Guinga (BR)
From Brazil
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Guinga has one upcoming show in the Netherlands: on October 16, 2026 at Teatro Munganga, Amsterdam.
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About
Also known as: Carlos Althier de Souza Lemos Escobar
Guinga spent nearly thirty years working as a dentist while building one of the most distinctive songbooks in Brazilian music. His real career took off in 1990, when Ivan Lins and Vitor Martins started the Velas label just to release his first album, a set of songs co written with lyricist Aldir Blanc. Before that, he had been quietly busy: accompanying singers like Beth Carvalho and João Nogueira, recording with samba legends Cartola and Clara Nunes, and writing with poet Paulo Cesar Pinheiro, whose shared songs were picked up by Elis Regina and Michel Legrand. The music itself is hard to pin down. He pulls from choro, samba, baião, frevo, modinha, waltz, blues, classical and jazz, and his compositions are harmonically and rhythmically tricky yet still deeply melodic. Over the years he has teamed up with the likes of Maria João, Esperanza Spalding, Gabriele Mirabassi and Francis Hime, and in 2024 he appeared on a Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding record.
