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Carlinhos do Pandeiro - Samba Percussion Master (Mestre)
World-famous Carlinhos do Pandeiro is now the official "mestre" of the bateria of SambaLá.- one of the best and oldest samba schools in the United States.
Carlinhos, from the most famous samba school in Rio "Mangueira", started playing pandeiro around the age of seven andreceived his first big break at the age of 14 when director Marcel Camus tapped him for the part of Zeca in Orfeu Negro winning best foreign film at the 1959 Academy Awards.
In 1982 he joined flutist Herbie Mann's group. Other legendary Brazilian musicians Carlinhos has performed and toured with include Martinho da Vila, Beth Carvalho, Maria Bethania, and Sergio Mendes. His career as a percussionist sideman took him on tours through Europe, the Americas, Australia, Asia, and Africa.
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Kirk Brundage - Bahia Percussion Master (Mestre)
Kirk is SambaLa's current "mestre" of bahian bateria rhythms. He is a professor in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology. His primary concentration has been Afro-Brazilian percussion from historic and mystical Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. There, he studies the religious drumming of Candomble, the Berimbau of Capoeira, the roots of Samba, as well as modern Carnaval and pop styles. He has played in Brazilian Carnaval many times with the world-renowned percussion group Bloco Afro Olodum. Kirk is currently writing an instructional book entitled: “Afro-Brazilian Percussion Guide: From Mystic Roots to Contemporary Carnaval.”
Visit Kirk's website at UCLA
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Music Director
A student of music since age 8, David was playing Mozart and Beethoven on the piano by age 11. Raised on classical piano and trumpet, he has always enjoyed music and has played guitar, banjo, baratone, and now Brazilian Percussion. David is also a student of music theory, having studied Brazilian Samba School drum teaching techniques in Brazil with drum masters Faisca of Império Serrano and Mestre Odilon of Grande Rio. He also has been singing samba enredo for almost 10 years and was the first non-Brazilian to in the sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro.
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Bateria Director Jason Brancazio
Jason Brancazio's love affair with Brazilian music dates to 1997. Making great noise from unlikely sources, in fact, summarizes Jason's approach to music. Largely self-trained as a performer and composer, he specializes in mixing sounds together on his computer to create instrumental dance songs. He's released about a dozen tracks internationally on 8 independent record labels, including a wild batucada-inpsired tune called "Bateria Virtual". As a percussionist, Jason exemplifies Sambala's approach to being a true,nurturing samba school. He took his first lesson on the very first night Sambala started offering lessons at Tony's and never looked back. Over the past two years, Jason has learned many of the brazilian percussion instruments, including repinique, caixa, surdo, tamborim, chucalho and pandeiro, and has played most of these instruments on stage at Tony's. He considers it an honor to lead the bateria, and looks forward to getting the audience out of their seats and on to the dance floor!
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