Win Tickets ($75): Marcos Valle @ Aladdin Theater | Renaissance Man of Brazilian Pop

We are giving away a pair of tickets to Marcos Valle @ Aladdin Theater on September 24. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed September 19.

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From our sponsors:
Marcos Valle
September 24, 2024
$37.50 | 7pm doors/8pm show | All Ages
Purchase Tickets HERE

Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202
More info: www.aladdin-theater.com

Marcos Valle is the Renaissance man of Brazilian pop, a singer/songwriter/producer who has straddled the music world from the early days of the bossa nova craze well into the fusion-soaked sound of ’80s MPB and into the 21st century. His second album, 1965’s O Compositor e o Cantor, is widely considered among the era’s most important. Its hit single, “Samba de Verão,” is one of the most covered songs in Brazilian music history.

Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, Valle studied classical music as a child but listened to many different types of music, especially jazz. He began writing songs with his brother Paulo Sérgio; Marcos was the tune writer, Paulo the lyricist. In the early ’60s, and after Tamba Triohad a hit with his “Sonho de Maria,” Valle was named Brazil’s Leading Composer of the Year at the age of 19. A recording contract soon followed, and in 1964 he released his first album, Samba Demais, for EMI Brazil. A tour with Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’65 the following year got him his first show business connections in America (via Merv Griffin), and in 1966, Walter Wanderley took Valle’s song “So Nice (Summer Samba)” into the U.S. Top 40. Valle soon earned his own American contract, and in 1967, Warner Bros. released the instrumentals album Braziliance! One year later, his Verve debut, Samba ’68, became a Brazilian classic thanks to simple, infectious pop songs like “Batucada,” “Chup, Chup, I Got Away,” and “Crickets Sing for Anamaria” (all of which featured spot-on harmony vocals by his wife Anamaria).