Arnaldo Antunes
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Arnaldo Antunes is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs
. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first published in 1983. He is noted abroad for collaborations with Marisa Monte
.
. In 1978, he begins to study Portuguese language
and literature
at USP
.
, and he transferred schools to the PUC RJ
. However, he returned to São Paulo with his wife, Go, and formed the Banda Performática. Later on in 1982, the Titãs do Iê-Iê made their first performance and released their debut album Titãs
in 1984. They performed in Switzerland
, England
, the United States
, and Brazil. But by 1992 Antunes decided to leave Titãs, after more than a decade of partnership and seven albums.
As a solo artist, Arnaldo Antunes later released Ninguém (1995), O Silêncio (1996), Um Som (1998), Paradeiro (2001) and Saiba (Rosa Celeste/BMG 2004). He also released other albums at special projects, such as the O Corpo (1999), a specially produced soundtrack for Grupo Corpo, a dance company of Minas Gerais
, and the album Os Tribalistas
(EMI/Phonomotor 2002), a collaborative project with Marisa Monte
and Carlinhos Brown
.
His compositions have been used in several movies including Blue in the Face, directed by Wayne Wang
and Paul Auster
; Bicho de Sete Cabeças
, directed by Lais Bodanzki; Dois Perdidos Numa Noite Suja, adapted from a novel by Plinio Marcos and directed by José Joffily; and Benjamim, adapted from a novel by Chico Buarque
and directed by Monique Gardenberg.
Titãs
Titãs are a rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Their best-known line up is the one in the album Cabeça Dinossauro : Nando Reis , Branco Mello , Marcelo Fromer , Arnaldo Antunes , Tony Bellotto , Paulo Miklos , Charles Gavin and Sérgio Britto...
. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first published in 1983. He is noted abroad for collaborations with Marisa Monte
Marisa Monte
Marisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.- Biography :...
.
Childhood
Arnaldo was born on September 2, 1960, to Arnaldo Augusto Nora Antunes and Dora Leme Ferre. He was the fourth of seven children they had. In 1967, he entered Luís de Camões school and studied there until 1972. In the next year, he went to the PUC SP Laboratory School, where he gets interested in artistic languages and starts to write his firsts poems. In 1975 he enters Colégio Equipe (where most of Titãs' members studied), and begins to compose with his classmate Paulo MiklosPaulo Miklos
Paulo Roberto de Souza Miklos is a multi-instrumentalist, musician and actor from Brazil. He is best known for his works for the band Titãs, which he is a member since its beginning, in 1981. Singing and playing the harmonica and the sax are some of his most notable contributions for the band. As...
. In 1978, he begins to study Portuguese language
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
and literature
Portuguese literature
This is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of...
at USP
University of São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian university and one of the country's most prestigious...
.
Career with Titãs
Next year his family moved to Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, and he transferred schools to the PUC RJ
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
The Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro is a private and non-profit Catholic university, located in Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil...
. However, he returned to São Paulo with his wife, Go, and formed the Banda Performática. Later on in 1982, the Titãs do Iê-Iê made their first performance and released their debut album Titãs
Titãs (album)
Titãs is the debut album of Brazilian rock band Titãs. It is the only album to feature André Jung on drums. The album also features Pena Schmidt's production, polishing the edges to the vanishing clear-cut point and burying instruments over layers of synths and electronic drumming typical of the...
in 1984. They performed in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, and Brazil. But by 1992 Antunes decided to leave Titãs, after more than a decade of partnership and seven albums.
Solo career
In 1993 he released his debut CD Nome, putting together a multimedia project which associated poetry, music and computer animation (produced with the partnership of Celia Catunda, Kiko Mistrorigo and Zaba Moreau). The video "Nome" was exhibited in art venues and festivals in Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Spain (where it received a Jury recommendation at the Festival International de Video Cidade de Vigo 1995), Netherlands, Monaco, Uruguay, Cuba, Chile, Colombia and the US (receiving an honorable mention at the first annual New York Video Festival).As a solo artist, Arnaldo Antunes later released Ninguém (1995), O Silêncio (1996), Um Som (1998), Paradeiro (2001) and Saiba (Rosa Celeste/BMG 2004). He also released other albums at special projects, such as the O Corpo (1999), a specially produced soundtrack for Grupo Corpo, a dance company of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
, and the album Os Tribalistas
Os Tribalistas
Tribalistas is an album released in 2002 by brazilian musical trio Tribalistas, consisting of Marisa Monte, Arnaldo Antunes and Carlinhos Brown, as a one-off collaboration....
(EMI/Phonomotor 2002), a collaborative project with Marisa Monte
Marisa Monte
Marisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.- Biography :...
and Carlinhos Brown
Carlinhos Brown
Carlinhos Brown is a Brazilian musician from Salvador, Bahia. He was born in Candeal Pequeno, a small neighbourhood in the Brotas area of Salvador de Bahia...
.
His compositions have been used in several movies including Blue in the Face, directed by Wayne Wang
Wayne Wang
Wayne Wang is a Chinese American film director.-Biography:Wang was born and raised in Hong Kong, and named after his father's favorite movie star, John Wayne...
and Paul Auster
Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...
; Bicho de Sete Cabeças
Bicho de Sete Cabeças
Bicho de Sete Cabeças is a 2001 Brazilian drama film directed by Laís Bodanzky and written by Luiz Bolognesi based on the autobiographical book Canto dos Malditos by Austregésilo Carrano Bueno. The film was made with the partnership between the Brazilian producers Buriti Filmes, Dezenove Som e...
, directed by Lais Bodanzki; Dois Perdidos Numa Noite Suja, adapted from a novel by Plinio Marcos and directed by José Joffily; and Benjamim, adapted from a novel by Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
and directed by Monique Gardenberg.
Personal life
From 1980 to 1987, he was married to Go. Right after they broke up, he got married to Zaba Moreau, with whom he had four children: Rosa, born in 1988, Celeste, born in 1991, Brás, born in 1997, and Tomé, born in 2001.With Titãs
- TitãsTitãs (album)Titãs is the debut album of Brazilian rock band Titãs. It is the only album to feature André Jung on drums. The album also features Pena Schmidt's production, polishing the edges to the vanishing clear-cut point and burying instruments over layers of synths and electronic drumming typical of the...
(1984) - TelevisãoTelevisãoTelevisão is the second single by Titãs, released in 1985. The song criticizes television, how it has dominated people's life and how it presumably reduces people's intelligence, as expressed in the lines "A televisão me deixou burro, muito burro demais" .It would be later used as the credit music...
(1985) - Cabeça DinossauroCabeça Dinossauro- Covers :* Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura made a cover of "Polícia", present on the b-side of their Territory single, the digipak and Brazilian pressings of their 1993 album Chaos A.D. and the compilation Blood-Rooted)....
(1986) - Jesus não Tem Dentes no País dos BanguelasJesus Não Tem Dentes No País Dos BanguelasJesus não Tem Dentes no País dos Banguelas is the fourth studio album by Brazilian rock band Titãs...
(1987) - Õ Blésq BlomÕ Blésq BlomÕ Blésq Blom is the fifth studio album released by Brazilian rock band Titãs. The name of the album means "The first men who walked on the Earth" in the language created by Mauro and Quitéria, two repentistas from the state of Pernambuco. The language is a mixture of Portuguese, English, Italian...
(1989) - Tudo Ao Mesmo Tempo AgoraTudo Ao Mesmo Tempo AgoraTudo Ao Mesmo Tempo Agora is the sixth album released by Brazilian rock band Titãs, and the last one to feature Arnaldo Antunes on vocals and guitars...
(1991)
Solo
- Nome (1993)
- Ninguém (1995)
- O Silêncio (1996)
- Um Som (1998)
- (1999)
- O Corpo (2000)
- Paradeiro (2001)
- Saiba (2004)
- Qualquer (2006)
- Ao Vivo em Estúdio (2007)
- Iê Iê Iê (2009)
Guest appearances
- Golpe de Estado - Forçando a Barra (1988)
- Péricles Cavalcanti – Sobre as Ondas (1995)
- Various artists – O Triângulo Sem Bermudas (1996)
- Edgard Scandurra – Benzina (!996)
- Tom ZéTom ZéTom Zé is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil. After the peak of the Tropicália period, Zé went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when the musician and label head David Byrne discovered an album recorded...
and Zé Miguel Wisnik – Parabelo – Grupo Corpo (1997) - Tom Zé – Com Defeito de Fabricação (1998)
- Onda Sonora: Red Hot + LisbonOnda Sonora: Red Hot + LisbonOnda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon is the eleventh entry in the Red Hot Benefit Series of compilation albums. The album and related television special were both created by the Red Hot Organization , an international organization whose objective in this project is to raise AIDS awareness in the...
produced by the Red Hot OrganizationRed Hot OrganizationRed Hot Organization is a not-for-profit, 501 3, international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture.Since its inception in 1989, over 400 artists, producers and directors have contributed to over 15 compilation albums, related television programs and media events to raise...
(1998) - João DonatoJoão DonatoJoão Donato de Oliveira Neto is a Brazilian jazz and bossa nova pianist from Brazil, probably best known for his numerous albums as bandleader in the idiom...
- Songbook (1999) - Various Artists – Tributo a CazuzaCazuzaAgenor Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza was a Brazilian composer and singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music....
(1999) - Chico BuarqueChico BuarqueFrancisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
– Songbook (1999) - SubaSuba (musician)Mitar "Suba" Subotić a.k.a Rex Illusivi was a Serbian-born musician and composer who was set to become one of Brazil's most prominent producers when he died in November 1999.-Biography:Born Mitar Subotić, he obtained a university degree in his hometown from the University of Novi Sad,...
- São Paulo ConfessionsSão Paulo ConfessionsSão Paulo Confessions is an album by the Serbian-born musician Suba—his musical account of life in that humid, foggy, and manic megalopolis....
(2000) - Zé Miguel Wisnik – São Paulo Rio – (1000)
- Marisa MonteMarisa MonteMarisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.- Biography :...
- Memórias, Crônicas e Declarações de Amor (2000) - Walter Franco – Tutano (2001)
- Lula Queiroga – Aboiando a Vaca Mecânica (2001)
- Unknown artist – Só Um é Muito Só (2001)
- Glauco Matoso - Melopéia – sonetos musicados (2001)
- Cid Campos – No Lago do Olho (2001)
- Aguilar e Banda Performática - Aguilar e Banda Performática (2001)
- Various artists - Superfantástico – quando eu era pequeno (2002)
- Ortinho – Ilha do Destino (2002)
- João Donato – O Melhor de João Donato (2002)
- Aldo Brizzi – Brizzi do Brasil (2002)
- Various Artists - Maysa Esta Chama Que Não Vai Passar (2007)
- Various Artists - Pequeno Cidadão (2009)