Adriana da Cunha Calcanhotto (* 3. Oktober 1965 in Porto Alegre) brasilianische Sängerin.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Calcanhotto

http://www.adrianacalcanhotto.com/mare/mare.html#

Als Tochter eines Jazzschlagzeugers und einer Tänzerin wurde ihr Lebensweg schon früh
künstlerisch geprägt. Mit 6 Jahren beginnt sie Gitarre zu spielen und später auch zu singen.

Musikalisch wurde sie von der MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) geprägt, literarisch vom
brasilianischen Modernismus. Beeinflusst wurde sie u.a. von Mário de Andrade und Tarsila do Amaral.

Ihre künstlerische Laufbahn begann als Sängerin in Kneipen und als Theaterschauspielerin,
später trat sie in ganz Brasilien als Liedermacherin auf. Gleich mit ihrer ersten Platte fiel sie auf,
sie gewann 1991 den Prêmio Sharp als weibliche Entdeckung. Die meisten Stücke schreibt und
produziert sie selber, sie hat aber auch schon Lieder von Dorival Caymmi und Caetano Veloso interpretiert.

Diskografie
Enguiço (1990)
Senhas (1992)
A fábrica do poema (1994)
Maritmo (1998)
Público (2000)
Cantada (2002)
Adriana Partimpim (2004)
Adriana Partimpim – O Show (2005)
Maré (2008)

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Adriana+Calcanhotto&search=Suchen

Adriana Calcanhotto - Fico Assim sem Você http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zf5cAFJl8
Água Perrier - Adriana Calcanhotto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2nliGzn2ow

This French band was rooted in '99 when Pascal Bertrand (drums and percussion), Pierre Louveton (guitar and vocals) and Guillaume Fontaine (keyboards) decided to make progressive rock music. In 2000 bass player Hervé Esquis joined NEMO but he was soon replaced by Benoit Gaignon. Early 2002 the band started to perform, their first concert was attended by at about 100 spectators. In July 2002 NEMO released their first album entitled "Les Nouveax Mondes", a few months later NEMO hosted again a new bass player named JB Itier. In this line-up NEMO released their second album entitled "Présages", they promoted this CD on the Crescendo Festival in the same year, along with ANGLAGARD, CAST and FOCUS. What a thrill it must have been to watch these progrock bands!

The second album "Présages is a stunning CD, in my opinion as innovative as RUSH and their guitarists has the same varied and inventive play as Alex Lifeson! The five dynamic and alternating compostions contain lots of great breaks and many changes of rhythm and atmosphere. Most of the music is based upon an adventurous, jazzy sounding rhythm-section, a harder-edged guitar and varied keyboards. The interplay between guitar and keyboards is amazing: bombastic with howling guitar and orchestral keyboards, swinging with acoustic guitar and jazzy piano (Chick Corea meets John McLaughlin) or symphonic with heavy guitar-riffs and flashing, very spectacular synthesizer solos. The French vocals sound convincing, this man has a wide range but his role is a bit limited, many parts of this CD are instrumental with lots of biting electric guitar solos and sparkling piano play. Recommended to jazzrock oriented progrock fans!