Djavan
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Djavan is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, (born 27 January 1949, in Alagoas
Alagoas
Alagoas is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco ; Sergipe ; Bahia ; and the Atlantic Ocean . It occupies an area of 27,767 km², being slightly larger than Haiti...

, Brazil) Djavan combines traditional Brazilian rhythms with popular music drawn from the Americas, Europe and Africa. He can arguably be categorized in any of the following musical genres: Música Popular Brasileira
Música Popular Brasileira
Música Popular Brasileira or MPB designates a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. It is not a discrete genre but rather a constellation that combines original songwriting and updated versions of traditional Brazilian urban music styles like samba and samba-canção with contemporary...

 (Brazilian pop), samba
Samba
Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...

, or Latin dance.

Biography

Born into a poor family in Maceió
Maceió
Maceió is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state Alagoas, Brazil. The name "maceió" is of Indian origin, and designates the natural spontaneously courses of water which flow out of the soil...

 (capital of Alagoas
Alagoas
Alagoas is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco ; Sergipe ; Bahia ; and the Atlantic Ocean . It occupies an area of 27,767 km², being slightly larger than Haiti...

, Northeastern Brazil), Djavan formed the group Luz, Som, Dimensão (LSD – "Light, Sound, Dimension"), playing Beatles' singles. In 1973, Djavan moved to Rio de Janeiro
Rio 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 started singing in local nightclubs. After competing in several festivals, he gained attention and recorded the album A Voz, o Violão e a Arte de Djavan in 1976. The album included the song "Flor de Lis," which became one of his most memorable hits. Albums that followed included his other musical influence, African music, and additional hits followed, such as "Açaí", "Sina," and "Samurai," which featured Stevie Wonder's harmonica. His best known compositions are: "Meu Bem Querer," "Oceano," "Se...," "Faltando um Pedaço," "Esquinas," and "Serrado".

Djavan's compositions have been recorded by Al Jarreau
Al Jarreau
Alwin "Al" Lopez Jarreau is a seven-time Grammy Award winning jazz singer.- Background :Jarreau was born in Milwaukee, the fifth of six children. His web site refers to Reservoir, Inc., the name of the street where he lived. His father was a Seventh-Day Adventist Church minister and singer, and...

, Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae
Carmen Mercedes McRae was an American jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable...

, The Manhattan Transfer
The Manhattan Transfer
The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal music group. There have been two manifestations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only person to be part of both...

, Loredana Bertè
Loredana Bertè
Loredana Bertè is an Italian singer. In her long career she has worked with some of the best Italian songwriters such as Enrico Ruggeri, Pino Daniele, Ivano Fossati, Mario Lavezzi, Enzo Jannacci and Mango, among others. She has experimented with different genres, from rock to reggae, from funk to...

, Eliane Elias
Eliane Elias
Eliane Elias is a Brazilian jazz pianist, arranger, vocalist and songwriter.-Biography:...

, Lee Ritenour
Lee Ritenour
Lee Mack Ritenour is an American jazz guitarist who has recorded over 42 albums, appeared on over 3000 sessions, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976. One of his most popular songs was the smash hit, “Is It You” in 1981. Ritenour is considered to be a...

; and in Brazil by Gal Costa
Gal Costa
Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...

, Dori Caymmi
Dori Caymmi
Dorival Tostes Caymmi is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and producer who is a two-time Grammy Award winner .-Biography:...

 and Nana Caymmi
Nana Caymmi
Nana Caymmi is a Brazilian singer.Caymmi was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of Dorival Caymmi and Stella Maris. Her first appearance on record was on her father's album Acalanto. She married Venezuelan doctor Gilberto Aponte Paoli and moved there in 1959. She and her husband divorced in...

 (son and daughter of Dorival Caymmi
Dorival Caymmi
Dorival Caymmi was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years beginning in 1933...

), Lenine, João Bosco
João Bosco
João Bosco de Freitas Mucci, better known as João Bosco is a noted Brazilian singer-songwriter with a distinctive style as a guitarist...

, Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...

, Daniela Mercury
Daniela Mercury
Daniela Mercury , is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian axé, samba-reggae and MPB singer, songwriter and record producer. Since her breakthrough, Mercury has become one of the best known Brazilian female singers, selling over 20 million albums worldwide...

, Ney Matogrosso
Ney Matogrosso
Ney de Sousa Pereira, known as Ney Matogrosso is a Brazilian singer who is distinguished for his uncommon sopranino voice.-Biography:...

, Dominguinhos
Dominguinhos
Dominguinhos is a Brazilian composer and singer.He has performed with musicians such as Luiz Gonzaga, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa , Zé Ramalho, Toquinho, and Maria Bethânia. Some of his hits were recorded by Bethânia, Gil, Chico Buarque, Elba Ramalho, and Fagner...

, Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...

, Maria Bethânia
Maria Bethânia
Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso , better known as Maria Bethânia , is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião"...

, and other artists.
The 1988, Epic Records single, "Stephen's Kingdom," featured a guest appearance from Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

.

In 1998, Djavan contributed "Dukeles" to the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon
Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon
Onda 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 Organization
Red Hot Organization
Red 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...

.

In 1999, his live concert double-volume album, Ao Vivo, sold 1.2 million copies and the song, "Acelerou" became the Brazilian Song of the Year at the 2000 Latin Grammy Awards
Latin Grammy Awards
A Latin Grammy Award is an accolade by the Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. Unlike the regular Grammy Award which primarily honors music produced in the United States, the Latin Grammy honors works produced anywhere around the...

.

Discography

  • 1976 A Voz, O Violão, A Música de Djavan
    A Voz, O Violão, A Música de Djavan
    Djavan is the first album by Brazilian singer and songwriter Djavan, was released in 1976...

    , Som Livre LP, CD
  • 1978 Djavan, EMI/Odeon LP, CD
  • 1980 Alumbramento
    Alumbramento
    Alumbramento is the third album by Brazilian singer and composer Djavan. The album features some of his greatest hits, like "Meu Bem Querer", "Lambada de Serpente" e "Tem Boi Na Linha"....

    , EMI/Odeon LP, CD
  • 1981 Seduzir, EMI/Odeon LP, CD
  • 1982 Luz, Sony Music LP, CD
  • 1983 Para Viver Um Grande Amor, (film soundtrack), CBS, LP
  • 1984 Lilás
    Lilás
    Lilás is the sixth album of singer and songwriter Brazilian Djavan released in 1984-Track listing:all tracks are of composition of Djavan#"Lilás" - 4:43#"Infinito" - 5:19#"Esquinas" - 5:31#"Transe" - 4:54#"Obi" - 4:44#"Miragem" - 3:54...

    , CBS, LP, CD
  • 1986 Meu Lado, CBS LP, CD
  • 1986 Brazilian Knights and a Lady (with Ivan Lins and Patti Austin), VHS
  • 1987 Não é Azul Mas é Mar
    Não é Azul Mas é Mar
    Não é Azul, Mas é Mar is an album by musician, singer and composer Djavan released in 1987 by Sony Records. Recorded in Los Angeles in the United States, was sold in Brazil, United States, Japan and some European countries...

    , CBS, LP, CD
  • 1987 Bird of Paradise, Columbia, CD
  • 1989 Djavan Puzzle of Hearts, CBS CD
  • 1992 Coisa de Acender
    Coisa de Acender
    Coisa de Acender is a 1992 album of the Brazilian singer and songwriter Djavan released by Sony Music.Praised by critics and musicians, the album features to be more pop than the previous ones...

    , Sony Music, CD
  • 1994 Novena, Sony Music, CD
  • 1996 Malásia
    Malásia
    Malásia is the twelfth album by Brazilian singer and songwriter Djavan released in 1996.The album opens with the song "O Que foi My Love?", a jazz accelerated ending in the form of blues; "Sêca", which talks about the drought in northeastern jungle; "Nem Um Dia" biggest hit of the album on the...

    , Sony Music, CD
  • 1997 Songbook Djavan (3 volume set), Lumiar Discos, CD
  • 1998 Bicho Solto O XIII, Sony Music, CD
  • 1999 Ao Vivo (2-volume live concert set), Epic/Sony Music, CD, DVD
  • 2001 Milagreiro, Epic/Sony Music, CD
  • 2004 Vaidade, Luanda Records, CD
  • 2005 Na Pista, Etc., Luanda Records, CD
  • 2007 Matizes
    Matizes
    Matizes is a album of singer and songwriter Brazilian Djavan, released in 2007.-Track listing:#Joaninha - 5:35#Azedo e Amargo - 4:41#Mea-Culpa - 4:04#Imposto - 4:16...

    , Luanda Records, CD
  • 2010 Ária, Luanda Records, CD

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