Biography
Celso Adolfo (São Domingos do Prata, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, born September 9, 1952) is a Brazilian musician, singer-songwriter.
Celso Adolfo started his career in 1983 with the release of his first album, the LP Coração Brasileiro, produced by one of the main Brazilian legendary composer and singer Milton Nascimento, who recorded "Coração Brasileiro" on his album Anima. In the same year, Elba Ramalho, a northern star singer from Brazil, made a record and a concert of great repercussion with the same “Coração Brasileiro”. The following year, she recorded “Azedo e Mascavo", also by Celso Adolfo, arranged by César Camargo Mariano & Celso Adolfo and produced by Mazolla, in Rio de Janeiro.
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He is a composer who is praised by critics and gaining increasing exposure. Besides the huge success of "Coração Brasileiro", Adolfo's "Minueto" was included in TV Globo's soap opera Fera Ferida. In October 2000, he toured Europe. In Denmark, he had ten of his compositions presented in a show and recorded by students of the Copenhagen Conservatory. He recorded five albums from 1983 to 1998.
Along his career, Celso Adolfo has released a total of 8 studio albums between 1983 and 2008, including 2 live records mentioned above recorded in Europe & Scandinavia between 1999-2000, as well as 5 special edition albums between 1998-1999.
Besides the album “Coração Brasileiro”, there are other outstanding songs, such as “ Nós Dois”, which deserved numerous recordings, among them that of Tadeu Franco. “Brasil, Nome de Vegetal” had the special participation of Milton Nascimento. Among Celso Adolfo's albums, there are also titles such as “Anjo Torto”, “Festa do Padroeiro” and “Paixão Atleticana”. He still has partnerships with Juarez Moreira and Yuri Popoff.
Celso Adolfo also took part on a series of special side projects as:
- “Coffee with Milk” Project - SESC Pompéia - São Paulo. (1999)
- Denmark – Music workshops at the RMS (Rythmic Music Conservatory), in Copenhagen, and concerts in the capital and countryside of the country. (2000)
- Pixinguinha Project (FUNART) – Celso Adolfo, Jane Duboc and Maurício Carriglio. Rio de Janeiro (Rio das Ostras and Rio de Janeiro), Roraima (Rio Branco), Amazônia (Manaus), Pará (Belém) and *Maranhão (São Luis) (2006)
- Music at the Estrada Real Circuit - Series of meetings promoted by UFMG and FIEMG. (2007)
Giramundo work:
In 1992, he worked in partnership with Álvaro Apocalypse, founder of Grupo Giramundo - Teatro de Bonecos, a prolific Brazilian puppet theater group headquartered in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. He composed the soundtrack and joined the performances of the play "Tiradentes, a history of marionettes and puppets", written and directed by Álvaro Apocalypse and edited by Giramundo.
Celso Adolfo received the Canta Brazil Award in New York, conceived by radio producer Liggia Canjani, in a gala night at the Manhattan Center.
With the arrival of the pandemic, Celso Adolfo created the project "Discografia", which consisted of a series of nine lives, each dedicated to an album that he recorded throughout his career, presented monthly, with comments about each album. When casting this panoramic look over his phonographic trajectory, he was taken by the desire to make a compilation.
During the 2020-2021 pandemics, Celso unfolded on several fronts. In addition to the series of lives of the project "Discografia" and the production of the album "Voz e violão", he has embarked on a composition process, which will result in a new album, which is not yet scheduled for release, but already has a name: "Prateano", the ethnical name given to those born in São Domingos do Prata, his hometown.
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