Raimundo Fagner
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Raimundo Fagner Cândido Lopes |
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13 October 1949 Orós, Ceará, Brazil |
| Genres | MPB, pop rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, musician, composer, producer, actor |
| Years active | 1968-present |
| Website | www.RaimundoFagner.com.br |
Raimundo Fagner Cândido Lopes (born in Orós, Ceará, October 13, 1949) is a Brazilian singer, composer, musician, actor and music producer. He is commonly known by the stage name of Fagner.
The youngest of the five children of José Fares, a Lebanese immigrant to Brazil, and Dona Francisca, Fagner was born in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará, although his birth was recorded in Orós.
At the age of five, he won a youth competition at a local radio station. As a teen, he formed vocal and instrumental groups and began to compose his own music. In 1968, he won the Festival de Música Popular do Ceará (Popular Music Festival of Ceará) with his song "Nada Sou" (I am Nothing).
In 1971 he recorded his first single compact in partnership with another musician from Ceará, Wilson Cirino. GER was released by the label, but was not a huge success. The goal was to beat the record success of singers like Antonio Carlos and Jocafi. Also in 1971 itself, he went to Rio de Janeiro, where Elis Regina recorded "Mucuripe" which became Fagner's first success as a songwriter and singer. At the same time, he also recorded the same song on a compact disc, with Caetano Veloso singing "the Return of the White Wing."
Caetano, being an intellectual type, always distanced himself from what is considered pop music (although TROPICÁLIA has launched the rock 'intellectual' in Brazil and South America) and Fagner already represented a Brazilian music rooted much more pop.
Other works, like their fourth album, Oros, 1977, an album that had arrangements and musical direction by Hermeto Pascoal, show a more unconventional approach, one less concerned with commercial success. Closing the 1970s, he released two more albums: I Canto (1978) with another poem by Cecilia Meireles - "Reason", music by Fagner and no claims of the poet, and Beauty (1979). Fagner was considered by the readers of Playboy magazine as the best singer in the year 1979, while in second place was Roberto Carlos (considered to be the King of Latin music).
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