Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento was born in the boarding house Dona Augusta in the neighborhood of Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro,{{cite web|url=http://www.dicionariompb.com.br/milton-nascimento|title=Milton Nascimento |work=Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira}}{{Cite web |last=Leal |first=Claudio |date=June 29, 2024 |title=Livro narra saga da mãe de Milton Nascimento, morta quando ele tinha dois anos |url=https://www.acessa.com/cultura/2022/10/104663-livro-narra-saga-da-mae-de-milton-nascimento-morta-quando-ele-tinha-dois-anos.html |access-date=August 6, 2024 |website=Acessa.com |language=pt-br}} where his mother, Maria do Carmo do Nascimento, was a maid.{{Cite web |last=Sant'ana |first=Maraci |date=February 16, 2023 |title=Como Outra Qualquer Do Planeta |url=https://blogs.correiobraziliense.com.br/consultoriosentimental/como-outra-qualquer-do-planeta/ |access-date=August 6, 2024 |website=Blog Consultório Sentimental |language=pt-BR}} Maria raised her son on her own, until dying of tuberculosis when he was two, thereafter he was taken care of by his maternal grandmother. Nascimento was then adopted as a young child by the relatives of the grandmother's former employers; Josino Brito Campos, a bank employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer. He moved with his adoptive parents to the city of Três Pontas, in the state of Minas Gerais. When Nascimento was a child, he was nicknamed "Bituca" because he pouted when he was upset, which made him look like a native botocudo.

Nascimento took an interest in music as a child thanks to his mother, who studied under Villa Lobos. At four years old, he was given an accordion and began to sing. At 13 years old, he became a crooner in the group Continental de Duilio Tiso Cougo.{{Cite web |last=Salomão |first=Graziela |title=A mineirice de Milton Nascimento |url=https://revistaepoca.globo.com/Epoca/0,6993,EPT1040876-1655,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204142053/https://revistaepoca.globo.com/Epoca/0,6993,EPT1040876-1655,00.html |website=Época|archive-date=December 4, 2020 }} Nascimento was also an occasional DJ on a radio station that his father once ran.{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p3369/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Biography |access-date=March 22, 2008 |last=Skelly |first=Richard |website=AllMusic }} He lived in the neighborhoods of Laranjeiras and Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1968, Nascimento was married to a student named Lurdeca in Tijuca. The couple lived in Copabacana, though the marriage only lasted a month, later being annulled. After this, he chose to dedicate his time to music instead of marrying or having kids, however, he would later adopt a son, Augusto Kesrouani do Nascimento, in 2016 after ten years of knowing him.

In the early stages of his career, Nascimento played in two samba groups, Evolussamba and Sambacana. He would also play in the group W's Boys alongside Wagner Tiso in Três Pontas. In 1962, he recorded his first song "Barulho de Trem." A year later, in 1963, he moved to Belo Horizonte, where his friendship with Lô Borges led to the Clube da Esquina ("street corner club") movement.{{cite web |url=http://allbrazilianmusic.com/en/Styles/Styles.asp?Nu_Materia=896&Status=MATERIA |title=Clube da Esquina (Club on the Corner) |access-date=March 22, 2008 |last=Essinger |first=Silvio |work=AllBrazilianMusic |publisher=CliqueMusic Editora }}

Members included Beto Guedes, Toninho Horta, Wagner Tiso, and Flávio Venturini, with whom he shared compositions and melodies. One composition was "Canção do Sal", which was first covered by singer Elis Regina in 1966, and led to a television appearance with Nascimento. The collective, as well as some others, released Clube da Esquina in 1972. Several hit singles were also released.{{cite web |url=http://worldmusiccentral.org/artists/artist_page.php?id=2356 |title=Milton Nascimento |access-date=March 22, 2008 |work=World Music Central |publisher=World Music Portal }}

In 1967, he entered the Festival Internacional da Canção after Agostinho dos Santos had sent in three of his tracks to the search committee. He placed second with "Travessia" ("Bridges") and was able to score a three-album contract with Creed Taylor who had been in attendance. He moved to the United States to record with Taylor, beginning with the album Courage in 1969.{{Cite book |title=All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide to Popular Music |date=2001 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-0-87930-627-4 |editor-last=Bogdanov |editor-first=Vladimir |edition=4th |pages=919 |chapter=Milton Nascimento |editor-last2=Woodstra |editor-first2=Chris |editor-last3=Erlewine |editor-first3=Stephen Thomas}}

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Nascimento's compositions include songs such as "Nada Será Como Antes" ("Nothing Will Be As It Was"), "Maria, Maria", "Canção da América" ("Song from America"/"Unencounter"), "Bailes da Vida", and "Coração de Estudante" ("Student's Heart"), a song about the funeral of Edson Luís, who was killed by police officers in 1968. The song became the hymn for the Diretas Já social-political campaign in 1984, was played at the funeral of President-elect Tancredo Neves the next year, and was also played at Ayrton Senna's funeral.

While his reputation within Brazil was firmly established with his Clube da Esquina works, Nascimento's international breakthrough came with his appearance on jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter's 1974 album Native Dancer. This led to widespread acclaim, and collaborations with Paul Simon, Sarah Vaughan, Mercedes Sosa, Carlos Santana, Pablo Milanés, Cat Stevens, George Duke, Quincy Jones and Earth, Wind And Fire. Angelus (1994) features appearances by Pat Metheny, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Nana Vasconcelos, Jon Anderson, James Taylor, and Peter Gabriel, among many others. Through his friendship with guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, Nascimento came to work with the pop rock band Duran Duran in 1993. Nascimento co-wrote and performed the song "Breath After Breath", featured on the band's 1993 album Duran Duran. He also performed with the band in concert when they toured in Brazil in support of that album.

In 1996, Nascimento contributed the song "Dancing" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Rio, produced by the Red Hot Organization.

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Nascimento starred in the 2002 musical theater piece Ser Minas Tão Gerais by the group Ponto de Partida.{{Cite web |date=July 17, 2013 |title=Com Milton Nascimento no elenco, "Ser Minas Tão Gerais" tem única apresentação no Palácio das Artes |url=https://www.otempo.com.br/diversao/magazine/com-milton-nascimento-no-elenco-ser-minas-tao-gerais-tem-unica-apresentacao-no-palacio-das-artes-1.681776 |access-date=July 12, 2022 |website=Otempo.com.br |language=pt-BR}}{{Cite web |title=Milton Nascimento recita Carlos Drummond de Andrade |url=https://vejasp.abril.com.br/cidades/milton-nascimento-carlos-drummond-de-andrade-teatro-alfa/ |access-date=July 12, 2022 |website=VEJA SÃO PAULO |language=pt-BR}} The piece paid homage to the poetry of Nascimento and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, two "iconic" poets from Minas Gerais.

In 2004, he worked with the Brazilian heavy metal band Angra, on the song "Late Redemption" from their album Temple of Shadows.

In 2016, Nascimento was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music.

In 2018, Nascimento released the EPs A Festa and Nada Será Como Antes, consisting of acoustic reinterpretations of some of his past hits.{{cite web |url=https://www.universalmusic.com.br/2018/09/21/milton-nascimento-esta-de-volta-e-lanca-o-ep-a-festa-acustico-alem-do-videoclipe-de-maria-maria/ |title=Milton Nascimento está de volta e lança o EP "A Festa – Acústico", além do videoclipe de "Maria Maria" |date=September 21, 2018 |trans-title=Milton Nascimento is back and releases the EP "A Festa – Acústico", as well as the music video for "Maria Maria" |language=pt-br |publisher=Universal Music Brazil |access-date=December 2, 2024 |archive-date=December 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203173743/https://www.universalmusic.com.br/2018/09/21/milton-nascimento-esta-de-volta-e-lanca-o-ep-a-festa-acustico-alem-do-videoclipe-de-maria-maria/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |date=November 30, 2018 |url=https://www.universalmusic.com.br/2018/11/30/com-releituras-acusticas-de-alguns-de-seus-maiores-sucessos-milton-nascimento-lanca-o-ep-nada-sera-como-antes/ |title=Com releituras acústicas de alguns de seus maiores sucessos, Milton Nascimento lança o EP "Nada Será Como Antes" |trans-title=With acoustic reinterpretations of some of his biggest hits, Milton Nascimento releases the EP "Nada Será Como Antes" |language=pt-br |publisher=Universal Music Brazil |access-date=December 2, 2024 |archive-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121231735/https://www.universalmusic.com.br/2018/11/30/com-releituras-acusticas-de-alguns-de-seus-maiores-sucessos-milton-nascimento-lanca-o-ep-nada-sera-como-antes/ |url-status=live}}

In 2020, Nascimento released Existe Amor, a four-track collaborative EP with São Paulo rapper Criolo. The EP was part of the Existe Amor project, a campaign for a solidarity fund for Brazilians in socially vulnerable conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. The campaign's launch took place via projections on buildings in São Paulo to encourage donations to organizations such as É de Lei, SP Invisível and Arsenal da Esperança, among others.{{cite web |date=April 24, 2020 |url=https://rollingstone.com.br/noticia/milton-nascimento-e-criolo-reinventam-nao-existe-amor-em-sp-de-modo-emocionante-para-ajudar-pessoas-vulneraveis-da-cidade/ |title=Milton Nascimento e Criolo reinventam 'Não Existe Amor em SP' de modo emocionante para ajudar pessoas vulneráveis da cidade |trans-title=Milton Nascimento and Criolo reinvent 'Não Exist Amor em SP' in an exciting way to help vulnerable people in the city |language=pt-br |website=Rolling Stone Brasil |access-date=December 2, 2024 |archive-date=July 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710110812/https://rollingstone.com.br/noticia/milton-nascimento-e-criolo-reinventam-nao-existe-amor-em-sp-de-modo-emocionante-para-ajudar-pessoas-vulneraveis-da-cidade/ |url-status=live}}

On October 26, 2021, on his 79th birthday, Nascimento announced his 2022 farewell tour A Última Sessão de Música (The Last Music Session) on social media,{{cite web |date=October 26, 2021 |url=https://holanews.com/el-cantautor-brasileno-milton-nascimento-anuncia-su-gira-de-despedida/ |title=El cantautor brasileño Milton Nascimento anuncia su gira de despedida |trans-title=Brazilian singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento announces his farewell tour |language=es |website=Hola News |access-date=December 2, 2024 |archive-date=January 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124110841/https://holanews.com/el-cantautor-brasileno-milton-nascimento-anuncia-su-gira-de-despedida/ |url-status=dead}} although he would later state that he was not quitting music. The title of the tour is a reference to the track of the same name on his 1973 album Milagre dos Peixes.{{cite web |date=June 26, 2022 |last=Adams |first=Scott |url=https://www.connectbrazil.com/milton-nascimento-says-goodbye/ |title=Milton Nascimento Says Goodbye |website=Connect Brazil |access-date=December 2, 2024 |archive-date=June 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613170719/https://www.connectbrazil.com/milton-nascimento-says-goodbye/ |url-status=live}} He played his last show on November 13, 2022, at the Mineirão stadium in Belo Horizonte.{{cite web |date=November 14, 2022 |url=https://g1.globo.com/mg/minas-gerais/noticia/2022/11/14/milton-nascimento-emociona-e-leva-mais-de-60-mil-pessoas-ao-mineirao-no-ultimo-show-da-carreira.ghtml |title=Milton Nascimento emociona e leva cerca de 60 mil pessoas ao Mineirão no último show da carreira |trans-title=Milton Nascimento excites and takes around 60 thousand people to Mineirão in the last show of his career |language=pt-br |website=g1 |access-date=December 2, 2024 |archive-date=October 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029110857/https://g1.globo.com/mg/minas-gerais/noticia/2022/11/14/milton-nascimento-emociona-e-leva-mais-de-60-mil-pessoas-ao-mineirao-no-ultimo-show-da-carreira.ghtml |url-status=live}}

On November 15, 2023, Nascimento released Outros Cantos, a collaborative album with sertanejo duo Chitãozinho & Xororó.{{cite web |date=November 14, 2023 |title=Milton Nascimento se une a Chitãozinho e Xororó em álbum conjunto "Outros Cantos" |trans-title=Milton Nascimento joins Chitãozinho & Xororó on joint album "Outros Cantos" |language=pt-br |url=https://rollingstone.com.br/musica/milton-nascimento-se-une-a-chitaozinho-e-xororo-em-album-conjunto-outros-cantos/ |website=Rolling Stone Brasil |archive-date=December 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201232118/https://rollingstone.com.br/musica/milton-nascimento-se-une-a-chitaozinho-e-xororo-em-album-conjunto-outros-cantos/ |url-status=live}}

On May 15, 2024, Nascimento announced a new album with American musician and songwriter Esperanza Spalding titled Milton + Esperanza. Recorded in Brazil in 2023, it was released on August 9, 2024, via Concord Records and received critical acclaim from music critics. The album was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. On October 29, 2024, Nascimento released the collaborative EP Moon Over Minas with American musician and producer Jonathan Wilson. The EP was recorded while Wilson was on tour in Brazil.{{cite web |last=Kahn |first=Andy |date=November 14, 2023 |title=Jonathan Wilson & Milton Nascimento Release Collaborative 'Moon Over Minas' EP |url=https://www.jambase.com/article/jonathan-wilson-milton-nascimento-moon-over-minas-ep |website=JamBase |archive-date=November 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241114174101/https://www.jambase.com/article/jonathan-wilson-milton-nascimento-moon-over-minas-ep |url-status=live}} Although Milton stated that he would be retiring from live concerts and tours, a NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFUhTmOSdGQ |title=Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert |date=August 7, 2024 |last=NPR Music |access-date=January 25, 2025 |via=YouTube}} was published on August 7, 2024, featuring him, Esperanza Spalding, Guinga, Maria Gadú, among other artists performing five songs from the album. As NPR Music states in the description of the performance on YouTube, "it’s likely to be the only video performance of this music".

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Studio albums

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• 1967: Milton Nascimento (Travessia)
• 1969: Courage
• 1969: Milton Nascimento
• 1970: Milton
• 1972: Clube da Esquina (with Lô Borges and Clube da Esquina)
• 1973: Milagre dos Peixes
• 1974: Native Dancer (with Wayne Shorter)
• 1975: Minas
• 1976: Geraes
• 1976: Milton (with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock)
• 1978: Clube da Esquina 2
• 1979: Journey to Dawn
• 1980: Sentinela
• 1981: Caçador de Mim
• 1982: Anima
• 1982: Ponta de Areia
• 1982: Missa dos Quilombos (with Pedro Casaldáliga and Pedro Tierra)
• 1983: Ao Vivo
• 1985: Encontros e Despedidas
• 1986: A Barca dos Amantes (with Wayne Shorter)
• 1987: Yauaretê (with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock)
• 1989: Miltons with Herbie Hancock
• 1990: Canção da America
• 1990: Txai
• 1992: Noticias do Brasil
• 1993: Três Pontas
• 1994: Angelus (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, James Taylor and Jon Anderson)
• 1994: O Planeta Blue na Estrada do Sol
• 1996: Amigo
• 1997: Nascimento
• 1998: Tambores de Minas
• 1999: Crooner
• 2000: Nos Bailes da Vida
• 2001: Gil & Milton (with Gilberto Gil)
• 2003: Pietá
• 2003: Music for Sunday Lovers
• 2005: O Coronel e o Lobisomem
• 2007: Milagre dos Peixes: Ao Vivo
• 2008: Novas Bossas
• 2008: Belmondo & Milton Nascimento
• 2010: ...E a Gente Sonhando
• 2010: Under Tokyo Skies (with Herbie Hancock)
• 2011: Nada Será Como Antes: O Musical
• 2013: Uma Travessia: 50 Anos de Carreira
• 2015: Tamarear (with Dudu Lima Trio)
• 2023: Outros Cantos (with Chitãozinho & Xororó)
• 2024: Milton + Esperanza (with Esperanza Spalding)

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Extended plays

• 2018: A Festa
• 2018: Nada Será Como Antes
• 2020: Existe Amor (with Criolo)
• 2024: Moon Over Minas (with Jonathan Wilson)

Compilations

• 2000: Oratório
• 2004: Maria Maria / Ultimo Trem[http://www.faroutrecordings.com/buy/mariamariaultimo/Far Out Recordings] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510105923/http://www.faroutrecordings.com/buy/mariamariaultimo/|date=May 10, 2009}}

Guest appearances

• 1972: Elis by Elis Regina
• 1978: Chico Buarque by Chico Buarque
• 1987: Brazilian Romance by Sarah Vaughan
• 1987: Dezembros by Maria Bethânia
• 2004: Temple of Shadows by Angra

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• Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2012)
• Honorary Doctorate of Music, awarded by Berklee College of Music (2016){{cite news|last1=Bush|first1=Allen|publisher=Berklee College of Music|title=Rita Moreno, the Isley Brothers, Lucian Grainge, Milton Nascimento Honored at Commencement|date=May 7, 2016|url=https://www.berklee.edu/news/rita-morno-isley-brothers-lucian-grainge-milton-nascimento-honored-berklee-commencement|access-date=May 13, 2016}}

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• {{cite book |last=Motta |first=Nelson |title=Noites Tropicais |publisher=Objetiva |year=2001 |location=Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |isbn=85-7302-292-2 |language=pt |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/noitestropicaiss00mott }}
• {{cite book |last=Dolores |first= Maria. |title=Travessia: A Vida De Milton Nascimento |publisher=RCB |year=2006 |language=pt}}
• {{cite book |last=Mei |first=Giancarlo |others=Preface by Sergio Bardotti; Afterword by Milton Nascimento |title=Canto Latino: Origine, Evoluzione e Protagonisti della Musica Popolare del Brasile |year=2004 |publisher=Stampa Alternativa-Nuovi Equilibri |location=Viterbo, Italy }}
• {{cite book |last=McGowan |first=Chris |author2=Pessanha, Ricardo |title=The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil |url=https://archive.org/details/braziliansoundsa0000mcgo |url-access=registration |edition=2nd |year=1998 |publisher=Temple University Press |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |isbn=1-56639-545-3 }}
• Perrone, Charles A. Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965-1985. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. Chapter 4.

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160419033617/http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-milton-nascimento Milton Nascimento: 12 Essential Performances] by Ted Gioia (jazz.com)
• [https://www.connectbrazil.com/milton-nascimento-says-goodbye/ "Milton Nascimento Says Goodbye] with a final concert tour for Brazil, the USA and Europe in 2022, his 80th-birthday year. connectbrazil.com.

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