BAM presents Brazilian superstar Marisa Monte in concert, May 1 & 2
SAMBA NOISE Marisa Monte With special guests Arto Lindsay, Seu Jorge, and more TBA
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave) May 1 & 2 at 8pm Tickets start at $35
April 8, 2015/Brooklyn, NY—Renowned Brazilian singer/songwriter Marisa Monte makes her BAM debut with two nights of contemporary Brazilian popular music in a show specifically conceived for the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. The performances feature Monte’s hand-picked band and guest artists.
Praised by The New York Times as possessing “one of the most exquisite voices in Brazilian music,” Marisa Monte has been the benchmark for excellence among female singers in Brazil since she burst upon the scene in 1987. As she approaches the 30-year mark of her career, she still commands the same admiration and prestige that greeted her stunning debut. Her 12 CDs and seven DVDs have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and garnered 11 Latin Grammy Award nominations (winning four) and eight Video Music Brazil awards.
For her BAM debut, she will perform with artists that are closely associated with her, including American producer/composer Arto Lindsay, Brazilian singer/songwriter/actor Seu Jorge, and others to be announced.
About the Artists Born in Rio de Janeiro, the home of samba, Marisa Monte honed her singing skills with operatic training in in Italy. Her work embraces the traditions of MPB (música popular brasileira) and samba within a pop format that is modern and sophisticated. Aside from being a talented composer—she recorded her own work starting with her second album, Mais (EMI-Odeon, 1991), produced by Arto Lindsay—Monte is considered one of the most versatile performers in Brazil. Her voice is equally suited to samba, rock, and tango.
Immediately recognized as the greatest Brazilian female singer of her generation from the moment she emerged on the scene on the show Tudo Veludo (1987), followed two years later by the live album MM (EMI Music, 1989), Monte has always known how to renew herself after each album and each performance. She has masterfully managed her career entirely independently of market pressure and tends to leave intervals between the launch of an album and concert tours so that she can calmly work on the aesthetic concept of each endeavor.
She has recorded and/or performed live with the greatest names in Brazilian music. Among them are the samba icon Paulinho da Viola and the 1960s MPB movement idol Gilberto Gil. She formed Tribalistas with Arnaldo Antunes and Carlinhos Brown. Their eponymous album in 2002 sold three million copies worldwide and raised the artist’s visibility in the pop world.
With more than 10 million albums sold worldwide, Marisa Monte is one of the voices most identified with Brazil on the world music map. It is no coincidence that in August 2012 the artist represented Brazil, along with other high-profile Brazilian personalities, at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics, singing the Aria (Cantilena) from Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5, one of the best-known works by Rio-born composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Arto Lindsay has stood at the intersection of music and art for more than four decades. As a member of DNA, he contributed to the foundation of the No Wave art scene. As bandleader for the Ambitious Lovers he developed an intensely subversive pop music, a hybrid of American and Brazilian styles. Throughout his career, Lindsay has collaborated with both visual and musical artists, including Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Matthew Barney, Caetano Veloso, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. He has been involved with carnival in Brazil for many years and began creating parades in 2004.
Seu Jorge (née Jorge Mário da Silva) made his first mark as a professional musician in 1998— as a member of band Farofa Carioca. In 2001 he released his first solo album, Samba Esporte Fino. He won the APCA Prize (Saõ Paulo Art Critics Association) for best singer of the year two years running (2003 and 2004). In September 2004 he released CRU in France (through the Naïve label) and in England, winning rave reviews from French and English critics including Rolling Stone, Elle France, and Vogue France. He was hailed as a major new voice of Brazilian music and was invited by BBC to sing alongside the Black Eye Peas and Foo Fighters in Later...with Jools Holland. He also enjoys an active acting career, having played the role of Knockout Ned in the acclaimed film City of God (2002) and the role of Pelé dos Santos in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, for which he provided much of the soundtrack in the form of Portuguese-language cover versions of David Bowie classics.
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Credits Programming in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House is supported and endowed by The Howard Gilman Foundation.
Your tax dollars make BAM programs possible through funding from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. The BAM facilities are owned by the City of New York and benefit from public funds provided through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from Mayor Bill de Blasio; the New York City Council including Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Finance Committee Chair Julissa Ferreras, Cultural Affairs Committee Chair Jimmy Van Bramer, the Brooklyn Delegation of the Council, and Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo; and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. BAM would like to thank the Brooklyn Delegations of the New York State Assembly, Joseph R. Lentol, Delegation Leader; and New York Senate, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Delegation Leader.
General Information BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, and BAMcafé are located in the Peter Jay Sharp building at 30 Lafayette Avenue (between St Felix Street and Ashland Place) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM Harvey Theater is located two blocks from the main building at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and Rockwell Places). Both locations house Greenlight Bookstore at BAM kiosks. BAM Fisher, located at 321 Ashland Place, is the newest addition to the BAM campus and houses the Judith and Alan Fishman Space and Rita K. Hillman Studio. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn’s only movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. BAMcafé, operated by Great Performances, offers a dinner menu prior to BAM Howard Gilman Opera House evening performances. BAMcafé also features an eclectic mix of live music for BAMcafé Live on Friday and Saturday nights with a bar menu available starting at 6pm.
Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, Q, B to Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center (2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St for Harvey Theater) D, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street; C to Lafayette Avenue Train: Long Island Railroad to Atlantic Terminal – Barclays Center Bus: B25, B26, B41, B45, B52, B63, B67 all stop within three blocks of BAM Car: Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM
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