Samba

Singer Seu Jorge spearheaded the Brazilian samba renaissance of the early 21st century, expanding his audience far beyond South America via featured roles in the internationally acclaimed films City of Godand The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Born Jorge Mario da Silva on June 8, 1970, he spent his childhood in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, working odd jobs to survive. While serving his year of compulsory military service, he also played cornet in a Brazilian army band. In 1991, Jorge's 16-year-old brother was killed by Rio police. At the funeral he met Gabriel Moura, nephew of Brazilian saxophonist Paolo Maura, who agreed to put Jorge in touch with other aspiring musicians looking to form a band. He spent the next three years teaching himself guitar, and in 1993 was hired as an actor and musician with Tuerj, a theatrical troupe sponsored by the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Jorge appeared in close to two dozen Tuerj productions in the months to follow before exiting in 1996 to lead Farofa Carioca, a major-label Brazilian pop outfit that sold few records but nevertheless anticipated the commercial revival of samba.

América Brasil (2007)

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Música Para Churrasco Vol.1 (2011)

Músicas Para Churrasco is Seu Jorge's idea of a party album. It is a cliché and a national stereotype to say it, but there are very few safer bets than a party album by a Brazilian artist, and Seu Jorge could not possibly disappoint on that matter. From the opening shout of the irresistible single "A Doida" to the smooth closer "Quem Não Quer Sou Eu," this short album turns on the funk, puts the meat on the grill, unloads the beer, and calls on all neighbors and friends to join the barbecue party mentioned in the title.Seu Jorge's characters are typically male rascals from suburban Rio, with a chauvinist mind and a sole preoccupation: women. All of them, a crazy girlfriend, a new neighbor, an exotic Japanese beauty, the wife's best friend, all are a headache and all are fair game. The music may hint here and there at the samba or the pagode -- in the use of cavaquinho or Brazilian percussion instruments -- but the cold fact is that Músicas Para Churrasco is nothing but an unrepentant old-school funk album, of the Brazilian variety. Seu Jorge continues to be obsessed with the 1970s, and this one sounds as if Parliament/Funkadelic went on a vacation south of the Equator, carrying all their horns, monster glasses, and wigs. Fun and brief, it is impossible not to enjoy Músicas Para Churrasco. At the same time, it is also one of Seu Jorge's most boisterous efforts, so it may frustrate listeners expecting the sensitive crooner persona of The Life Aquatic.