Hogwarts_Express
2009-07-10 03:50:44 UTC
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Leandro Lehart was born in Sao Paulo in 1972.
His artistic career began very early: at just about 14 years old Leandro was able to dance professionally Samba, one of the most important dance in Brazil. At 15 he started to experiment new compositions and rhythms.
Still young, then, he based the “Art Popular”, one of the most important and well-known samba groups in Brazil which sold in less than 10 years more than 7 million copies. The influential high profile magazine “Veja Magazine” pointed Leandro as “the greatest songwriter of the 90s”. He has recorded over 300 songs: 3 of these classified among the 5 most played in Brazil, and 10 of these among the 200 more programmed by the radio.
A close friendship binds Leandro to the player Ronaldo, who also appears in one his videos.
Leandro acquires additional support and popularity so much as to become the undisputed star of "Fantastic" the most important TV show on Brazilian TV Globo, the main television network in the country.
He is not even thirty when he becomes the undiscussed protagonist of the largest show ever produced in Brazil: l’MTV Brazil Unplugged/Art Popular.
Leandro Lehart acquires two important recording studios among the most well-equipped of the country where he produces many artists and realizes his albums working side-by-side with important names of the musical field: Billy Paul, Jorge BenJor, Take 6,Eliana Olodum...
In 2007, he released "Let me Fight For My Right" made it unique not only because Leandro plays all the instruments, but mainly because it manages to successfully combine Brazilian rhythms and R & B influences, world music, pop and soul: a success by audiences and critics.
His popularity led him in the social and thus founded "O Samba Cura O cancer care: Samba dance to spread a culture of prevention in such a difficult country, makes him earning the high recognition of the United Nations and numerous interviews around the world.
SambaPopBrazilMestizo is his first DVD but is also an album of great success: Leandro duets with the history of Brazilian music, all his guests on the disc: Seu Jorge, Jorge Ben, Jorge Aragao, Jair Rodrigues, Alcione. With the latter, considered along with Ellis Regina 's icon of Brazilian music, performs Valeu Demais, melody enthralling, exciting and sensual with a rhythm unmistakable.
Valeu Demais is the first single taken from Album “SambaPopbrazilMestizo” which will be released in the summer of 2009 in Italy with New Music International.