Brasil (The Manhattan Transfer album)

This album won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals.

The song "Soul Food To Go" reached #25 on Billboard Magazine's Top Adult Contemporary chart. The stop-motion animated music video for "Soul Food To Go" was produced by Will Vinton Studios.{{Cite web|last=Miller|first=Chuck|date=October 5, 2011|title=K-Chuck Radio: Relax and feel good with a tasty mix of music….|url=https://blog.timesunion.com/chuckmiller/k-chuck-radio-relax-and-feel-good-with-a-tasty-mix-of-music/10672/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010203650/http://blog.timesunion.com:80/chuckmiller/k-chuck-radio-relax-and-feel-good-with-a-tasty-mix-of-music/10672/ |archive-date=2011-10-10 |access-date=November 22, 2020|website=Times Union}}

{{Track listing

| headline = CD

| title1 = Soul Food to Go

| writer1 = Djavan, Doug Fieger

| length1 = 5:08

| title2 = The Zoo Blues

| writer2 = Djavan, Fieger

| length2 = 3:55

| title3 = So You Say

| writer3 = Djavan, Amanda McBroom

| length3 = 4:47

| title4 = Capim

| writer4 = Djavan

| length4 = 4:58

| title5 = Metropolis

| writer5 = Ivan Lins, Vítor Martins, Brock Walsh

| length5 = 4:15

| title6 = Hear the Voices

| writer6 = Gilberto Gil, Tracy Mann

| length6 = 4:06

| title7 = Agua

| writer7 = Djavan, Walsh

| length7 = 5:08

| title8 = The Jungle Pioneer

| writer8 = Márcio Borges, Milton Nascimento, Walsh

| length8 = 3:30

| title9 = Notes from the Underground

| writer9 = Lins, Martins, Walsh

| length9 = 5:45

| total_length = 41:12

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The Manhattan Transfer

• Cheryl Bentyne – vocals, vocal arrangements (3)
• Tim Hauser – vocals
• Alan Paul – vocals, vocal arrangements (2, 4, 5)
• Janis Siegel – vocals, vocal arrangements (1, 3, 4, 6–9)

Musicians and Guests

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• Jeff Lorber – keyboards (1–3, 5), synthesizer programming (1–3, 5), arrangements (1–3, 5)
• Larry Williams – keyboards (4, 6–7, 9), synthesizer programming (4, 6–7, 9), arrangements (4, 6–7, 9)
• Yaron Gershovsky – acoustic piano (5)
• Wagner Tiso – synthesizer programming (8), arrangements (8)
• Wayne Johnson – guitar (1, 5)
• Dann Huff – guitar (3, 7)
• Toninho Horta – guitar (4, 6, 8)
• Oscar Castro-Neves – guitar (4, 9)
• Victor Biglione – guitar (8)
• Abraham Laboriel – bass (4, 6)
• Nathan East – bass (5, 7)
• Jamal Joanes Dos Santos – bass (8)
• Buddy Williams – drums (1)
• John Robinson – drums (3–4, 7–8)
• Djalma Corrêa – percussion (1, 6)
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion (2, 4–5, 9)
• Frank Colón – percussion (8)
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone solo (3)
• Stan Getz – tenor saxophone solo (4)
• Djavan – guest vocals (1, 4)
• Milton Nascimento – guest vocals (8)
• Uakti (Paulo Sergio Dos Santos, Marco Antonio Guimaraes, Decio De Souza Ramos and Artur Andres Riberto) – soloists (7, 9); Arranged by Marco Antonio Guimaraes

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• Producers – Tim Hauser (Tracks 1–7 & 9); Tim Hauser and Mazzola (Track 8).
• Executive Producer on Brazilian sessions – Alberto Traiger
• Recorded by Ed Thacker
• Second Engineers – Carlos Ronconi and Mike Ross
• Vocal Engineer – Keith Cohen
• Second Vocal Engineer – Ted Blaisdell
• Mixed by Brian Malouf
• Second Mixing Engineers – Jim Dineen and Clif Jones
• Recorded at Ocean Way Recording, Studio 55 and Skip Saylor Recording (Los Angeles, CA); Bill Schnee Studios and The Grey Room (Hollywood, CA); JHL Studios (Pacific Palisades, CA); Som Livre Studios (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
• Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, CA).
• Album Coordination – Marsha Loeb
• Project Coordination – Ivy Skoff
• Art Direction, Design and Paintings – Fayette Hauser
• Back Cover Photography – Lawrence Manning
• Sleeve Photography – Nancy Clendaniel, John Cutcliffe, Fayette Hauser, Tim Hauser, Lawrence Manning and Louise Velasquez.

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• [http://manhattantransfer.net/discography/brasil/ The Manhattan Transfer Official Website]

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