Antonio Carlos Jobim's Life

Jobim began playing guitar. At 14 years his stepfather, Celso Fleet Person, led him to study piano with Hans Joachim Koellreutter. Also studied flute, harmony, orchestration and composition, with the teachers Lucia Branco, Thomas Teran, Alceu Bochino, Paulo Silva, Chinkievski and Leo Peracchi. The teenager began to be prepared for the long and creative way of composer, arranger, performer and producer. Wanted to study architecture, but music was his calling and led to higher abandoned this career. At the piano or the guitar tone drank over its entire life, the source of the old guard of MPB, drawing on Chiquinha Gonzaga, Ernesto Nazatreth, Sinha, Ary Barroso, Dorival Caymmi and Pixinhinha.

At the beginning of their career worked as a pianist in bars and nightclubs Rio, going after the record for Continental, where the staff transcribed for the melodies of composers who did not know music and arrangements for the recordings. In 1953, he had his first songs recorded by Sinter:

Uncertainty, sung by Mauricy Moura, launched in April 1953, Thinking of You and a week ago, the voice of Erman Son, launched in June of that year.

In 1954, earned her first success - Teresa da Praia, in partnership with Billy Blanco, read by Dick Farney and Lucio Alves. In that year, also in partnership with Billy Blanco, composed the Symphony of Rio dejaneiro. At that time had as partners: Dolores Duran, Luis Bonfá, Marino Pinto, and more consistently, Newton Mendonca, who has been with the Night, Meditation, Desafinado, Samba just a note and others.

From the recording of Desafinado, by Joao Gilberto in 1958, began to set up the movement Bossa Nova, which was to become known internationally. Tom Jobim was a great responsibility to give the international scope of Brazilian music.

In 1956, Tom met Vinicius de Moraes, who invited for songs to play Orfeu da Conceicao, when then wrote for an orchestra with over 80 instruments. The play was mounted with scenes of Niemeyer, in the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, and recording the songs - including If everyone were like you - was released on LP by the Odeon. This was the beginning of one of the most fruitful partnerships of the MPB. The dual tone / NM has become known around the world because of the success of the film Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus and French based on the play Orfeu da Conceicao. The film received the Golden Palm of the Cannes Film Festival in 1959 and the Academy Award for best foreign film in Hollywood, USA.

From 1956 to 1958, held the post of Artistic Director of Odeon Label. Also in 1958, Elizete Cardoso, accompanied by guitar and orchestra of John Gilberto, he recorded the LP Song of Love Gravy, with their songs and deVinícius, among them No more Saudade - This LP launched by Joao Gilberto in 1959 - is considered the point of departing from Movement Bossa Nova.

In 1960, at the invitation of President Juscelino Kubitschek, wrote his Symphony of the Dawn, in partnership with Vinicius de Moraes, who celebrated the inauguration of Brasilia. At that time also composed several songs with Alysio de Oliveira, who was hit on recordings of SIMA Telles, as Dindo, and Other Useless Landscape. In 1962, under the sponsorship of the Foreign Ministry, traveled to the U.S. with other members of the so-called Group Bossa Nova, featuring in the Festival of Bossa Nova's Carnegie Hall in New York.

Shortly before that trip, Vinicius de Moraes composed with the greatest success of his career: "The Girl From lpanema, which has more than 200 recordings throughout the world. This song has received from IMG in 1986, the "Millionaired Songs - songs that were to air more than a million times. Also in 1962, Elanco LPJoão the interpretation of Gilberto with Joao Gilberto and arranged by Tom Jobim, who was nominated for a Grammy from the National Academy of Sciences Reording Arts in the category: Best Background Arrangment.

In 1963, the U.S., he recorded two discs: one on piano, accompanied by orchestra, entitled Antonio Carlos Jobim, the composer of Desafinado plays and another with Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto and Milton Banana. The year 1965 became the almost-full in California, taking part of television programs with Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. In that same year boom in the U.S., PLO The Wonderful Worlof Antonio Carlos Jobim, Nelson Riddle and also with the certain Mr. Jobim, with arrangements by Claus Ogerman.

In 1967, at the invitation of Frank Sinatra, he traveled back to the United States for the recording of the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, whose repertoire of ten songs includes seven compositions of Tom. This LP was nominated for a Grammy from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, as album of the year. Also in 1967 the LP is released Wave. In 1968 he won the first place in the International Festival of Song Ill, promoted by TV Globo of Rio de Janeiro, with the music Sabiá, in partnership with Chico Buarque and interpreted by Cynara and Cybele.

During the decade of seventy continued writing and composing, including for the film (The Adventureus, Chronic Killed in House, Time of the Sea). Among the individual discs of the decade are The Adventurers, and Tide Stone Flower (1970), matita Pere (1973) and Urubu (1976). Among the collaborations stand out Sinatra & Company (1971) and Elis and Tom (1974). They are the successes of that period: Aguas de Mar, Olha Maria, rain in Roseira, matita Pere, Ugia so.

In 1980, the LP launches Earth Brazil, with arrangements by Claus Ogerman, a double album bringing together the biggest hits of his career. In 1982, was blessed with the Shell Prize for music, which is intended to honor names that have contributed decisively to the exaltation of Brazilian music, both popular and erudite.

Still actively composing, including for film and TV. It was in the 80s the soundtracks of films

Gabriela (1983), by Bruno Barreto and To Live a Great Love (1983), de Miguel Farias, and waltz Luiza, theme song of the novel Brilliant, daTV Globe. In 1984, is the Wiener Konzerthausgesellechaft, playing with the ORF Sinfonieta in Vienna and in the same year, so the New Banda with the musicians Paulo Jobim, Danilo Caymmi, Sebastião Neto, Jacques Morelenbaum, Paulo Braga and the singers Ana Jobim, Elizabeth Jobim, Paula Morelenbaum, MaúchaAdnet and Simone Caymmi. along with a New Banda presents itself worldwide.

From the 80s, going on to write texts that are published in books Test Poetic Tom Jobim and Ana Jobim (1987), with photographs taken by Jobim and his wife Ana Botanic Garden, with photographs of Zeca Araújo. Also holds the project Visions of Paradise - The Atlantic Forest, which participates in a video and writes a book, accompanied by photos of Ana Jobim, on the forest. In 1987, launches Passarim OCD, with arrangements and production by Paulo Jobim, Jacques Morelenbaum, which comes accompanied by Banda Nova. This disc received in 1988, the Sharp prize, the Golden Disc Award and the Critical Brazilian as the best disc of the year.

During this period his work was recorded in songbooks by Ella Fitzgerald, on disk Ella embraces Tom Jobim (1981) and Jones Salina - Salina sings Jobim with Jobim 's (l994). He had also registered their presentations in several videos as Brazilian Antonio, Tribute to Tom, Tom Jobim and the Bossa Nova and others.

In 1994, launches the CD produced by Brazilian Paulo Antonio Jobim, with special participation of Dorival Caymmi and Sting. The album won in 1996.0 Grammy from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the category: Best Latin Jazz Performance.

He received awards and recognition around the world, among them: the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Rio de Janeiro in 1990, the title of Grand Comandeur des Arts et Lettres, the Legion D 'Houneur in 1989, Doctor Honoris Cause of the University of Lisbon in 1993 and the Order of Rio Branco in 1990.

On December 8, 1994, with the death of Antonio Carlos Brasileiro J obim, Brazil loses some of its tone, and the world loses one of the greatest musical geniuses of our time. But as the Tom Jobim said in 1971, in an interview with Clarice Lispector, "the death does not exist," Tom remains alive in songs and in memory of the people who like him, never ceased to be Brazilian.

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