Celso Fonseca
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Em breve novo CD nas lojas: " No meu filme ". New release is coming out next month !
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Comments
- Pilar Homem de Melo10 months ago
Oi Celso!
É um prazer estar aqui ouvindo tua Música!!
Muita Paz e Sucesso para você!!
beijos
Pilar - Erika Farias de Melo10 months ago
Celso SAMBA É TUDO!!!
- Ro Favilla1 year ago
Música de primeira.
Congrats,
Ro Favilla
ARTCRAFT MUSIC - Pablo Fonseca de Pinho1 year ago
vem pra San Francisco! : D
- João Miguel Valencise1 year agoMUITO OBRIGADO POR TER ME ACEITADO EM SEU GRUPO DEFOLLOW ME - TWITTER:
http://www.twitter.com/miguelvalencise - Nancy Anderson-Gibson1 year ago
Just stopped by to say hello.
Beijos and virtually yours, Nancy :-)) - Milena Torres bem Acomp…1 year ago
..Boa Musica sempre Celso. Obrigada por add. Axé!
- Ana Martel1 year ago
Salve, Celso :) Fico maravilhada ouvindo estas canções, pois pra mim, SAMBA É TUDO!
** - Aline Mianda2 years ago
Obrigada por add.
amei...bjs!!! - Samantha James2 years ago
Celso... I can't believe that you just wrote me... I don't check my myspace page all of the time and I literally just went on to write YOU !!!! Amazing . This world is an incredible place. Look at that just by me thinking of you and you wrote me. Do you skype ? If so I would love to catch up . I am putting a project together for the people of haiti and would love for you to write a song with me .. Again ,if you're free. My new album comes out in a couple of month.. Finally . And you ? How are you ??
Miss you ton's.. Please lets connect .xooxSamantha
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Genre: Acoustic / Jazz / Other
Location Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Br
Profile Views: 125099
Last Login: 1/18/2012
Member Since 4/10/2006
Website www.celsofonseca.com.br
Record Label Polaróides / EMI
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
Instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer, Celso Fonseca was born in Rio de Janeiro and start to play its first chords when he was quite young, on an acoustic guitar borrowed from his uncle. He openly confesses that it was Baden Powells music that led him to play. At age 11 he already played his own guitar, which was a present from his father... ..At age 19 after quit the journalist classes at the university, he decided to study music seriously and from then on it was a short step for him to take up the guitarrist carrer and join Gilberto Gils band... ..Besides that, Celso Fonseca has played as a sideman and recorded with the greatest artists from Brazilian Music,such as: Milton Nascimento, Djavan, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Chico Buarque de Holanda, Marisa Monte, Bebel Gilberto, JooBosco, JorgeBenjor, ElzaSoares, AdrianaCalcanhotto, VirginiaRodrigues, Vinicius Cantuaria, among many others. He took more than twenty international tours in countless festivals in Europe, USA, Canada and Japan... ..As a producer, the highligts are his works in albuns like Gils "O eterno Deus Mu dana", Gal Costas "Aquele frevo ax", the albuns "Sol Negro" and "Nos", of the singer from Bahia, Virginia Rodrigues, the two first albuns of singer Daude, the album "Lisboa/Rio" of the master instrumentalist from Portugal, Antnio Chainho, the album "Sabia" of japanese singer Chie and many others works on albuns of artists like Daniela Mercury, Clara Moreno, Paula Morelenbaum, Zeca Baleiro, Adriana Maciel, etc.. ..In 1999 Celso won with Gil and band the Grammy Award of best World Music Album with the album "Quanta Live"... ..As a composer, he has written many songs recorded by Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Carlinhos Brown, Maria Bethania, Vinicius Cantuaria, Daude, Antnio Chainho, Nana Caymmi,etc.. ..Celso has nine critically acclaimed solo albuns: "Minha cara" (1986), "O som do sim" (1993) and the trilogy made in duo with brazilian songwriter Ronaldo Bastos: Sorte (1994), Paradiso (1997) and Juventude / Slow motion Bossa Nova which has 3 times Latin Grammy nomination in 2002. His album "Natural" was released by the Belgium label Ziriguiboom / Crammed in 2003. In 2004 , the same label had released "Rive Gauche Rio " , included in a list of the 10 best records of 2004 ,according to "The Sunday Times " . In 2006 ,Dubas Musica had released a compilation called " Polaroides " ,with 3 bonus tracks. In 2007,"Feriado" has been released in Brasil only... ..In 2004 he has been in a big US Tour starting at NY's Blue Note. Also he was the second brazilian artist to be on "Later with Jools" the Jools Holland show on BBC. Celso Fonseca has been touring the world with his band playing a lot of Concerts in Europe US and Japan... -
Members
Celso Fonseca: Guitars, vocal, percussion, keys, samplers, etc .. Flavio Santos: Drums ,percussion .. Jorjao Barreto: Keyboards,vocal, big humor .. Fabio Lessa: Bass ,vocal, samplers, all sorts of noises .. Arimatéa: Trumpet and flugelhorn.. Fernando Trocado: Saxes and flute.. Sergio de Jesus: Trombone MANAGEMENT BRASIL.. celsofonseca@celsofonseca.com.br -
Influences
Tom Jobim, Baden Powell, Joao Gilberto, Carlos Lyra, Marcos Valle, Chico Buarque, James Taylor, The Beatles, Burt Bacharach, Cole Porter, Debussy, Miles Davis, Eric Satie, Wes Montgomery, Eumir Deodato, Synval Silva, Paulinho da Viola, George Benson, Gilberto Gil, Paul Desmond, Roberto Carlos, Zé Keti, Azymuth and many, many others singer / songwriters... -
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