Ivete Sangalo















Been born in Juazeiro (BA), Ivete Sangalo became a phenomenon of music and the media in the last years. She started to be interested in singing when she was three years old. In her adolescence, “the wheel of saraus” left her familiar to sing and to play the guitar in the “gincanas”, festivals and diverse presentations promoted by the college where she studied. Her professional debut was in a small bar in Ondina, near Salvador, she was taken by her sister Mônica, who already sang and performed in the place.




























At that time, her fee was paid with one supper in the place. In a short time, Ivete was appearing in cities like Juazeiro and Senhor of the Bonfim, in Bahia, and Petrolina, in Pernambuco. At this time, she was invited to open a show of Geraldo Azevedo, in the “Theater of the Center of Culture João Gilberto”, in Juazeiro, and, shortly afterwards, to participate in one “micareta“ (a kind of Carnival off season) in Monte do chapéu, interior of Bahia. The “Jonga” producer Wedge realized her potential and decided to put together a show where Ivete gave emphasis to the sound of funk. During the rehearsals, the lead singer traveled for the interior of the Bahia following as backing vocal of the singer Lui Muritiba. The debut of the show of the singer was in the Boate Sirigüela, in the quarter of Ondina, in Salvador, in August of 1992. For this show, she won the Trophy Caymmi 1992, the Grammy of “bahian” music. With an increasing public, Ivete and her Band had presented in the Project Noon, in the Market Model, in 1993, and Jonga Wedge suggested that the extinct Eva Band should be reinvented, this time having Ivete in the front.














The first record, "Eva Band", was launched by Sony Music. The following record, "Pra Abalar" (Polygram), hit three songs: "Alô, Paixão", "Pra Abalar" and "Flores".
In each new record, the songs were easily assimilated by the fans. In her last work, in the front of the Eva Band, "Eva, You and I" (Polygram), the singer blew up as author of the hit "Carro Velho". The six records of the Eva Band sold four million copies.
The muse and sex symbol, Ivete left for a single career and launched her first record, that took her name, in 1999. In the same year she opened a producer label, the “Caco de Telha” electric Productions and Events, that, beyond it, pilots blocks, trios and an publishing company.

Project from
Rebeca Almeida Gomes
Progress 2
Teacher Fernanda

Centro Britânico - Colégio Batista

CHICO BUARQUE - Brazilian singer and composer
















Francisco Buarque de Hollanda was born in June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro.
He is a Brazilian singer, composer, dramatist and writer and his main styles are samba, mpb and bossa nova.

Chico, who is popular in Brazil, Portugal, México, Spain, France and United States, has a musical style that shows Brazil’s social, economic and cultural reality. His father was a famous sociologist, Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, and his uncle was the creator of Aurelio´s dictionary, Aurélio Buarque de Hollanda.



























Chico Buarque spent part of his adolescence in Italy and when he returned to Brazil he began to compose the first bossa nova songs. He was 21 years old when he recorded the single “Pedro Pedreiro” and then he became famous.
Although there were others singers with him: Edu Lôbo, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia, Gilberto Gil, Nara Leão and Os Mutantes, Chico composed songs that criticized the Military Government installed in Brazil. So, he was arrested and exiled in Italy.

Despite the oppression by Brazilian government, Chico helped filmmakers, playwriters, and musicians in many protests against the dictatorship, when he came back (during the 1970s an 1980s).
Even though Chico still writes songs, he also writes books; one of them called “Budapeste” that received the “Prêmio Jabuti”.

His famous songs are: “Vai Passar”, “A Banda”, “Apesar de Você”, “Homenagem ao Malandro”, “Teresinha”, “Mulheres de Atenas”, “Roda Viva”, “Samba de Orly”, “Bye Bye Brasil”, “Valsinha”, “Construção”, “Até o Fim” and “Meu Guri”.

Project from
Camilla Alencar
Progress 2
Teacher Fernanda

Centro Britânico -Colégio Batista

Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson is a Hawaiian singer. He grew up on the North Shore of Oahu In Hawaii. He started to play the guitar when he was 14. The first songs he learned were "One" by Metallica and "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens. He made surf movies before starting singing. He was a surf champion on the professional route with sponsorship of Quicksilver.
He is the singer and the songwriter of his three albums "Brushfire Fairytales" (in winter 2001), "On and On" ( in May 2003) and "In Between Dreams" (March 2005).
He performed in Brazil on April 7th, 2006.

Project from
Isabela, Felipe, Fauzer, Juliana, Guilherme and Gabriel
Progress 1
Teacher Marcia

Centro Britânico
Lapa Branch

Marisa Monte - Brazilian Singer















Marisa does not remember when she began singing.
We know that, at the age of fourteen, she began studing "bel canto" - type of singing.
From there on she, at the same time, participated in plays presented by Colégio Andrews.
Already appreciating Maria Callas and Billie Holiday, Marisa was part of a generation that began to "boil" and create Brazilian rock. She entered college at National School of Music passing tests on specific skills and all.

The interesting fact, besides her singing career, is the as a partner of the artist Jeff Svoboda, Marisa was the owner of a fashion factory of women's clothing articles. She created purses, belts, agendas and other leather articles; hair pins, earrings and rings from prosaic materials such as light switches, old bottoms from jackets found on clothes stores, and teddy bear eyes. The business flourished in a rented room in Rio de Janeiro's Lapa .

Here are some of Marisa's albuns:
































Project from
Isadora Raquel Petry
Starter 2
Teacher Fernanda

Centro Britânico
Perdizes Branch

Music styles

Pop music

Origins: A variety of influences , especially Rock and Roll and Rhythm and Blues. Cultural origins: 1950's United States. Typical instruments: Electric guitar, Bass guitar , drums , keyborad , synthesizes. Subgeners: Blubblegum pop - Traditional Pop music Fusion genres: Pop punk - pop rap - power pop. Regional scenes: Americas , Europe , United States and Musica Popular Brasileira. Pop music is a subgenre of popular music. It may be distinguished from classical or art music and from folk music, but since the term spans many rock , hip hop , rhythm and blues country dance and pop acts, it is reasonable to say that pop music is a loosely defined category.
















The Beatles

















Marron 5






















Rob Thomas - from Matchbox 20

It may also be classified as soft rock or pop/rock. It is a music genre which began in the 1950's and it grew out of the sounds of the Swingbands of the 30s, the Blues of Chicago , and Country music from Tennessee. The electric guitar and amplification has had a big impact on modern music. In the 30s and 40s amplified instruments became necessary to compete with the loud volumes in the big Swingbands of the era.


Rock Music

Origins: Rock and roll, blues, country music and R&B. Cultural Origins: Late 1940s USA. Subgenres: Garage rock , Hard rock , soft rock , pub rock , Jam band and etc. Typical Instruments: Guitar- bass - drums- occasionaly key boards. Rock is a form of popular musci, usually featuring vocals, eletric guitars, bass guitar, and a a strong back beat; other instruments such as the saxophone, trumpet, and trombone are common in some styles, however, horns have been omitted from newer subgenres of rock music since the 90s. The genre rock is broad, and it is boundaries loosly-defined, with distantly related genres such as soul sometimes being included.













The Rolling Stones





















Green Day


Project from
Roberta Pereira Ab and Eduardo Lazzari
Higher 1
Teacher Anna

Centro Britânico
Lapa Branch