Occasionally he’ll use a singer like Ed Motta or Ivan Lins. There are many voicings for strings, guitar, horns. His work is a dense and complex contrapuntal web. Since then Guinga has put out nine albums. The song was called “Chorado” and was tucked into the back of the cd’s cuts. I first heard Guinga’s work on Sergio Mendes wonderful 1992 cd Brasileiro. His guitar teacher is one of Brazil’s best: Jodacil Damasceno. He works full time as a dentist and the rest of the time he plays guitar and composes. His friends called him “Gringo” because of his pale skin, and gringo in Brazilian Portuguese sounds like “Guinga”, so the nickname stuck. He was born Carlos Althier de Souza Lemos Escobar in Rio de Janeiro in 1950. He performed two shows in LA, the first at MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art) the second, with Ivan Lins, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. That’s probably because he doesn’t record much, and his cd’s have all been imports, many of which are now out-of-print. Guinga is probably the most interesting contemporary Brazilian composer.
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