Johnny Alf

Johnny Alf (actually Alfredo José da Silva, born May 19, 1929 in Rio de Janeiro, † March 4, 2010 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian musician (piano, vocals) of the Bossa Nova.

Life and work

Alf learned piano as a child game and came through the music of George Gershwin and Cole Porter to jazz. As a teenager, he began to compose songs in which he later the Samba Beat merged with popular jazz and swing. Through the connection with the singer Dick Farney and the Jazz Journalists Jose Dominguez Goes Raffaelli he was engaged in a nightclub in Copacabana. He then stepped on the Plaza, the birthplace of Bossa Nova. Throughout his career he worked with many Brazilian musicians such as Luís Chaves, Sérgio Mendes, Luís Carlos vinhas and Leandro Braga. 1952 appeared his first single; be published in 1955 Shellac album for Copacabana Brasil is considered by musicologists as the first bossa nova album. The mid- 1960s he moved to Sao Paulo, where he taught at a music conservatory. Among his most famous titles include Eu ea Brisa, Ilusão à Toa, O que é Amar and Céu e Mar

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Singing Copacabana (Rio de Janeiro) Discogs
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