listening-7-medal-worthy-collaborations-with-brazilian-artists\/"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T12:00:17","slug":"weekend-listening-7-medal-worthy-collaborations-with-brazilian-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/weekend-listening-7-medal-worthy-collaborations-with-brazilian-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend LISTening: 7 Medal-Worthy Collaborations With Brazilian Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

By David Dye<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Brazilian artists Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil have collaborated with each other \u2014 and, as you’ll hear in this playlist, with other international artists. Marcos Hermes\/Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Right now, the world’s focus is on Rio for the 2016 Olympics<\/a>. Brazil is on our minds, too, so we’ve made a weekend playlist filled with international collaborations between Brazilian artists and other musicians from around the globe. These are some extraordinary duets, from bossa nova to tropicalia and beyond. No Olympic competition here \u2014 just collaboration!<\/p>\n

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Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz<\/h5>\n

“The Girl From Ipanema” was the height of bossa nova, and it’s still the song everyone conjures when they think of Rio. The song was inspired by a real person, Hel\u00f4 Pinheiro, who would pass by the bar-caf\u00e9 where composers Antonio Carlos Jobim<\/a> and Vinicius De Moraes sat and sought inspiration. Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz<\/a>‘s version was a worldwide smash in 1964.<\/p>\n

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Seu Jorge and Beck<\/h5>\n

A remix of Beck<\/a>‘s song “Tropicalia” with the Brazilian singer Seu Jorge<\/a> appeared on the second Red Hot + Rio<\/em> compilation, which was released in 2011 to benefit HIV\/AIDS awareness and prevention.<\/p>\n

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Caetano Veloso and David Byrne<\/h5>\n

The Brazilian superstar Caetano Veloso<\/a> played a concert with David Byrne<\/a> at Carnegie Hall in 2014. They mostly performed Veloso’s music, along with this Talking Heads classic, “(Nothing But) Flowers”.<\/p>\n

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Vinicius Cantu\u00e1ria and Bill Frisell<\/h5>\n

The renowned guitarist Bill Frisell<\/a> and the Brazilian singer-songwriter Vinicius Cantu\u00e1ria<\/a> finish each other’s musical sentences on the 2011 album L\u00e1grimas Mexicanas<\/em>, which features Cantu\u00e1ria’s gorgeous compositions. The two performed “Calle 7” live on WNYC’s Soundcheck.<\/p>\n

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Gilberto Gil and Jimmy Cliff<\/h5>\n

There’s no question as to Bob Marley’s influence throughout the world \u2014 and certainly in Brazil. Here, the Jamaican reggae star Jimmy Cliff<\/a> and Brazil’s musical ambassador Gilberto Gil<\/a> pay tribute to Marley with “No Woman No Cry”.<\/p>\n

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Luis Bonfa and Perry Como<\/h5>\n

This video is from 1963, when the bossa nova craze was heating up in the U.S. It’s a wonderful document: Como sheepishly confesses that he doesn’t speak “Brazilian,” and Bonfa zings him back a moment later. (I also recommend this great Smithsonian Folkways reissue<\/a> of the guitarist’s solo work, recorded in 1958.)<\/p>\n

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Olodum and Michael Jackson<\/h5>\n

Michael Jackson<\/a> and director Spike Lee had to go to court in Rio to be allowed to shoot this video in the Dona Marta favela \u2014 but the residents didn’t seem to have a problem. The power of the drum corps Olodum helps convey Jackson’s message as they all dance through the streets of Salvador, the group’s hometown.<\/p>\n

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\"Brazilian<\/a><\/div>\n
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Brazilian artists Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil have collaborated with each other \u2014 and, as you’ll hear in this playlist, with other international artists. Marcos Hermes\/Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

toggle caption<\/strong> Marcos Hermes\/Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Right now, the world’s focus is on Rio for the 2016 Olympics<\/a>. Brazil is on our minds, too, so we’ve made a weekend playlist filled with international collaborations between Brazilian artists and other musicians from around the globe. These are some extraordinary duets, from bossa nova to tropicalia and beyond. No Olympic competition here \u2014 just collaboration!<\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/div>\n
Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz<\/h5>\n

“The Girl From Ipanema” was the height of bossa nova, and it’s still the song everyone conjures when they think of Rio. The song was inspired by a real person, Hel\u00f4 Pinheiro, who would pass by the bar-caf\u00e9 where composers Antonio Carlos Jobim<\/a> and Vinicius De Moraes sat and sought inspiration. Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz<\/a>‘s version was a worldwide smash in 1964.<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/div>\n
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\n<\/div>\n
Seu Jorge and Beck<\/h5>\n

A remix of Beck<\/a>‘s song “Tropicalia” with the Brazilian singer Seu Jorge<\/a> appeared on the second Red Hot + Rio<\/em> compilation, which was released in 2011 to benefit HIV\/AIDS awareness and prevention.<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/div>\n
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Caetano Veloso and David Byrne<\/h5>\n

The Brazilian superstar Caetano Veloso<\/a> played a concert with David Byrne<\/a> at Carnegie Hall in 2014. They mostly performed Veloso’s music, along with this Talking Heads classic, “(Nothing But) Flowers”.<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/div>\n
\n
\n<\/div>\n
Vinicius Cantu\u00e1ria and Bill Frisell<\/h5>\n

The renowned guitarist Bill Frisell<\/a> and the Brazilian singer-songwriter Vinicius Cantu\u00e1ria<\/a> finish each other’s musical sentences on the 2011 album L\u00e1grimas Mexicanas<\/em>, which features Cantu\u00e1ria’s gorgeous compositions. The two performed “Calle 7” live on WNYC’s Soundcheck.<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/div>\n
\n
\n<\/div>\n
Gilberto Gil and Jimmy Cliff<\/h5>\n

There’s no question as to Bob Marley’s influence throughout the world \u2014 and certainly in Brazil. Here, the Jamaican reggae star Jimmy Cliff<\/a> and Brazil’s musical ambassador Gilberto Gil<\/a> pay tribute to Marley with “No Woman No Cry”.<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/div>\n
\n
\n<\/div>\n
Luis Bonfa and Perry Como<\/h5>\n

This video is from 1963, when the bossa nova craze was heating up in the U.S. It’s a wonderful document: Como sheepishly confesses that he doesn’t speak “Brazilian,” and Bonfa zings him back a moment later. (I also recommend this great Smithsonian Folkways reissue<\/a> of the guitarist’s solo work, recorded in 1958.)<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/div>\n
\n
\n<\/div>\n
Olodum and Michael Jackson<\/h5>\n

Michael Jackson<\/a> and director Spike Lee had to go to court in Rio to be allowed to shoot this video in the Dona Marta favela \u2014 but the residents didn’t seem to have a problem. The power of the drum corps Olodum helps convey Jackson’s message as they all dance through the streets of Salvador, the group’s hometown.<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/div>\n

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