Gilberto Moreira

Brazilian percussionist and singer (1940, Niterói - RJ). He was very fond of jazz music, specifically Nat King Cole, and started to imitate him in his twenties. In 1964 he got invited to the group Cry Babies as the lead singer. He toured with the band in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Cry Babies gained a lot of international success, playing at the grand Royal Albert Hall in London. After Cry Babies Gilberto moved to Europe. He got signed in a group called Boa Nova that started in 1976 in Paris with Edison Machado on drums, Mozar Terra on piano, Ricardo Santos on bass, Paulinho Trumpete on trumpet and Pascal Jamgotchian on tenor sax, until 1978. In 1978 he got signed to the jazz group Lafayette, which played Bossa Nova worldwide, particularly in Paris, where he lived for a couple of years - performing with music and painting. In 1987 Gilberto formed a group with his Danish friends called Via Brasil that lasted until 1996. It started in Paris with his fellow musicians Per Trolle on piano, Niels Linchenberg on bass, Michael Åby on drums, Lars Trolle on guitar and Morten Grunvad on percussion. Living in Denmark since 1984, working as a musician and painter, he has played with Stan Getz at a Danish jazz club called Montmartre. He has been singing in Italian, French, English & Portuguese.