DICK FARNEY

Dick Farney, stage name of Farnese Dutra e Silva (November 14, 1921 - August 4, 1987) was a Brazilian singer, pianist and composer. He began playing piano as a child, when he learned classical music with his father and mother taught him while singing. In 1937 he debuted as a singer in the youth radio program "Hora Juvenil" at Cruzeiro do Sul radio station, in Rio de Janeiro. When performed the song "Deep Purple" (composed by David Rose), was taken by Cesar Ladeira to radio Mayrink Veiga, going to present the program Dick Farney, The Voice And The Piano. The group "Os Swing Maníacos" formed by Dick, had his brother Cyll Farney, (drums), accompanied Edu da Gaita on recording the music "Canção da India", of the Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). From 1941 to 1944, was crooner of the Carlos Machado orchestra at the Cassino da Urca, in the days when gambling read more...