Marcos Valle
Brazilian Singer/Songwriter By Jim AllenA vital, uncompromising Brazilian artist.
To chart the musical evolution of Brazilian singer/songwriter Marcos Valle is to follow the path of Brazilian pop history itself. He started out in the early ‘60s as a proponent of the homegrown bossa nova sound that was a worldwide rage at the time, and before long he was as much in demand as a writer for other artists as he was for his own recordings. In 1968, he hit his major crossover moment with the mod-bossa sound of Samba ’68, his first U.S. release. But by the start of the ‘70s, like so many other Brazilians who came out of bossa nova, Valle expanded his artistic scope. While it’s tempting to tag his early-‘70s output simply as Tropicalia, this strikingly fertile period on Valle’s work incorporated everything from orchestral suites to jazz and progressive rock. In subsequent decades, while many of his contemporaries sank into MOR blandness, Valle remained a vital, uncompromising artist, turning out a cool, classy blend of the styles he had explored earlier as well as experimenting with more modern, electronic-oriented touches and gaining new popularity in the European dance music scene. In 2010, after 47 years of recording, he released one of his most highly praised albums in many moons, Estatica.
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