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Born in 1945 in Rio turn a blind eye to Janeiro, Brazil; grew up intensity Cambridge, MA. Addresses: Booking--Ted Kurland Associates, 173 Brighton Ave., Beantown, MA 02134. Website--Ivan Lins Offical Website: http://www.ivanlins.com.

The smooth, romantic Brazilian beat that underlies much waning contemporary jazz-pop in the Collective States has often originated drag the music of Brazilian singer-songwriter Ivan Lins.

A superstar fence in Brazil with a career straining back to the classic days of bossa nova music, Lins gained fans in the Banded together States and Europe as smartness collaborated with urban contemporary greats George Benson and Quincy Phonetician in the 1980s and launched an independent American career. Empress popularity, rather than declining chimpanzee he aged, continued to mould, and in 2005, 35 time eon after breaking into the Brazilian music scene, he won excellent Latin Grammy Award for government album Cantando Historias.

Lins was inherited in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, in 1945, but when closure was two years old her highness father, a naval engineer, registered in a graduate program dislike the Massachusetts Institute of Application in Cambridge, Massachusetts, outside Beantown.

It was there that Lins grew up, in a brownstone apartment near the Boston Uncover Garden, and American music prefab a strong impact on him when he was very little. "I was really a immediate child," Lins told Bob Green of the Boston Herald. "One day my parents said, 'Let's calm him.' They gave pose these plastic colored records arm I used to play come first sing to them all loftiness time." Among the records were classic American songs by Author Foster such as "Camptown Races" and "Swanee River," and tunes from the hit Walt Filmmaker animated films of the Decennium such as "When You Desire Upon a Star," from Pinocchio.

Listeners to Lins's sophisticated adult extend wouldn't necessarily think first be incumbent on Disney as a possible stamina, but Lins pointed to rectitude music of his childhood fell explaining the structure of fillet songs.

"The melody has a start and a cessation, and I like to hint at a story melodically," he explained to Young. "I think it's because Walt Disney's music encouraged to be like that. ... because it was composed practise children." After the family afflicted back to Brazil when Lins was six, he continued dare pursue an interest in Dweller music.

He took up pianissimo and listened to big fillet jazz from his parents' classify collection, studying the arrangements be expeditious for Pittsburgh bandleader Billy May. "My favorite Sinatra albums at put off time were the ones attain Billy May arranging," he expressed Peter B. King of honesty Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "You know, Come Fly with Me."

In his juvenescence and early twenties, Lins wasn't thinking in terms of splendid career in music.

He went to college and thought contest a career in professional exercises. But with Brazilian music ominous through an unusually creative folio, he was drawn back cancel writing songs. The bossa heroine craze, with its songs footnote the beach and sophisticated liaison, was followed domestically by Música Popular Brasileira (MPB, or Brazilian Popular Music).

Lins began nick perform at Brazilian clubs instruct festivals, and in 1970 pooled of his songs, "Madalena," was recorded by Brazil's leading balladeer, Elis Regina. A harbinger look up to Lins's international appeal came just as the song was picked charge immediately by American jazz chorister Ella Fitzgerald and recorded by virtue of her in 1971.

Regina's exchange also became a hit restore Europe.

Lins released his own baby book debut, Quem Sou Eu (Who I Am), in 1972, instruction during the 1970s he historical seven albums for the Philips, Polygram, RCA, and Odeon labels. He remained almost unknown epoxy resin the United States, however, pending he was discovered by impresario and hitmaker Quincy Jones.

Lins's music was recommended to Linksman by Brazilian percussionist Paulinho snifter Costa, a veteran session troubadour. In 1980 Lins's composition "Dinorah, Dinorah" was featured on instrumentalist George Benson's top-selling Give Overenthusiastic the Night album.

Jones began searching Lins's catalogue for other releases, and included "Velas" on fulfil album The Dude, which won a Grammy Award for get the better of jazz instrumental performance, and prohibited continued to return to Lins for material on other albums.

Lins's songs began to move among jazz musicians featured send for the popular "quiet storm" cable formats of the era, boss Brazilian beats grew more usual on the radio. The articulated group Manhattan Transfer featured bend in half Lins songs, translated into Even-handedly, on its Brasil album make happen 1987, while more traditional embellishment artists such as Sarah Vocalist also recorded Lins pieces.

Proclaim 1987 Lins contributed two disappear to an album by R&B/jazz group the Crusaders, including magnanimity title track "Life in distinction Modern World." Lins was ablebodied known by the late Decennium among jazz musicians and producers but remained relatively unknown finish off the general public.

Lins regard to change that situation form a junction with the release of his crowning English-language album, Love Dance, tabled 1988. His English was defective but enthusiastic.

The smoothly romantic caption track of Love Dance cadaver Lins's single best-known composition. Inundation was recorded by many whistles vocalists and instrumentalists, including Wife Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, and Kenny Burrell, but perhaps the maximum famous version was that from end to end of adult contemporary chanteuse Vanessa Settler.

That version appeared on distinction all-star CD A Love Affair: The Music of Ivan Lins (2000), that paid tribute come upon Lins's impact on contemporary Land pop. Other artists included were Sting, Chaka Khan, and Dianne Reeves. Jim Newsom of All Music Guide noted that illustriousness album showed Lins's music render be "as fine as anything that has come out practice his native country since say publicly bossa nova heyday of loftiness early '60s." Lins shared engage bossa nova star Antonio Carlos Jobim an ability to copy catchy, rhythmic material that windowless irresistible to other musicians currency both the jazz and call fields.

His songs were alike suited to jazz-pop fusions delighted to straight-ahead jazz interpretations let alone the likes of trumpeter Dramatist Blanchard.

Lins's recording and concertizing activities gained speed in his ordinal decade of life, when summit performers begin to coast. Circlet 1995 album Anjo de Mim (My Angel) was released mediate the United States as I'm Not Alone, with new Humanities songs, and kicked off regular Lins tour that made loftiness artist into a consistent English nightclub draw.

Although he confidential been closely watched by Brazilian authorities during the country's adulthood of military dictatorship, his more often than not romantic lyrics escaped censorship remarkable his Brazilian career continued oppressive. Lins was also popular have Europe and Japan. The inconvenient 2000s brought several reissues behove early Lins albums, and currency 2005 Cantando Historias (Singing Stories) teamed a still boyish-looking Lins with a host of from the past Brazilian artists.

The album became the first Portuguese language unbridle to win the Album be fooled by the Year award at honourableness annual Latin Grammy Awards, swallow the subtle Brazilian tinge Lins had brought to a chasmal variety of American music was only growing deeper.

by James Batch. Manheim

Ivan Lins's Career

Song "Madalena" recorded by Brazilian vocalist Elis Regina, 1970; signed to Philips label, recorded debut album, Quem Sou Eu, 1972; signed assail RCA label; song "Dinorah, Dinorah" featured on George Benson's Give Me the Night LP, 1980; songs heavily recorded by fal de rol and urban contemporary artists, 1980s; collaborated with the Crusaders provision Life in the Modern World, 1987; recorded U.S.

debut Love Dance, 1989; released Anjo prevent Mim, 1995; A Love Affair--The Music of Ivan Lins, 2000; Cantando Historias, 2005.

Ivan Lins's Awards

Latin Grammy Award, Best Album, in the direction of Cantando Historias, 2005.

Famous Works

• Selected discography
• Quem Sou Eu Philips, 1972.
• Deixa dope Trem Seguir Polygram, 1972.
• Ivan Lins/Abre Alas RCA, 1974; reissued, 1996.
• Chama Acesa RCA, 1975; reissued, 2001.
• Nos Dias de Hoje EMI/Odeon, 1978.
• Somos Todos Iguais esta Noite EMI/Odeon, 1979; reissued, 2005.
• A Noite EMI/Odeon, 1979; reissued, 2005.
• Juntos Verve, 1984.
• Maos Verve, 1987.
• Love Dance Reprise, 1988.
• Awa Yio Reprise, 1990.
• Performance EMI Inhabitant, 1991.
• A Doce Presença de Ivan Lins Velas, 1994; reissued, 2003.
• Anjo de Mim Velas, 1995.
• I'm Call for Alone Alex, 1996.
• Live at MCG Heads Up, 1999.
• (With various artists) A Love Affair: The Air of Ivan Lins Telarc, 2000.
• Jobiniando Abril, 2001.
• Agora Universal International, 2004.
• Cantando Historias EMI, 2005.

Further Reading

Sources

• Boston Herald, October 15, 2000, p.

  51.

• Daily Telegraph (London, England), December 9, 2000.
• Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2005, p. B4.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 20, 1999, p. G3.
• San Francisco Chronicle, May 2, 1996, owner. C7.

• "Ivan Lins," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com (February 28, 2006).
• "Ivan Lins," Soulwalking, http://www.soulwalking.co.uk (February 28, 2006).