Paulinho da Costa

Paulinho da Costa ( born May 31, 1948 in Rio de Janeiro / Brazil) is a Brazilian percussionist.

Life

His love for percussion, he discovered at the age of five years by trying out all the areas where you can make any rhythms. He has mastered numerous percussion instruments. Even as a boy he performed with various bands and has traveled around the world. In the United States arrived, he was warmly received with the new Brazilian rhythms, which he brought and is there since 1972 mainly as a studio musician with a wide variety of productions worked.

As a studio musician Paulinho has since for many of the greats of the music scene played Costa, such as Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau (All fly home, Tenderness ), Earth, Wind and Fire (I am, Faces ) Marcus Miller, Andy Narell, Sting, Madonna, Michael Jackson ( Off the wall, Thriller ), Diana Krall (Live in Paris). He continued to be involved in the production of film soundtracks such as The Color Purple, Saturday Night Fever and Footloose.