Marcos Kostenbader Valle was born on 14 September 1943 and is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and record producer.
19 Facts About Marcos Valle
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Marcos Valle has produced works in many musical styles, including bossa nova, samba, and fusions of rock, soul, jazz, and dance music with Brazilian styles.
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Marcos Valle's parents purchased him a Petrof piano when he was ten years old.
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Marcos Valle's talent was evident from his high school years, which coincided with the explosion of the bossa nova movement in Rio.
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Marcos Valle's classmates included future legends such as Edu Lobo and Dori Caymmi, and his composition "Sonho de Maria" was included on the Avanco album by the influential Tamba Trio in 1963.
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Shortly thereafter, feeling homesick, Marcos Valle returned to Brazil and entered a new creative phase.
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Around this time, Marcos Valle began writing music for TV programs and telenovelas, which over the next few years would become one of the main outlets for his work, along with advertising jingles.
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Marcos Valle contained his most adventurous as well as his most rock-influenced and psychedelic music up to that point.
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Marcos Valle wrote the score for the film O Fabuloso Fittipaldi.
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Marcos Valle's most experimental effort to date, it was a sales flop, although it has acquired admirers over the ensuing decades.
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From 1972 to 1974, Marcos Valle provided the music for Vila Sesamo, Brazil's version of Sesame Street.
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At this point, Marcos Valle had grown tired of the strictures of living and working under Brazil's military dictatorship, then in its darkest and bleakest phase.
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Marcos Valle therefore decided to return to the US, where he spent the rest of the decade.
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In 1984, he released another boogie single, "Bicicleta", but his recording label decided to dismiss its entire cast and concentrate on soap opera LPs and Marcos Valle was unable to complete a new album.
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Marcos Valle recorded a new album in 1999, Nova Bossa Nova, which reached back to his roots in bossa nova and added contemporary electronic influences to his music.
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At this point Marcos Valle had signed with the London-based Far Out Recordings, which specialised in Brazilian musicians such as Azymuth and Joyce.
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In 2001 Marcos Valle produced two other discs, Live in Montreal with guitarist Victor Biglione and a backing band, and Bossa Entre Amigos, a release aimed at the Brazilian market that featured Marcos Valle sharing the bill with Brazilian guitarist and songwriter Roberto Menescal and singer-guitarist Wanda Sa.
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Marcos Valle showed on these releases that he was able to stay true to the roots of his sound while remaining open to modern influences and integrating them into his style.
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On 2005, Marcos Valle released Jet Samba, an all-instrumental collection featuring reworked compositions from past albums, as well as several new songs.