Nelson Cândido Motta Filho (São Paulo

São Paulo

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, October 29, 1944) is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian journalist

Journalist

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, songwriter

Songwriter

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, writer, and record producer

Record producer

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He was part of the bossa nova

Bossa nova

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 movement, collaborating with Edu Lobo

Edu Lobo

Eduardo de Góes "Edu" Lobo is a Brazilian bossa nova singer, guitarist, and composer. He achieved fame in the 1960s as part of the bossa nova movement...

, 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:...

, Lulu Santos

Lulu Santos

Lulu Santos, stage name of Luiz Maurício Pragana dos Santos is a Brazilian singer and guitarist, considered one of the great names of Brazilian rock.- Career :...

, Rita Lee

Rita Lee

Rita Lee Jones Carvalho , simply known as Rita Lee, is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. Lee continues to be a popular figure in Brazilian entertainment, where she is also known for being an animal rights activist and a vegetarian...

, Djavan

Djavan

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 and others, and producer for several MPB

Música Popular Brasileira

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 artists, such as Elis Regina

Elis Regina

Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina was an important singer of Brazilian popular music. She became nationally renowned in 1965, after singing Arrastão in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest, and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record...

, Gal Costa

Gal Costa

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, 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...

 and others. He was Marisa Monte

Marisa Monte

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's first music producer in the late 1980s. Motta also produced early Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock

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 shows and wrote lyrics in collaboration with rock artists, such as Lulu Santos

Lulu Santos

Lulu Santos, stage name of Luiz Maurício Pragana dos Santos is a Brazilian singer and guitarist, considered one of the great names of Brazilian rock.- Career :...

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