Brazilian singer-songwriter João Bosco was born João Bosco de Freitas Mucci in
1946 and began his working life as an engineer. After relocating to Rio de
Janeiro he began to collaborate as a songwriter with Elis Regina who, prior to
her untimely death at the age of 36 was one of Brazil's best loved and most
famous artists. Regina's recordings of Bosco's songs projected him into the
limelight and his career began to take off.
Bosco's style is an intriguing fusion of three primary musical sources - bossa
nova, Afro-American and Arabic with some American jazz influences thrown in...