Brown, Carlinhos

LC control no.	no 98111337
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Brown, Carlinhos *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Freitas, Antônio Carlos Santos de De Freitas, Antônio Carlos Santos Santos de Freitas, Antônio Carlos
Associated country	Brazil
Birth date	1963
Place of birth	Salvador (Brazil)
Affiliation	Timbalada (Musical group)
Profession or occupation	Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Singers
Found in	Alfagamabetízado [SR] p1996: label (Carlinhos Brown) insert (arranger, guitar, percussion, vocals) All music guide WWW site, Oct. 21, 2005 (Carlinhos Brown; b. Antônio Carlos Santos de Freitas; percussionist, composer, and vocalist from Bahia) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brown, Carlinhos; Antonio Carlos Santos de Freitas; James Brown; composer, arranger, Afro-Brazilian musician, singer; born 1963 in Salvador, state of Bahia, Brazil; received early training from a local percussionist known as Pintado de Bongó; inspired by African American Soul Music of the 1970s, adopted a stage name James Brown; played percussion for Bahian pop celebrities such as Luiz Caldas, Moraes Moreira, and Caetano Veloso, whose recording of Brown's tune "Meia-lua inteira" achieved mass popularity (1980s); collaborated with Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter on Bahia Black: Ritual Beating System; colaborated with Sérgio Mendes on his Grammy Award-winning Brasileiro; worked with Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura on Roots (1990s); founded Timbalada, the percussion-based pop group (1990s); recorded his first CD, Alfagamabetizado, an aesthetically and technically superb fusion of Afro-Bahian percussion, northeastern folk, and international pop (1996))