Vinícius de Moraes
Vinícius de Moraes was a poet and diplomat turned lyricist whose plainspoken, romantic verse gave bossa nova its emotional register, co-writing 'Garota de Ipanema' and dozens of other Jobim standards. His 1966 album with guitarist Baden Powell, Os Afro-Sambas, pushed further into Afro-Brazilian percussion and Candomblé-inflected melody, widening the musical vocabulary later generations of Brazilian pop artists have drawn on.
the sound in question
1966
BerimbauVinícius de Moraes
we haven’t charted Vinícius de Moraes yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.