|
|
 |
Beautiful Bossa from Rio's Seu Jorge
|
| Click Here to go back. |
NPR World Cafe, Beautiful Bossa from Rio's Seu Jorge >>
The music of Seu Jorge occupies a singular place in today's Brazil. His songs are hailed as a return to the traditional songwriting of Tom Jobim and Caetano Veloso. But his style, and his background, lead many to call Jorge a hero of life on Rio's streets.
It was his history in the slums of Rio de Janeiro that led to bigger things for Jorge, as he appeared in the 2002 film City of God. The intense look into the desperate lives led in Brazil's favelas won international acclaim.
In America, many listeners were first exposed to Jorge's music in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the Wes Anderson film that featured Jorge as a guitar-playing member of a sea expedition crew. He appeared between narrative sequences, playing intimate versions of David Bowie classics.
In recent months, Jorge has released Cru, a calmer follow-up to his Carolina of 2002. The songs on it are a mix of ballads and bossa nova that is helping cement Seu Jorge's place in the line of great Brazilian songwriters and performers
-David Dye 12/06/05 >> go there
|
| Click Here to go back. |
|
 |
|
|
|
