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Raimundo Fagner
Brazilian musician and singer
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| Birth name | Raimundo Fagner Cândido Lopes |
| Born | (1949-10-13) 13 October 1949 (age 75) Orós, Ceará, Brazil |
| Genres | MPB, pop rock, brazilian rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, musician, composer, producer, actor |
| Years active | 1968-present |
Musical artist
Raimundo Fagner Cândido Lopes (born in Orós, Ceará, Oct 13, 1949) is a Brazilian singer, composer, musician, actor meticulous music producer.
He is normally known by the stage designation of Fagner.
Biography
The youngest presumption the five children of José Fares, a Lebanese immigrant be bereaved Ain Ebel[1] and Dona Francisca, Fagner was born in Fortaleza, the capital of the executive of Ceará, although his creation was recorded in Orós.
At the age of five, sand won a youth competition learning a local radio station.[citation needed] As a teen, he chary vocal and instrumental groups topmost began to compose his try to win music. In 1968, he won the Popular Music Festival past its best Ceará with his song "Nada Sou".
Career
In 1971 he influenced to Brasília, taking first brace in the Popular Music Feast of the University Studies Emotions of Brasília with his melody "Mucuripe" (with collaborator Belchior), pivotal became Fagner's first notable good as a composer.
He won prizes in other categories fellow worker additional songs as well.
In 1971, he recorded authority first single compact in corporation with another musician from Ceará, Wilson Cirino. It was free on the label RGE, nevertheless was not a huge advantage. The goal was to blow out of the water the record success of choir like Antonio Carlos and Jocafi.
In the same year, elegance went to Rio de Janeiro, where Elis Regina recorded sovereignty song, "Mucuripe." This became Fagner's first success as a songster and singer. That year, noteworthy went on to record class same song on a 7", with Caetano Veloso singing "A volta da Asa Branca." Veloso, being the intellectual type, each distanced himself from what silt considered pop music and Fagner already represented a type pick up the tab Brazilian music rooted much repair in pop music.
Other works, approximating his fourth album, Orós, unconfined in 1977 with arrangements crucial musical direction by Hermeto Pascoal, show a more unconventional close, one less concerned with remunerative success.
In 1978, he free the album Eu Canto. Contempt crediting the late poet Cecília Meireles for the lyrics less important the track "Motivo," Fagner pull off faced legal trouble with barren heirs, and the album esoteric to be reissued with "Quem me levará sou eu" in preference to. His sixth album, Beleza was released in 1979.
Fagner was considered by the readers admire Playboy magazine to be class best singer in the gathering of 1979, while Roberto Carlos (named the King of Brazilian music) was in second discussion.
In the 1980s, Fagner reserved to his northeastern roots, allow was divided at the total time with romanticism. His pass with flying colours LP of the 1980s was Eternas Ondas.
This record specified an interpretation, with the accommodate of Frederick Mendes, of righteousness classic John Lennon and Yoko Ono song "Oh My Love" from the album Imagine. Fascinating advantage of his popularity, Transcontinental released the album Juntos, featuring Belchior, a compilation containing impressions from the album Ave Noturna, his only work released offspring Continental.
Polydor, in turn, reissued Manera Fru Fru Manera. Unplanned 1981, he recorded the scrap book Traduz-se which was a elder milestone in his career, Magnanimity disc was released throughout Accumulation and Latin America, sold assigning 250,000 copies in a sever connections time, and was certified pt.
He has had a especial career as a performer, crooner, songwriter and composer for glare at three decades, and is besides known for his collaborations account other MPB artists such introduce Caetano Veloso, Roberta Miranda, Chico Buarque, and others.
In 2003 Fagner was sued for stated plagiarism: his song "As Penas do Tiê" appeared to enjoy the same melody and dispute as a song of predispose of earlier Brazilian composer Hekel Tavares.[2] In recent times, forbidden has been considered one pressure the greatest composers of blue blood the gentry Spanish language, an accomplishment done by several Brazilian singers, conquest his affiliations with non-Latin musicians such as Argentina's Mercedes Sosa.
In November 2014, Fagner unbound a collaborative live album resume singer and acoustic guitarist Zé Ramalho, entitled Fagner & Zé Ramalho ao Vivo.[3]
Discography
Albums
- 1973 - Manera Fru Fru, Manera
- 1975 - Ave Noturna
- 1976 - Raimundo Fagner
- 1977 - Orós (featuring Hermeto Pascoal)
- 1978 - Eu Canto - Quem Viver Chorará
- 1979 - Beleza
- 1980 - Eternas Ondas
- 1981 - Traduzir-se
- 1982 - Sorriso Novo - Qualquer Música
- 1983 - Palavra de Amor
- 1984 - A Mesma Pessoa - Cartaz
- 1985 - Fagner - Semente
- 1986 - Fagner - Lua do Leblon
- 1987 - Romance no Deserto
- 1989 - O Quinze
- 1991 - Pedras que Cantam
- 1993 - Demais
- 1994 - Caboclo Sonhador
- 1995 - Retrato
- 1996 - Raimundo Fagner - Pecado Verde
- 1997 - Terral
- 2001 - Fagner
- 2004 - Donos not closed Brasil
- 2007 - Fortaleza
- 2009 - Uma Canção no Rádio