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Celso Machado (born January 27, 1953) is a Brazilian guitarist, percussionist and multi-instrumentalist who lives in Vancouver, Canada. Celso Machado transports his audiences through the richness and diversity of Brazilian music and beyond. The regional music of Brazil has arisen out of various blends of African, Portuguese and Indigenous influences. While Celso's music is rooted in the percussive rhythms, harmonies and spirit of Brazil, it also reflects his incurable fascination with other musical traditions. He has gained mastery of a vast array of instruments including: the Arab nay, the southern Italian tamburello, the Moroccan guembri and, most recently, the African...

The whatmusic.com interview... O Pulo do Gato Edison would always say "when I play music it is like a cat jumping, whatever happens I always land on four feet!" That is why this second "Obras" album is really called "O Pulo do Gato" meaning "the cat’s jump". As you listen to this album, you can imagine Edison calling out "O pulo do Gato!" without even a pause in his drumming! The Samba Groove The drum music of Edison Machado is a beautiful relation of exclusiveness and inclusiveness. In his playing he expresses the specific, characteristic groove of samba, true to...

Lena Machado was known as "Hawai`i's Songbird". She was a composer, entertainer and an acclaimed singer whose Hawaiian-style soprano-falsetto performances moved her to dominance in the 1930s and 1940s, often referred to as "the Golden Age" of Hawaiian music. Her remarkable singing style was discovered by a radio broadcaster, who according to the story, heard Lena singing from the top of the mango tree at the Y.W.C.A on Richards Street, and offered her a singing audition. Despite early mic fright, she was an immediate sensation. Over the next 50 years of her singing career, Lena became one of the best-known...