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Below are some very nice videos from great brasilian guitar player Baden Powell

With Dulce Nunes singing "Aos pes da santa cruz" by Goncalves Jose Ze and Pinto Marino:



This is an interview by Pierre Barouh followed by a beautiful Yemanja by Baden:



This is an exceptional document filmed by Pierre Barouh of Baden Powell, the master of choro Pixinguinha and Jao da Bahiana in a white suite. They are playing Lamento and Pixinguinha is trying to impress Clementina de Jesus standing in the back. It takes place at former Pixinguniha's house where he used to live. He had to sell it because of money issue but he asked the landlord to share it with them for this special occasion of being filmed...



Here Pierre Barouh is singing his french version of Samba da bençao by Vinicius de Moraes. This version was included in Claude Lelouche film "Un homme et une femme":



Ok now let's stop a moment on this masterpiece Preludio a-minor by Baden... This was shot in a show in Warsaw. enjoy ...



Baden is playing a medley of his afro sambas including Consolaçao, Canto De Ossanha, cantos de capoeira and Berimbau:



Baden wrote this Samba Triste at the age of 17. It was his first song as a professional. All Baden musical specificity is already there : a mix of classical music and popular samba ... Billy Blanco wrote the lyrics for it. Below is a wonderful instrumental version with a young Baden in Germany: