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Eduardo Negrao

My passion for music started early, when I was 4 years old, I think. I remember my uncle Mario putting me on his lap and trying to show me the instruments in the orchestra: Look Du, this is a bassoon...how beautiful...now here come the French horns...notice how he repeats the theme only with the strings...look how the flute dialogs with the oboe...I didn�'t understand anything, but I loved music!

My mother liked Chico Buarque, Elton John and Nina Simone a lot. My father liked Bach, Beethoven and Vivaldi. I liked Os Saltimbancos, Pica Pau Amarelo and Toquinho and Vinicius.

At the age of six I got a walkman from my father and that was really important! From this moment on I started to listen to music non-stop, not even to sleep, I slept listening to music. Many times my mother would remove the earphones when I was already asleep. I remember loving Djavan, Milton and Stevie Wonder.

At the age of nine I saw Pepeu Gomes on TV playing his electric guitar in his silver outfit and beside him there was Baby, so beautiful! That�'s when I thought: I wanna do that too!

My first contact with an instrument was with a borrowed guitar from my cousin. I entered adolescence and there came Rock & Roll: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden... I suffered a little, but I learned by ear, and while my dad didn�'t give me a guitar I never let him alone. He was at peace on my 13th birthday!

I studied at Toque Music School, with teacher and guitar player Jazz Macdonald Paris, who tought me the first harmonic scales and progressions; that�'s where I first performed playing Chico Buarque's Joana Francesa with an adult-only band...it was a fiasco! If it had been for this performance, I would have become a great illustrator!

With this background and a little effort, I studied hard and learned by ear everything I liked: Deep Purple, Rush, Yes, Rainbow Saxon, Van Halen and all those bands that everybody likes when they are 15. There also were those that I liked but I couldn't learn: George Benson, John Maclaughlin, Paco de Lucia e Al di Meola. Things went really bad when the super guitar players came along: Malmsteem, Vinnie Moore, Steve Vai and many others; I had to start reading the tablatures because they were too fast for my ears! At this time, I had already started to compose my own songs. But I found something in it all that bored me a little: harmony, better yet, the lack of it!

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Edu puts himself out there so naturally that it’s hard to believe this is his first work, the compositions are light and commited to a music of rare intensity. Maur�-cio Gouvêa ��" International Magazine

Exellent arrangements, mature harmonies and consistent compositions are the glow of this beautiful CD. He knows how to “flow with the music”. Márcio Okayama ��" Guitar Player

Considered one of the best composers of the 2nd BDMG Instrumental Awards Milton Luiz ��" O Tempo

Owner of a melodic frasing, the guitar player and composer Edu Negrao really impresses us with his debuting work. Gustavo Martins ��" Guitar Player

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Primary Instrument

Guitar

Location

Sao Paulo

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

verdenovo

Unknown label
2009

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