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Several things inspired me to register LoungeBR. First, I am a composer myself. I use to collect tons of different albums from the many composers in Brazil to study their work, and this gave me the will to show all this amazing music to people.

Some years ago I discovered a great podcast on the web, from a great producer who lives in Sao Paulo and maintains a podcast about pop music in portuguese language. His podcast is huge and popular, but it lacks many of the greatest and unknown brazilian songs, because it only plays pop music. I know people all around the world who loves brazilian music, so that's why I've recorded it in English, an idiom which I love. This is helpful, because I can also study the idiom. Besides, I have a fully functional homestudio, which I mounted with the will of producing my own music in the future. And on the top of that, I am a systems analyst and a blogger. After all this, I couldn't live without doing this website. So I made this effort and launched LoungeBR.

Brazilian culture was always about music and religion. Three different races were put together in an unkown and awesome piece of land, with different beliefs.There was no formal education to natives or africans, music was the only way to preserve their memory. No literature. No religious symbols allowed by the Holy Church. The portuguese idiom is the only one that has a word to express the feeling of missing something (the homeland, in this case): "saudade". This place was totally inspiring. Dozens of lovely tales mentioning unnatural wild beings all time, everywhere. Many forbidden love stories among the mix between the three skin colors. Extreme heat and extreme cold in the same piece of land. A highly fertile earth that could grow everything you could seed on it. Time to wait for the crop. We had comfort, discomfort, time, passion, love and saudade. And the only way to express it, for the majority of people, was by musical means.

Later, all other lands in America discovered their new music also, such as blues/jazz in USA. My opinion is that it happened first here, 'cause the miscigenation happened in a much wider way, and this allowed us to get that valuable 'thing' in African rythms. We have thousands of very different and new rythms spreading all over the country because of that. This new music meant 'big news' all over the world. Villa Lobos brought it to classic music, while Tom Jobim and João Gilberto had a major impact in jazz music, since the historical Bossa Nova night in Carnegie Hall. Many big music artists, like Bill Evans, Michel Legrand and Sinatra himself, couldn't live ignoring our composers.

Now, I'll teach you something about the greatest brazilian artists I met. During my childhood, Hermeto Pascoal was my neighbour. It was this way for 14 years, in Bairro Jabour, Rio de Janeiro. He is my major influence. Not because I went there to see him, but just because of the opposite - I didn't!. When I fell in love with music, I couldn't stop listening to his compositions, learning from that and feeling sorry about myself cause I didn't meet him personaly. He is some kind of harmonic and rythmic wizard, the composer of so many gorgeous songs such as Ginga

Carioca or Canção no Paiol de Curitiba. His songs are mostly inspired in Northeast rythms, such as Maracatu and Baião. He was born there. Another great composer is Guinga. His songs are made to study A LOT! Fortunately, I could have some classes with him. He's composing yet another very different kind of brazilian music. I am also highly influenced by broken rythms in progressive rock - Gentle Giant and Rush songs mainly. Bossa Nova from Jobim and João Gilberto, Egberto Gismonti's songs and Yamandu Costa are also in my heart. And jazz, of course: Chick Corea, Sarah Vaughan,Herbie Hancock... Together with the jazzy electronic music, such as Cafe Del Mar, Saint Germain, Jazzanova and a little of house and trance music.

In LoungeBR, I am expecting to publish more editions a week, bringing some pop music also. I am also planning to make interviews and videos. My wife's first album is being recorded, the very successful singer Manu Santos, who is amazing in her show. "Manu Santos é uma cantora única", as they use to say here. She is a very good singer indeed, and she's already recorded my first two compositions that I'll feature here in the future. I will get closer to other brazilian music producers and lovers over the web and work something out together with them (you guys, for example). I'll also post some of my compositions in LoungeBR, just to share some of my own music with people all around the world.
If you want to know a little bit more about brazilian music, you can visit LoungeBR, the brazilian music website.

If you want to know more about the amazing singer Manu Santos, you can watch her freely at Manu Santos, a cantora com o show mais impactante da nova mpb.
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