Garoto - O inventor da Bossa Nova? | A história de um dos maiores músicos do Brasil

➡️ https://ivansakavicius.com/aprenda-co... - Private Lessons ➡️ http://bit.ly/4bHmtKh - Online Course: Composition in Practice ➡️   / ivansakavicius.aulas   - Instagram Hey everyone...today I'm going to tell you the story of Anibal Augusto Sardinha, "Garoto," one of the greatest musicians Brazil has ever had! Was he really the inventor of Bossa Nova? Monday, June 28, 1915, in São Paulo, Anibal Augusto Sardinha was born, arguably the greatest Brazilian guitarist and inventor of Bossa Nova. Garoto was born near Avenida do Estado in the city of São Paulo, close to the Central Market. From a young age, he was quiet and preferred to stay home learning the various instruments from his older brother rather than being out on the streets getting into mischief with the other kids. At that time, he already had his improvised wooden guitar that he "played all the time." At age 11, he went to work in a music store in Brás and began to have contact with music and experiment with different instruments, including guitars and banjos. His father played the Portuguese guitar and the acoustic guitar, and his brother played the banjo, which was the first instrument Garoto received. We can say that he began his career with the banjo, and in 1926, at age 11, he joined the Regional Irmãos Armani ensemble, becoming known as the "Banjo Kid," a nickname that stuck with him. In São Paulo, he began to be mentored by Paraguaçu… one of the most famous musicians of the time, and his name began to spread! In 1930, at age 15, he experienced a turning point in his life… he was invited by Francisco Mignone to record an album and also recorded an album with his own compositions. In 1931, at age 16, he was already playing 7 string instruments! In 1936, he made his first trip to Rio to play on Radio Mayrink Veiga, one of the most important radio stations in Brazil at the time, and then returned to live permanently in Rio in 1938, hired by the radio station alongside Carmen Miranda and Laurindo de Almeida. Then in 1938 (at age 24), he did one of the most important things in Brazilian music… he went to the USA with Bando da Lua and Carmen Miranda. Because of the war at the time, he spent 40 days on the ship until he was released for an 8-month tour of the USA, and this tour was no walk in the park… they even played at the White House for President Franklin Roosevelt and at the World Expo in New York. He became known there as the man with the golden fingers in an article that appeared in one of the main magazines of the time in NY, because on the tour he visibly stood out from the others in the band… it was clear that the group was Carmen Miranda, Bando da Lua, and Garoto. That's why musicians like Duke Ellington started going to shows just to watch Garoto, as he played some solo songs at the beginning and end of the performances. Returning from the tour, he gradually distanced himself from Carmen Miranda until he left the group. But he returned to Brazil with practical and theoretical knowledge of Jazz…that changed everything!! Samba and choro, which were popular music at the time, gained the chords of Jazz and gradually became what would be called Bossa Nova. The song "De Cigarro em Cigarro" from 1950, considered the 1st Bossa Nova, was recorded by Garoto and Luiz Bonfá, another pioneer of the style. He worked in radio with Radamés Gnatalli, also one of the greatest Brazilian musicians of all time, and traveled periodically throughout Brazil playing in concert with Radamés…on radio and at festivals. His style went far beyond Jazz in Choro…he composed masterpieces inspired by the most modern musicians of the time, such as Claude Debussy. This shows that Garoto studied and researched to improve himself every day as a musician. He died prematurely in 1955 at the age of 40 from a heart attack... imagine what else he could have contributed to Brazilian music?! Until the next video!