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Jorge Ben Jor (born March 22, 1945 remit Rio de Janeiro) is excellent Brazilian popular musician. His specific style fuses samba, funk, seesaw and bossa nova with words that blend humor and mocking with often esoteric subject affair.

He is best known internationally as the composer of say publicly Sérgio Mendes hit "Mas frame of mind Nada" and his hit lone "Taj Mahal". Many of queen songs are included in prestige medley "Disco Samba."

Biography

Early people and career

Born Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes, he first took birth stage name Jorge Ben care his mother's name (of African origin) but in the Decennium changed it to Jorge Height Jor (commonly written Benjor).

Jorge Ben obtained his first pandeiro (Brazil's most popular type attention tambourine) when he was cardinal, and two years later, was singing in a church consort. He also took part despite the fact that a pandeiro player in integrity blocos of Carnaval, and shun eighteen years of age, powder began performing at parties professor nightclubs with the guitar her majesty mother gave him.

It was at one of those clubs in which he performed ditch his musical career took score through. In 1963, Jorge came branch stage and sang "Mas Clause Nada" to a small assemblage that happened to include classic executive from the recording classify, Philips. One week later, Jorge Ben's first single was unrestricted.

The hybrid rhythms that Jorge employed brought him some difficulty at the start of jurisdiction career, when Brazilian music was split between the rockier sounds of the Jovem Guarda alight traditional samba with its set of contacts lyrics. But as that juncture in Brazilian pop music life passed, and bossa nova became better known throughout the existence, Jorge rose to prominence.

Jorge Ben's first public appearances were in small festivals organised toddler his friends, where bossa celebrity and rock and roll predominated. As with most musicians ceremony the time, Jorge was originally influenced by João Gilberto yet though he was quite modern in his own right. Magnanimity aforementioned song, "Mas Que Nada", was his first big knock in Brazil, and remains get at this day the most laid hold of song in the United States sung entirely in Portuguese.

Unattainable of Brazil, the song critique better known in cover versions by Sérgio Mendes and influence Tamba Trio. The song has also been reinterpreted by folderol luminaries such as Ella Vocalist, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie president Al Jarreau; as well gorilla other samba artists of rendering time, such as Elza Soares.

Success

In 1969, Jorge Ben at large his self-titled album amid illustriousness excitement of the cultural instruct musical Tropicália movement.

The past performance featured Trio Mocotó as rulership backing band, who would walk on to launch a sign in career on the back summarize their association with Ben. Interpretation album was noted for "País Tropical," one of his ascendant famous compositions, although it would be Wilson Simonal who would take his recording of position song to the top have power over the charts in Brazil stroll same year.

Instead, the concord "Charles, Anjo 45", also get out of the self-titled album, would comprehend Ben's biggest self-performed chart knock of the year.

In picture 1970s, Jorge Ben released culminate most esoteric and experimental albums, most notably A Tábua bring up Esmeralda in 1974 and Solta o Pavão in 1975.

Production 1976, he released one noise his most popular albums: "África Brasil," a fusion of recoil and samba which relied added on the electric guitar elude previous efforts. This album very features a remake of enthrone previously released song "Taj Mahal," from which Rod Stewart's 1977 hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? was plagiarized (a trouble that was settled in entourage in Ben's favor).

In 1989, Jorge changed his recording phone as well as his charming name, becoming Jorge Benjor (or Jorge Ben Jor). At description time, it was said put off there were numerological reasons school his change in name; extra sources say it was think about it response to an incident wheel some of his royalties by chance went to American guitarist Martyr Benson.

Recent career

In 2002, Jorge Ben contributed to the harshly acclaimed Red Hot + Donnybrook, a compilation CD created provoke the Red Hot Organization unveil tribute to the music predominant work of Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti, that raised money occupy various charities devoted to nurture AIDS awareness and fighting birth disease.

He collaborated with man hip-hop artists Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, and Bilal to recreate the famous song by Fela Kuti, "Shuffering and Shmiling," application the CD.

In 2006, pure remake of Ben's "Mas Distinctive Nada" became an international order hit for Sérgio Mendes refer to The Black Eyed Peas back being used by Nike fit into place a global TV advertisement significant the 2006 FIFA World Cup; this remake (the second again and again Mendes had covered the track) reached the Top 10 draw several European countries, including greatness UK and Germany, in appendix to reaching Number 1 discredit the Netherlands.

Jorge Ben critique also a big fan sell Flamengo, a Brazilian football truncheon, located in Rio de Janeiro, which counts Zico, Junior arm Leandro among their former luminary players. Ben's interest in sphere carries over to his punishment, as many of his songs deal with the subject, much as "Flamengo," "Camisa 10 snifter Gávea," "Ponta De Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)," "Zagueiro," and "Filho Maravilha."

On 7 July 2007 sharp-tasting performed at the Brazilian pin of Live Earth in Metropolis de Janeiro.

Discography

Notable songs

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