Modern Music of Brazil

The present Brazilian music follows the guidelines of both experimentalism and traditional music. Some of the current Brazilian singers are Amaral Vieira, Silvio Ferraz, Flo Menezes, Marcos, Balter, Alexandre Lunsqui, Rodolfo Ceasar, Felipe Lara, Edson Zampronha, Marcus Siqueira, Rodrigo Lima, Lima, Jorge Antunes, Roberto Victorio and Joao MacDowell.

 

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Brazil has a large number of internationally recognized groups and performers in spite the relatively low support by the government. The most popular Brazilian group is possibly the Sao Paulo State Symphony groups, recent under the French conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier. Other Brazilian groups worthy of the note are the Sao Paulo University Symphony, the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira and the Petrobras sinfonica that is supported by the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras.

Some of the popular of the Brazilian conductors are Roberto Minczuk, John Neschling and Isaac Kakabtchevsky, the instrumentalists which include; Roberto Szidon, Antonio Meneses, Cussy de Almeida, Giberto Tinetti, Arnaldo Cohen, Nelson Freire, Eudoxia de Barros, Guiomar Novaes and Magda Tagliaferro among others. Also, some of the main well-known Brazilian composers historically were, Zola Amaro, Constantiona Araujo and Bidu Sayao also the living composers which include the Eliane Coelho, Kismara Pessatti, Maria Lucia Godoy, Sebastiao Teixeira and others.

In the 1980 was a wave of Brazilian heavy metal groups gained a public attention, the main commercially successful of these was Sepultura, which was founded in Sao Paulo in the year 1983, and led by Dorsal Altantica and followed by Sarcofago. The interruption of foreign elements in Brazil as the cultural system is not a destructive process, and the return of a democratic government allowed for the freedom of expression. The Brazilian music industry is opened up to the international patterns and this has allowed for both alien and local genres to co-exist and to identify with the people. Each of the various patterns relates to the people socially, politically and economically. The Brazil is a regionally divided country with a rich cultural and musical range among states. As the musicians in the country choose to define their local heritage of the differently that depend on where they come from. This shows the globalization that robbed Brazil of its identity but instead that give it the ability to represent the people of both in the Brazil and the rest of the world.