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Jorge Ben "Solta O Pavao" (Philips, 1975) (LP)
Like most of Ben's early-'Seventies work, this is some of the prettiest Brazilian music you're ever likely to hear, incredible stuff from a superstar's creative peak. It sounds like it could be, with a mellow, soulful sound that will lull you into his funky wavelength. 4 January 2019 . Flashback: See Eartha Kitt Introduce Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 Performance of 'Mas Que Nada' .

Jorge Ben "A Banda Do Ze Pretinho" (Som Livre, 1978) (LP)
(Produced by Paulinho Tapajos)
Starts off straight disco-samba (though still a notch above many lesser efforts in the same direction...) but swiftly settles into a funky, melodic groove, with a Sly Stone-ish foundation. Jorge Ben performing with organist Ze Maria (a sort of a Walter Wanderley wannabee), singing on a couple of his tunes ("Mais Que Nada" and "Por Causa De Voce Menina"), presumably before his contract with Philips Records kicked in.

He also took part as a pandeiro player in the blocos of Carnaval, and from eighteen years of age, he began performing at parties and nightclubs with the guitar that his mother gifted him. @enkuti that's true, I also have Ethiopian roots. He collaborated with hip-hop artists Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, and Bilal to remake Fela Kuti's famous song "Shuffering and Shmiling" for the CD.

Ben was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2005.^[12] A year later, a remake of Ben's "Mas, que Nada!" became an international chart hit for Sérgio Mendes with The Black Eyed Peas after being used by Nike in a global TV advertisement during the 2006 FIFA World Cup; this remake (the second time Mendes had covered the track) reached the Top 10 in several European countries, including the UK and Germany, in addition to reaching Number 1 in the Netherlands.

Jorge Ben is also a big fan of Flamengo, a Brazilian football club, located in Rio de Janeiro, which counts Zico, Junior and Leandro among their former star players.

15 to 26 . Oh, well.

Jorge Ben "Ben E Samba Bom" (Philips, 1964) (LP)
(Produced by Armando Pittigliani)
More classic early work, with more peppy '60s samba tracks and Ben's trademark vocal style: strong, joyful and instantly appealing.

Jorge Ben "Recuerdos De Asuncion 443" (Som Livre, 2007)
(Produced by Guta Graca Mello & Max Pierre)
This album is said to be odds 'n' ends from his pop-soul Som Livre years, back in the 1980s...

November 10, 2009 . . (The liner notes don't say who the backing musicians were; he had been working with Copa Cinco before, although I suspect pianist Dom Salvador or some of Wilson Simonal's crew were involved...) Nevertheless, you can hear Ben reaching for a new sound, and for more control over his own music -- his super-groovy acoustic guitar is mixed more prominently, and fuller, more rounded melodies emerge on the tracks where the grinding piano is less dominant.

One of his best records... September 24, 2018 . Features "Taj Mahal," the song which has the original melody to Rod Stewart's plagiaristic "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Stewart got sued for stealing the melody and settled with Ben for an undisclosed (and presumably quite large) amount of cold, hard cash. 1414-350X .