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Baden Powell De Aquino Was Born In Varre-Sai In The State Of Rio De Janeiro Brazil. His Father A Scouting Enthusiast Named Him After Robert Baden-Powell. When He Was Three His Family Relocated To A Suburb In The City Of Rio De Janeiro. The New Surroundings Proved Profoundly Influential. His House Was A Stop For Popular Musicians During His Formative Years. He Soon Started Guitar Lessons With Jayme Florence A Famous Choro Guitarist In The 1940s. He Proved A Young Virtuoso Having Won Many Talent Competitions Before He Was A Teenager. At Age Fifteen He Was Already Playing Professionally Accompanying Singers And Bands In Various Styles. As A Youngster He Was Fascinated By Swing And Jazz But His Main Influences Were Firmly Rooted In The Brazilian Guitar Canon. In 1955 Powell Was Playing With The Steve Bernard Orquestra At The Boite Plaza A Nightclub Within The Plaza Hotel In Rio Where His Skill Got The Attention Of The Jazz Trio Playing Across The Lobby At The Plaza Bar. When Ed Lincoln Needed To Form A New Trio He Asked Powell To Join On Guitar To Become The Hotel Plaza Trio. Powell Brought In Luiz Marinho For Bass Duties As Well As A Fourth Member Of The "trio" Claudette Soares On Vocals. Powell Lincoln And Their Young Musician Friends Took Part In After-Hours Jam Sessions Gaining Notice In The Growing Brazilian Jazz Scene. 1 Powell Achieved Much Wider Fame In 1959 By Convincing Billy Blanco An Established Singer And Songwriter To Put Lyrics To One Of Powell's Compositions. The Result Was Called "Samba Triste" And Quickly Became Very Successful. It Has Been Covered By Many Artists Including Stan Getz And Charlie Byrd In Their Seminal LP Jazz Samba. In 1962 Powell Met The Poet-Diplomat Vinicius De Moraes And Began A Collaboration That Yielded Some True Classics Of 1960s Brazilian Music. Although Bossa Nova Was The Prevailing Sound Of The Times The Partnership Baden-Vinicius Wanted To Transcend The Then-Fashionable Sound By Syncretizing Afro-Brazilian Forms Such As Candomblé Umbanda And Capoeira With Rio De Janeiro's Samba Forms. The Most Enduring Result Is A Series Released As An LP In 1966 Under The Name "Os Afro-Sambas De Baden E Vinicius". During Those Years He Studied Advanced Harmony With Moacir Santos Released Recordings In The Brazilian Labels Elenco And Forma As Well As In The French Label Barclay And The German Label MPS/Saba Notably His 1966 Tristeza On Guitar Considered By Many To Be A High Point In His Career . In Addition He Was The House Guitarist For Elenco And Elis Regina's TV Show "O Fino Da Bossa". In 1968 He Partnered With Poet Paulo Cesar Pinheiro And Produced Another Series Of Afro-Brazilian Inspired Music Released In 1970 As "Os Cantores Da Lapinha". He Visited And Toured Europe Frequently In The 1960s Relocating Permanently To France In 1968. In The 1970s He Released Many Recordings With Different Labels In Europe And Brazil. His Star Dimmed Somewhat Owing To Health Problems And People's Changing Tastes. He Spent The 1980s In Semi-Retirement In France And Germany. Finally In The 1990s He And His Family Moved Back To Brazil Where He Continued To Record And Perform. Public Recognition Of His Work Came Around That Time In Brazil. By The End Of The 1990s He Converted To Evangelical Faith To Which He Credits Overcoming His Long Addictions To Alcohol And Tobacco. Nevertheless His Health Had Greatly Deteriorated After Many Years Of Abuse And He Fell Ill In 2000. Baden Powell Died Of Pneumonia Triggered By Diabetes On The 26th Of September 2000 In Rio De Janeiro. He Is The Father Of Pianist Philippe Baden Powell De Aquino And Guitarist Louis Marcel Powell De Aquino. Playing Style Baden Powell Decided At Age 19 To Stop Playing The Electric Guitar Preferring To Concentrate On The Classical Guitar For The Rest Of His Career. He Did Record A Series Of Albums With A Borrowed Steel-String Acoustic But That Is As Far As He Strayed From His Main Instrument In His Adulthood. An Analysis Of His Repertoire Reveals A Wide Range Of Interests. It Spanned All The Idioms Of Brazilian Popular Music Of The 20th Century Samba Bossa Nova Afro-Bahian Ritual Music Frevo Choro North Eastern Sertão Music Even European And Japanese Lullabies. Like Most Musicians Growing Up In The 1940s And 1950s He Was Deeply Influenced By Jazz Especially Bebop And Swing. He Covered Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight On Two Recordings And Jerome Kern's All The Things You Are On Three Occasions Including His First Solo Album . This Upbringing Is Reflected In His Playing Style Which Shows A Fusion Of Jazz Harmonies And Classical Guitar Technique With A Very Brazilian Right Hand I.E. The One Carrying The Rhythm On The Guitar . On Solo Pieces He Could Recall Tárrega Or Play Bach Pieces With Orthodox Ease. When Playing In A Group He Was Able To Accompany Singers With Quiet Mastery Or Let Loose And Play Street Samba In Sloppy "party" Style As If The Guitar Was Another Percussion Instrument. Like Monk He Was Fond Of The Minor Second Interval As A Way To "bend" The Tonality. However Because Of His Jazz Background He Would Rarely Physically Bend The String Preferring Instead To Play The Minor Second Using An Adjacent Open String. Students Of His Style Should Note This Preference For Chord Voicings That Feature Extensions On The Open Strings As A Way Of Punctuating Passages. Other Idioms To Watch For Are The Endless Variations In Rhythm Played By The Right Hand Always Within The Proper 2/4 Samba Meter As Well As His Tendency To Put His "signature" In A Fast Descending Scale With A Slower Ascending Arpeggio In The Relative Key. Another Common Device That He Used In His Recordings Consisted Of His Use Of Vocalise And Scat Singing Often In Unison With The Melody Line Especially When The Melody Was Sung On The Bass Strings Of The Guitar . His Influences According To His Testimony Were His First Teacher "Meira" Jayme Florence 1909-1982 Dilermando Reis 1916-1977 And Garoto Anibal Augusto Sardinha 1915-1955 . He Also Commented About Being Influenced By The Work Of Les Paul Lester William Polfus 1915- Django Reinhardt 1910-1953 And Jacques Loussier 1934- . 1 Http //www.Whatmusic.Com/info/productinfo.Php?menulevel Home&productid 174&returnurl Http //www.Whatmusic.Com/home/index.Php read less