Songs
Arrange: Crismarie Hackenberg
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- country:Brazil
- region:Rio de Janeiro
- style(s):A Cappella, Jazz
- label:Tupiniquim Entertainment Co.
- type:Band, Solo
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:vocal
- artist posted by:Tupiniquim Entertainment Co.
Line up
- André Protasio (Baritone)
- Crismarie Hackenberg (Mezzo)
- Deco Fiori (Tenor)
- Marcelo Caldi (Tenor)
- Naife SImões (Vocal Percussion)
- Simô (Bass)
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With an unusual voice mixing of five men and one woman, BR6 performs without any instrument and has an interesting special feature, very rare in vocal groups: all the BR6 singers are arrangers and have deep musical knowledge. Only with their voices, the sextet performs sophisticated harmonies in a cappella arrangements, written to explore various kinds of blending and the quality of each singer, valuing and remodeling beautiful songs of several styles and from different times.
When they has reached four years in their carreer, it has been released their initial album by Brazilian record label "Biscoito Fino", offering to the people beauty songs chosen in a refined searching in the Brazilian Popular Music repertoire. The album "Musica Popular Brasileira A Cappella" has been also released in Japan, Spain, Argentina, the USA and Canada; and won the best CD of the year 2005 (CARA - Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award) in the Best Folk/World Album category from CASA (Contemporary A Cappella Society).
"Here To Stay Gershwin & Jobim" has been the first BR6 album in English, released in 2007, by an American label with only songs of those great composers. That CD won from RARB (Recorded A Cappella Review Board) the award Pick of the Year 2007 for best a cappella album and, once more, from CASA the best CD of the year, but in the Best Jazz Album category, one of the most important of this awarding. Although the CD has all the tracks in English, it has been also released in Brazil. However, the Brazilian record label has decided to add it a bonus track "Chovendo na Roseira", by Tom Jobim, because that song has been included in the soundtrack of the soap opera "Ciranda de Pedra", produced by Globo TV.
In 2008, BR6 made a great success in their first European tour. The group has performed for warmed audiences of more than 1500 peoples each concert in Austria and at Festivals in Slovenia and Ukraine. In Brazil, the sextet has been invited to record the DVD "United Kingdom of Ipanema" with the musicians Roberto Menescal and Andy Summers, the famous guitarist from The Police. The group has also invited to record the TV show "Som Brasil", produced by Globo TV, sharing the stage with great Brazilian artists like Milton Nascimento, Rosa Passos and Jobim Trio, celebrating the great composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.
The American and European interesting and admiring for the uncommon a cappella style of BR6, as it has been written by the reviewer Ernest Barteldes (Global Rhythm Website), "a cappella group who has the rare ability to make familiar songs sound fresh", show us how much is amazing a vocal group that all members are arrangers. With that musical characteristic, Andre Protasio (baritone), Crismarie Hackenberg (mezzo), Deco Fiori (tenor), Marcelo Caldi (tenor), Naife SImoes (vocal percussion) and Simo (bass) have came out not only in the national musical scenario, but all over the world, showing to the foreigner audiences the Brazilian way of a cappella music.