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Paulo Bethencourt (born Paulo Bethencourt da Silva Franco Neto, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a multi-platinum, Grammy nominated music producer, composer and arranger, who has created original musical works for Sony Music International, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, BMG, and Discovery Channel. ==Early life== Bethencourt was born in 1967, three years after the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état that inaugurated an authoritarian military dictatorship regime that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Influenced by the rise of MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) - a musical style that borrows elements from Bossa Nova and characterized by the veiled lyric criticism of social injustice and governmental repression - he began his musical studies at the age of nine with piano instructor Ethel Sophia Galliza, who recognized his talent for music and encouraged further studies. He was given a drum set by his parents on his twelfth birthday and later, at the age of fourteen, his father bought him a guitar, his musical instrument of choice. Bethencourt was first introduced to Jazz at a young age by next-door neighbor, saxophonist Victor Assis Brasil - a Berklee University graduate who performed alongside Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ron Carter. Later, encouraged by renown classical composer and conductor Edino Krieger, Bethencourt decided to pursue a musical career. In 1989, Bethencourt became the first Brazilian citizen to be granted a full scholarship by the federal government to study Jazz abroad, through incentives aimed at boosting cultural development after the fall of the dictatorship. He was accepted at Musicians Institute (MI) in Los Angeles, California, but lost his funding a few months short of the trip, when the newly elected - and two years later, impeached - Fernando Collor de Mello assumed the presidency of the country in 1990, froze the personal assets of all citizens and ended the federally based cultural incentives. Bethencourt enrolled at Musiarte, a private music conservatory institution in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, receiving a full scholarship for his second year of studies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paulo Bethencourt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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