Cassiano

Genival Cassiano dos Santos (September 16, 1943 – May 7, 2021), best known only as Cassiano, was a Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist.

He is recognized, along with Tim Maia and Hyldon, as one of the three great precursors of the establishment of an American funk and soul music influence in Brazilian popular music.

His career, however, was compromised by a serious respiratory problem in the late 1970s, in which he lost part of his lungs. In the late 1940s he moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro and worked as an assistant bricklayer. It was during this time that his father taught him his first chords on the mandolin and guitar.

He began his musical career in 1964 as guitarist in the Bossa Trio, a group that emerged in the wake of the proliferation of samba jazz groups linked to bossa nova, but with a marked influence of jazz and, until then, incipient American soul. a group notably influenced by American soul music.

Although he participated only in the album "Os Diagonais", released in 1969,

Discography

Solo career studio albums

1971 - Imagem e Som 1973 - Apresentamos nosso Cassiano 1976 - Cuban Soul 1991 - Cedo ou Tarde

Anthology albums

2000 - Cassiano Coleção

As member of Os Diagonais

1969 - Os Diagonais