Celso Murilo

The whatmusic.com interview... mr rhythm! Celso Murilo Levanhagen’s music belongs to a watershed period in the history of brazilian music. Celso Murilo was at his creative peak at a time when the massive influence of cuban pop music was beginning to wane in favour of the new breed of young composers finding their feet in the wake of Joao Gilberto’s seminal 1958 release ‘Chega de Saudade’. That album is generally accepted as the starting point of what became known as bossa nova but