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Ivan Lins

Sensitive and refined artist, – perhaps, together with Caetano Veloso, the best Brazilian composer since the death of Anthony Carlos Jobim – Ivan Lins has also conquered the not so simple tastes of the most demanding American jazz circles, thanks also to a lot of tours abroad, that have made him to be known as an author of extraordinary melodic vein.

He was Born in 1945, he finished his studies at Cambrigde, Massachesetts, getting a degree in chemistry, autodidactic in music, Lins reaches his first success  toward the end of the sixties, with pages of unmistakable romantic taste, made even more vivid by a rhythmic swing  inherited from the traditional samba: so they were composed “Madalena” (launched by the famous singer Elis Regina), “O Amor é o Meu País”  (used for a long time as boarding musical program by the national Brazilian airline company, Varig), “Abre Alas”, “Somos Todos