Marcos Valle

If Marcos Valle had not been there, a piece of music history would have remained unwritten. He is one of the greatest artists of Brazilian popular music and one of the most important representatives of the second generation of bossa nova musicians. He wrote songs for world stars such as Toots Thielemans, Sergio Mendes, Bebel Gilberto, Dizzie Gillespie and many others. He himself was inspired by jazz, by Antonio Carlos Jobim and by composers such as Henri Mancini. In the 1990s, Marcos Valle's songs seeped into the European dance scene, where they quietly merged with the drum'n'bass fever of the time. A new genre had emerged: “drum'n'bossa”. Marcos Valle's songs are often simple, jazzy songs in which the words, the beat, the trumpet and the keyboards are carefully woven together to create a wonderful Brazilian sound. Golden beaches, palm trees and a deep blue sea await you at the Handelsbeurs!

Support: Philippe Baden Powell de Aquino

Philippe Baden Powell de Aquino is perhaps best known as the son of Baden Powell de Aquino, master guitarist and icon in Brazil and the bossa nova world. Philippe Baden Powell started taking piano lessons when he was seven and turned out to have just as much musical talent as his father. Since the age of fifteen, he has played both in Brazil and abroad. A wonderful Brazilian taste.