DJ Marlboro

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DJ Marlboro, born Fernando Luiz Mattos da Matta in 1963, is a Brazilian DJ. He is regarded as one of the founders of funk carioca, a cross between electro, hip hop and Brazilian popular music, which also draws on African musical traditions. His first LP, Funk Brasil from 1989, marks the beginning of the Funk Carioca Movement.

Music and breakthrough

The idea came from the bailes in Rio de Janeiro, the parties where freestyle music was played. The audience could not understand English and therefore made Portuguese versions of the songs themselves, and Marlboro took that over by making Portuguese versions of American songs. He owes his nickname to a remote district of Rio, in the area called Marlboro Country, where he lived. He makes and presents the radio programme Big Mix in Rio. In 2004 he was introduced to a worldwide audience, when the German journalist and label boss Daniel Haaksman founded the label Man Recordings and put him and Edu K forward. Earlier, in 1999, he had already released Valeu Shock.

Influence

In this way an American style, by way of Portuguese versions at the bailes of Rio, became a Brazilian movement of its own.

Listening

Discography

Studio albums

• 1989Funk Brasil 01
• 1999Valeu Shock
• ?As melhores do DJ Marlboro

Mentioned in other articles

• Baile funk GenreIn 1989 DJ Marlboro released the album Funk Brasil, with lyrics in Portuguese.

See also

• Baile funk