Um projeto ambicioso, inovador e criativo que se tornou um marco na carreira musical de Peter Gabriel. Actually, he is considered one of the greatest exponents of the music of Pernambuco.Após dois bons, e irregulares, álbuns em que procurava seguir um caminho próprio e se afastar da sonoridade do Genesis, Peter Gabriel chegou ao ponto que tanto ansiava com o seu terceiro disco, também chamado “Peter Gabriel” – conhecido como “3” ou “Melt” – e lançado em 1980. Together, they participated of many festivals and, in that same years, recorded their first album: Alceu Valença & Geraldo Azevedo, also known as Quadrafônico.Īlong his career, Valença recorded more than 20 albums and travelled around many countries, such as Portugal, France and United States. He also played with Zé Ramalho and Elba Ramalho during this period. He started his musical career in 1968, with the group Underground Tamarineira Village, later known as Ave Sangria. In fact, in the early 1970s, the reason he had no time for a law career was that he had already launched into a musical direction.
However, he only followed a career in which for a matter of months. In 1970, Valença got his graduation degree on Laws. However, he only won his own guitar when he was 15. In this period, Valença get interested in some musical instruments, such as acoustic guitar and viola.
Some years later, his mother get sick and his family moved to Recife to live in his aunt's house. When he was 5 years old, he participated of a music contest, singing a song by Capiba. When he was young, he used to listen songs by Dalva de Oliveira, Orlando Silva, Sílvio Caldas etc. However, his aesthetic basis is genuinely Brazilian Northeastern music.Īlceu Valença was born in São Bento do Una, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. His music and his themes are intangible, universal and unlimited.
Alceu was able to utilize the electric guitar the electric bass, and lately even a synthesizer was added to his broad scope of musical instruments.īecause of that, Alceu was able to recreate Northeastern traditional music, like baião, coco, toada, maracatu, frevo, caboclinhos, embolada and repentes: all sung with a sometimes rock sometimes alternative sounding music background. One can find traces of maracatu, coco and "repentes de viola" (improvising fast-paced Brazilian folk music) in most of his songs. He is considered the most successful artist in achieving an aesthetic balance between traditional northeastern Brazilian music and a broad range of electronic sounds and effects from pop music. Alceu Valença (born Jin São Bento do Una, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, writer, performer, actor, and poet.Īlceu Valenca was born in countryside Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil.
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