ANTONIO ADOLFO
Genres: Latin Jazz, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Bossa Nova • Brazil

Antonio Adolfo was born February 10, 1947 in Rio de Janeiro. He is a keyboard player, arranger, and one of the greatest Brazilian talents of his generation. Adolfo's sound and style is contemporaneous; he mixes together jazz, MPB, baroque orchestrations, easy scoring, and a bit of funk, similar to the best work of the Blue Brazil generation on EMI/Odeon Records. Adolfo’s records are extremely sought after in the world of collectors. Antonio Adolfo grew up in a musical family in Rio de Janeiro. He was the son of Yolanda Maurity; a music teacher and violinist of the orchestra of the Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro. At the age of seven he began his violin studies with Paulina D’Ambrozzio, when he was 15 he took up piano, studying with Ayrton Vallim and by seventeen he was already a professional musician. As a musician and arranger he has worked with some of read more...