Obrigado Brazil
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Obrigado Brazil is a music album
Music Album
Music album is the name of:* Music Album , a 1970s Canadian television series* Album, a collection of music tracks...

 by Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

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In this context "Obrigado" means "thank you" in Portuguese
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...

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Track listing

  1. "Cristal" – 02:49
  2. "Chega de Saudade" – 04:16
  3. "A Lenda Do Caboclo" – 03:10
  4. "Doce De Coco" – 05:12
  5. "Dança Brasileira" – 02:18
  6. "Apelo" – 04:57
  7. "Dança Negra" – 03:31
  8. "1 x 0 (Um a Zero)" – 02:40
  9. "Menino" – 05:36
  10. "Samambaia" – 05:19
  11. "Carinhoso" – 04:48
  12. "Alma Brasileira" – 05:05
  13. "O Amor Em Paz" – 03:52
  14. "Bodas De Prata & Quatro Cantos" – 09:48
  15. "Brasileirinho
    Brasileirinho (song)
    Brasileirinho is a 1947 choro composed by Waldir Azevedo. It is considered one of the most successful choros of all time, and it has been covered by many artists, like Carmen Miranda. The 2005 documentary Brasileirinho is named after it....

    " – 03:30
  16. "Salvador" – 04:53

Personnel

  • Yo-Yo Ma – Cello
  • Helio Alves
    Helio Alves
    Helio Alves is a jazz pianist and son of pianists. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts at 18 and studied at the Berklee College of Music. He stayed in Boston until age 24 when he moved to New York City on advice from a friend...

      – Piano
  • Odair Assad – Guitar
  • Sergio Assad
    Sergio Assad
    Sérgio Assad is a Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger who often performs with his brother in the guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad, commonly referred to as Assad Brothers or Duo Assad.-Biography:...

      – Guitar, Arranger
  • Cyro Baptista
    Cyro Baptista
    Cyro Baptista is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music....

      – Percussion
  • Paulinho Braga – Drums
  • Jose DaSilva – Percussion
  • Jose DeFaria – Percussion
  • Paquito D'Rivera
    Paquito D'Rivera
    Paquito D'Rivera is a Cuban alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. The winner of multiple Grammys and other awards, D'Rivera has lived in the United States since the early 1980s. He has worked in a variety of contexts, but is perhaps best known for playing Latin...

      – Clarinet
  • Egberto Gismonti
    Egberto Gismonti
    Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...

      – Flute, Guitar, Piano, Arranger
  • Romero Lubambo
    Romero Lubambo
    Romero Lubambo is a Brazilian jazz guitar player.Romero Lubambo started learning classic piano at a very early age...

      – Guitar, Cavaquinho
  • Cesar Camargo Mariano
    Cesar Camargo Mariano
    Cesar Camargo Mariano is a Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer and music producer. He is one of the most renowned instrumental artists to come out of his home country.-Biography:...

      – Piano
  • Nilson Matta – Bass
  • Rosa Passos
    Rosa Passos
    Rosa Passos is a Brazilian singer and guitarist born in Bahia.Passos began playing piano at age thirteen, but after listening to Dorival Caymmi and João Gilberto she abandoned the instrument to become a singer. In the late 1960s, Passos began appearing on television and at music festivals...

     – Guitar, Vocals
  • Kathryn Stott
    Kathryn Stott
    Kathryn Stott is a British classical pianist who performs as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Her specialities include the English and French classical repertoire, contemporary classical music and the tango...

      – Piano
  • Todd Whitelock – Engineer

Production

  • Dominik Blech – Engineer, Intern
  • Jorge Calandrelli
    Jorge Calandrelli
    Jorge Calandrelli is an Argentine composer, arranger and orchestrator.His truly ingenious arranging and composing techniques, especially his beautiful string writing, makes him very well recognized on many records of today's pop - jazz/ Jazz commercial record publications.Big record stars hired him...

      – Arranger, Producer
  • Stephen Danelian – Photography
  • Ruth DeSarno – A&R
  • Steven Epstein
    Steven Epstein (music producer)
    Steven Epstein, an American producer of classical music received a B.Sc. in Music education from Hofstra University in 1973.Over the years, Epstein has worked with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Plácido Domingo, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Bobby McFerrin,...

    – Producer
  • Michelle Errante – Product Manager
  • Gil Gilbert – Photography, Assistant
  • Phillip Huscher – Liner Notes
  • Janush Kawa – Photography
  • Richard King – Engineer
  • Laura Kszan – Editorial Director
  • Andreas Meyer – Assistant Engineer, Technical Supervisor
  • Christopher Ottaunick – Photography
  • Laraine Perri – Executive Producer
  • Peta Scriba – Assistant Engineer
  • Keith Shortreed – Assistant Engineer
  • Roxanne Slimak – Art Direction
  • Jason Spears – Assistant Engineer
  • Jason Stasium – Assistant Engineer
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