Celso Fonseca
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- O instrutor de vôo
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1956-11-15
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Discography
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Instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer, Celso Fonseca was born November 15, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro and did start to play his first guitar chords at age 12. Fonseca openly confessed that it was Baden Powell’s music that led him to play. At age 19 he quit the journalist classes at university, decided to study music seriously, took up the guitarrist career and joined Gilberto Gil’s band. Celso has played as a sideman and recorded with the greatest artists from Brazilian Music <a href="ht
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Celso
- Family name
- Fonseca
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Rio de Janeiro
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Genre
- bossa nova
- Instrument
- voice
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- date of birth
- 1956-11-15
- influenced by
- Baden Powell
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