Lenine (musician)
Lenine (actually Osvaldo Lenine Macedo Pimentel, born February 2, 1959 in Recife ) is a Brazilian musician and songwriter from Pernambuco.
In the early 1980s began Lenine his musical career, joining first the traditional music of the Brazilian Northeast with punk music. He played for example Maracatu on oil drums and shouted to African songs. Since then, Lenine experimented with many forms of music - yet he connects most modern electronic and traditional Brazilian music. The texts of his plays are quirky lyrics. His breakthrough came in 1997 with the CD O Dia Em Que Faremo Contato. The album Na pressão in 1999 his international breakthrough. He appeared in both 2000 (with its own group ) and 2013 ( with Martin Fondse Orchestra ) at the Moers Festival. " Like all great musicians in Brazil, he is primarily a singer / songwriter. However, it differs from all other colleagues for his restless intellectual curiosity that made him increasingly experimenting with electronics. "
Between 2002 and 2009 he won two five times the Latin Grammy for Best Brazilian Contemporary Album and Best Brazilian Song.
Dionne Warwick, Gilberto Gil and Daniela Mercury singing his pieces; Lenine himself plays as a guitarist with musicians like Marcos Suzano and Chico César.