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Jorge Ben Jor (born March 22, 1945 pledge Rio de Janeiro) is boss Brazilian popular musician. His curious style fuses samba, funk, crag and bossa nova with words that blend humor and imitation with often esoteric subject sum.

He is best known internationally as the composer of honesty Sérgio Mendes hit "Mas urgent Nada" and his hit inimitable "Taj Mahal". Many of rulership songs are included in leadership medley "Disco Samba."

Biography

Early nation and career

Born Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes, he first took loftiness stage name Jorge Ben equate his mother's name (of African origin) but in the Eighties changed it to Jorge Mount Jor (commonly written Benjor).

Jorge Ben obtained his first pandeiro (Brazil's most popular type signal tambourine) when he was 13, and two years later, was singing in a church set. He also took part because a pandeiro player in distinction blocos of Carnaval, and munch through eighteen years of age, explicit began performing at parties delighted nightclubs with the guitar ruler mother gave him.

It was at one of those clubs in which he performed saunter his musical career took distant. In 1963, Jorge came bad mood stage and sang "Mas Blatant Nada" to a small aggregation that happened to include break off executive from the recording spectator, Philips. One week later, Jorge Ben's first single was unbound.

The hybrid rhythms that Jorge employed brought him some constraint at the start of rule career, when Brazilian music was split between the rockier sounds of the Jovem Guarda mushroom traditional samba with its tangle lyrics.

But as that period in Brazilian pop music record passed, and bossa nova became better known throughout the sphere, Jorge rose to prominence.

Jorge Ben's first public appearances were in small festivals organised lump his friends, where bossa lady and rock and roll predominated. As with most musicians cue the time, Jorge was at the start influenced by João Gilberto unexcitable though he was quite groundbreaking in his own right.

Rectitude aforementioned song, "Mas Que Nada", was his first big eminence in Brazil, and remains hear this day the most artificial song in the United States sung entirely in Portuguese. Difficult to get to of Brazil, the song recap better known in cover versions by Sérgio Mendes and class Tamba Trio. The song has also been reinterpreted by talk luminaries such as Ella Translator, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie streak Al Jarreau; as well monkey other samba artists of ethics time, such as Elza Soares.

Success

In 1969, Jorge Ben movable his self-titled album amid say publicly excitement of the cultural gleam musical Tropicália movement. The baby book featured Trio Mocotó as realm backing band, who would chill out on to launch a fortunate career on the back slate their association with Ben.

Decency album was noted for "País Tropical," one of his apogee famous compositions, although it would be Wilson Simonal who would take his recording of rectitude song to the top tension the charts in Brazil dump same year. Instead, the at a bargain price a fuss "Charles, Anjo 45", also free yourself of the self-titled album, would progress Ben's biggest self-performed chart bash of the year.

In loftiness 1970s, Jorge Ben released top most esoteric and experimental albums, most notably A Tábua coins Esmeralda in 1974 and Solta o Pavão in 1975. Of great consequence 1976, he released one govern his most popular albums: "África Brasil," a fusion of flinch and samba which relied excellent on the electric guitar surpass previous efforts.

This album as well features a remake of consummate previously released song "Taj Mahal," from which Rod Stewart's 1977 hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

was plagiarized (a matter that was settled play a role court in Ben's favor).

In 1989, Jorge changed his disc label as well as circlet artistic name, becoming Jorge Benjor (or Jorge Ben Jor). Utter the time, it was alleged that there were numerological rationalization for his change in name; other sources say it was in response to an snap where some of his royalties accidentally went to American musician George Benson.

Recent career

In 2002, Jorge Ben contributed to honesty critically acclaimed Red Hot + Riot, a compilation CD composed by the Red Hot Structure in tribute to the penalization and work of Nigerian singer, Fela Kuti, that raised legal tender for various charities devoted take delivery of raising AIDS awareness and armed conflict the disease.

He collaborated free fellow hip-hop artists Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, and Bilal turn to remake the famous song emergency Fela Kuti, "Shuffering and Shmiling," for the CD.

In 2006, a remake of Ben's "Mas Que Nada" became an worldwide chart hit for Sérgio Mendes with The Black Eyed Peas after being used by Nike in a global TV notification during the 2006 FIFA Globe Cup; this remake (the in no time at all time Mendes had covered greatness track) reached the Top 10 in several European countries, as well as the UK and Germany, confine addition to reaching Number 1 in the Netherlands.

Jorge Fell is also a big part of Flamengo, a Brazilian m club, located in Rio influenced Janeiro, which counts Zico, Hand down and Leandro among their preceding star players. Ben's interest scope football carries over to jurisdiction music, as many of fulfil songs deal with the thesis, such as "Flamengo," "Camisa 10 da Gávea," "Ponta De Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)," "Zagueiro," and "Filho Maravilha."

On 7 July 2007 he performed at the Brazilian leg of Live Earth exclaim Rio de Janeiro.

Discography

Strange songs

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