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Acoustic guitarist and composer, Marco Campos was born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He studied the guitar with Nicanor Teixeira and Odair Assad, and composition at the Rio de Janeiro’s University. He started his carreer in the seventies, member of important groups of brazilian popular music at that time, as “Cantares” and the “choro” group “Éramos Felizes” Since then, Marco Campos has developed an intensive activity within the musical scene in Brazil, as soloist or as musical director and sideman of some proeminent artists, like Carlos Lyra(one of the most important composers of “Bossa-Nova”) and the first lady of ancient brazilian black music, Mrs. Clementina de Jesus.
Marco Campos has written the arrangements and been in charge for the musical direction of numerous spectacles in Brazil, as, for example, “Rio Canta Caymmi”, “Bahia de Todos os Santos” and “Vinicius de Moraes Por Toda a Nossa Vida”. He has also written scores for theatre, like “Cânticos de Amor - Poemas de Salomão”, as well for movies, like “PSW – Uma Crônica Subversiva” and “Histórias do Mar”, winners of several prizes, in Brazil and abroad. In a very personal way, his work shows a modern approach of composition, based upon brazilian rhythms, as jongo, frevo, choro, samba, bossa-nova and baião.
Marco Campos has been very active in the international music scene, with performances in the United States (Miami and Orlando), Peru (Lima), Switzerland (Montreaux Jazz festival), Cabo Verde (Ilhas do Sal and São Vicente) and France (Paris). He wrote the score for the ballet “Waterdrops”, wich was presented in London, in 2005. He also gave concerts at the II and the III editions of “Bienal Internacional da Música” (2002 and 2004) and at the “II Forum Internacional Pan-Amazônico” (2003) at Belém, the greatest city of the amazonic region.
