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Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian percussionist, jazz legend dies at 71
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 9
http://www.reuters.com/article/brazil-vasconcelos-obituary-idUSL1N16H1KB

Naná Vasconcelos, the eight-time Grammy Award-winning Brazilian percussionist known for his wide instrumental range and major role in the free-spirited jazz and world music of the 1970s and 1980s, died on Wednesday in Recife, Brazil, at 71.

A master of the berimbau, a single-string, multi-toned Afro-Brazilian instrument, he is best known for collaborations with Brazilians Milton Nascimento and Egberto Gismonti, Argentine Gato Barbieri and Americans Don Cherry and Pat Metheny.

His inventiveness with bongos, bells, gourds, maracas and other Afro-Latin musical instruments added the same rich, mysterious complexity to the period's percussion as his collaborators added to melody, harmony and song structure.

"He made what looked like rudimentary music sophisticated," said Geraldo Magalhaes, a friend and music producer. "He was a free spirit, loved all over the world."

The influential American jazz magazine DownBeat named Vasconcelos percussionist of the year each year from 1983 to 1991 in its critics poll.

"When I started to play berimbau differently ... the idea came into my mind that instruments have no limitations," he told Modern Drummer magazine in a 2000 interview.

"This idea came from Jimi Hendrix: instruments have no limitations, and I started to treat music in that way." (Reporting by Jeb Blount; Editing by Brad Haynes and Richard Chang)

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Brazilian Percussionist Nana Vasconcelos Dies at 71
3/9/2016 by Associated Press
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/6980910/brazilian-percussionist-nana-vasconcelos-dead

Nana Vasconcelos performs in Guerneville, Calif., in 1987

Acclaimed Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos has died at age 71. He worked over the decades with well-known musicians such as Milton Nascimento.

Vasconcelos died of lung cancer on Wednesday in the northeastern city of Recife where he was born.

He was a master of the single-string percussion instrument known in Portuguese as the berimbao.

The American jazz magazine DownBeat named Vasconcelos percussionist of the year every year from 1983 to 1991.

He started learning music with his musician father and by the time he was 12 he was playing a drum kit, performing at bars with local groups.

Nana rose to national prominence after he moved to Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s and started playing with Nascimento.
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