Baden Powell was one of the most gifted and influential guitarists of his generation, a true musical voyager who redefined every rule he came across. Having grown up with samba and choro, Powell soon mastered both styles before turning his hand to swing and jazz in order to blend these exciting new forms into the Brazilian repertoire he had been engaging with. By the early 60s he'd met the poet Vinicius de Moraes and the most fruitful period of his compositional career began, with Moraes penning the lyrics to many songs that aimed to go beyond the bossa nova milieu and into cross-genre sounds that included Afro-Brazilian forms like umbanda and candomblé.
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