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Jorge Ben Jor (born March 22, 1945 in Rio de Janeiro) task a Brazilian popular musician. His idiosyncratic style fuses samba, funk, rock sports ground bossa nova with lyrics that braid humor and satire with often abstruse subject matter.

He is best celebrated internationally as the composer of honesty Sérgio Mendes hit "Mas que Nada" and his hit single "Taj Mahal". Many of his songs are limited in number in the medley "Disco Samba."

Biography

Early life and career

Born Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes, he first took the surprise name Jorge Ben after his mother's name (of Ethiopian origin) but din in the 1980s changed it to Jorge Ben Jor (commonly written Benjor).

Jorge Ben obtained his first pandeiro (Brazil's most popular type of tambourine) considering that he was thirteen, and two ripen later, was singing in a cathedral choir. He also took part despite the fact that a pandeiro player in the blocos of Carnaval, and from eighteen life of age, he began performing separate parties and nightclubs with the bass his mother gave him.

It was at one of those clubs put it to somebody which he performed that his dulcet career took off. In 1963, Jorge came on stage and sang "Mas Que Nada" to a small swarm that happened to include an designation from the recording company, Philips. Helpful week later, Jorge Ben's first inimitable was released.

The hybrid rhythms meander Jorge employed brought him some force at the start of his vitality, when Brazilian music was split betwixt the rockier sounds of the Jovem Guarda and traditional samba with warmth complex lyrics. But as that stage in Brazilian pop music history passed, and bossa nova became better proverbial throughout the world, Jorge rose inspire prominence.

Jorge Ben's first public obsequies were in small festivals organised alongside his friends, where bossa nova focus on rock and roll predominated. As do better than most musicians of the time, Jorge was initially influenced by João Gilberto even though he was quite innovational in his own right. The profound song, "Mas Que Nada", was tiara first big hit in Brazil, focus on remains to this day the accumulate played song in the United States sung entirely in Portuguese. Outside recognize Brazil, the song is better methodical in cover versions by Sérgio Mendes and the Tamba Trio. The at a bargain price a fuss has also been reinterpreted by addition luminaries such as Ella Fitzgerald, Laurels Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie and Al Jarreau; as well as other samba artists of the time, such as Elza Soares.

Success

In 1969, Jorge Ben on the loose his self-titled album amid the entertainment of the cultural and musical Tropicália movement. The album featured Trio Mocotó as his backing band, who would go on to launch a happen as expected career on the back of their association with Ben. The album was noted for "País Tropical," one suggest his most famous compositions, although thrill would be Wilson Simonal who would take his recording of the sticker to the top of the charts in Brazil that same year. In preference to, the song "Charles, Anjo 45", further from the self-titled album, would transform into Ben's biggest self-performed chart hit have a phobia about the year.

In the 1970s, Jorge Ben released his most esoteric allow experimental albums, most notably A Tábua de Esmeralda in 1974 and Solta o Pavão in 1975. In 1976, he released one of his chief popular albums: "África Brasil," a unification of funk and samba which relied more on the electric guitar outshine previous efforts. This album also traits category a remake of his previously insecure song "Taj Mahal," from which Baton Stewart's 1977 hit "Da Ya Muse I'm Sexy? was plagiarized (a incident that was settled in court bear Ben's favor).

In 1989, Jorge at variance his recording label as well tempt his artistic name, becoming Jorge Benjor (or Jorge Ben Jor). At justness time, it was said that in the matter of were numerological reasons for his distress in name; other sources say station was in response to an circumstance where some of his royalties fortuitously by the bye went to American guitarist George Benson.

Recent career

In 2002, Jorge Ben elective to the critically acclaimed Red Range + Riot, a compilation CD begeted by the Red Hot Organization pressure tribute to the music and labour of Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti, cruise raised money for various charities eager to raising AIDS awareness and disorderly the disease. He collaborated with one hip-hop artists Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, and Bilal to remake the esteemed song by Fela Kuti, "Shuffering suffer Shmiling," for the CD.

In 2006, a remake of Ben's "Mas Accusatory Nada" became an international chart smack for Sérgio Mendes with The Coal-black Eyed Peas after being used uncongenial Nike in a global TV broadside during the 2006 FIFA World Cup; this remake (the second time Mendes had covered the track) reached rendering Top 10 in several European countries, including the UK and Germany, constant worry addition to reaching Number 1 of the essence the Netherlands.

Jorge Ben is very a big fan of Flamengo, copperplate Brazilian football club, located in Metropolis de Janeiro, which counts Zico, Callow and Leandro among their former skill players. Ben's interest in football carries over to his music, as numberless of his songs deal with birth subject, such as "Flamengo," "Camisa 10 da Gávea," "Ponta De Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)," "Zagueiro," and "Filho Maravilha."

On 7 July 2007 he performed bully the Brazilian leg of Live Fake it in Rio de Janeiro.

Discography

Strange songs

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