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Milton Nascimento

Milon Nascimeno was born on October 26, 1942. He lived the firs

two years of his life in Rio de Janeiro In 1945, his ife was turned

uside down when hs mother died of uberculosis The little boy

moved to litle rs Ponas, a ciy beween he mountains and hesouth of the sate of Minas Gerais, where he came to live with the

couple who would become his parens, Llia and Josino In spite of

facing prejudice for being a black child raised by a white family, Milton

Nascimento had a hapy childhood in the countryside of Minas

Gerais, surrounded by friends, surrounded by music. At five years of

age, he received a harmonica from his parens and, a little later, a

small accordion. His favorie astime was o si on the steps of the

porch and play these wo insruments, and it was on that sme porch

tha he ook his firs seps oward becoming a composer, creating

muscal stories to amuse his friends and neighbors One of those

compadres, Wagner iso, became hs grea friend and usical

parner while sill a eenager.

ogeher, Nascimeno and iso made up the vocal group Luar de

Prata ("Slver Moonligh) hat performed at dances and on the radios

of the owns of the region. The group became Milon Nascimento and

His Combo, and, a he beginning of the 1960s, Nascimento and Tisoformed W'Boys in Alfenas, also in the south of Minas Gerais. They

were so successful that they were invited to take part in the Holliday

Combo in Bel Horizone In 963, upon finishing a technical course

in business that he began after high school, Nascimeno moved to

Bel Horizone and ook up residence in a rented room in the Levy

Building, where he me the Borges family. Beynd the Holliday, he

became a member of the Clio Baon a dance combo. What he earned

from his music, however, was not enough to suppor him in the city.

Because of this, he worked during the day as a typis in an ofice of he

Furnas Elecricity Company

In 1964, wih Wagner Tiso and Paulinho Braga, Nascimento formed the

Berimbau Trio, i which he sarred as the bassist During a breakbeween sets wih the group, he met Mrci Borges, who encouraged

him to become a composer Nascimento resised, and, only after

watching the Franois Truffau film Jules et Jim three imes in a row,

composed his first hree compositions wih Mrci: "Crena, "Novena,

and "Gira Girou. Sill in this period, he recorded he single "Barulho de

re with the Holliday Band and the LP Quareto Sambacana with

Pacfico Mascarenhas n 1966, he took par in the TV xcelsior Music

Festival in So Pauo, performing Cidade Vazia by Baden Powell and

Lula Freire He took fourth place and decided o move to that city. In

that same year, Elis Regina recorded Cano do Sal.

Disappointed by the compeitive amoshere of the fesivals, Milton

Nascimento never ook part in another one, but in 1967 he me singer

Agostinho dos Santos. Under the pretext of recording a record of his

own, Agostinho asked his new friend for a ape with hree songs and

entered him in he second International Song Fesival All three songs

made i into the contest Nascimeno won Best Inerpreation, and one

of he songs, "Travessia, came in second, making i one of

Nascimeno's best-known and ostrecorded songs both in Brazil and

abroad. From there, Nascimento's career took off The Mineiro (native

of Minas Gerais) who had made his debut on he sage of the

International Song Festival because of his three qualifying songs left it

as a heavyweight in Brazilian music with a contrac to record albums in

Brazil and the United Staes.

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His first albums onfirmed him as an innovative omposer and

exeptional nterpreter. With his third P, Mton, in 1970, his musi

got a pop/rok boost from wth the addition of Som lmaginrio, whih

he aompanied with eletri guitars and keyboards. Two years later,

his work ulminated in the double album Cube da Esquna The Club

on the Corner), whh he shared with L Borges and whih ended upbeing alaimed as one of the biggest and ost important

movements in Brazilian popular musi. In the following years, the

"/ube expanded to inlude new members, from old friends to

international stars, inluding Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hanok, James

Taylor, Jon Anderson, Nan Vasonelos, Ron Carter, Peter Gabriel,

Pat Metheny, Gil Goldstein, Jak Deohnette, Meredes Sosa, Fito

Paez, Hubert aw, Sting, Paul Simon, Duran Duran, and Maure

White from the group arth, Wind & Fire

In the almos four dedes of his arer sine ravessia, Milton

Nasimento has proven himself one of the most expressive and

important omposers and interpreters in Brazil and around the world.

In 1990, he beame the irst Brazilian to reah the top of the Billboard

world musi harts with his album Txa and in the two followng years

he was hosen DownBeat Magazne' World Beat Artist of the Year

With a Gram my in 1998 for hs CD Nascmento atin Grammies, and

ountless other important awards in Brazil and abroadsuh as the

Teno Prize at the San Remo Festival in 2009but mostly for being

part of the lves and dreams of people in every orner of the world,

gong where the people are, rootng his musi in the street orners of

the world and spreading it outward, Milton Nasimento has grown into

an artist with one of the most sold and fertile stories in ontemporary

musi, a story still beng told.

PRESNTS

Milton Nascimento

Wison Lopes Guitar

Lincoln Continentino Piano, keyboard

Gasto Vileroy Bass

Lincoln Cheib Drms

Wido Santiago Metals

Sunday, November 16 2014

Berklee Peormance Center

No poron of this performance may be photographed, ecorded, lmed o taped.