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Sorteio – Nil Lus opens the tour of his show Alma Feminina 05/10 During the presentation, the artist also launches his newest CD “Alma Feminina”
Back in his homeland, musician, poet and composer Nil Lus presents his newest show “Alma Feminina”, where he interprets his vision of women in its most diverse facets. The songs and authorial texts embrace the issues that permeate the female universe in a historical as well as a political and social perspective, including the mythical and mystical side that, according to the artist, “makes women the most dazzling and seductive being on the planet, uterus and cradle of all humanity”. The show is musically directed by Celso Rangel, technical and executive produced by Ricardo Kozlowscky and will have a single presentation in Belo Horizonte on October 5th (Thursday), at Teatro Bradesco, at 9 pm. The show opens the national and international tour to present the CD “Alma Feminina”, the 15th in her career. The public will be treated to special surprise guest appearances. In this current work, Nil Lus reflects his sensitivity about the female soul in choosing some of the hundreds of songs he has composed throughout his career on this theme. The selection became her new CD, also titled “Alma Feminina”, which will be released during the presentation. Its emblematic lyrics reflect the role of women in society and there are no limits to their inspiration. "I cover every aspect of your journey, from child, virgin, teenager, girlfriend, female, wife, lover, prostitute, witch, housemaid, healer, intellectual, factory worker, Indian, executive, feminist, lesbian, combatant, friend, grandmother... With special affection for the most sacred act of her existence, which is being a mother”, declares Nil. Born in Belo Horizonte, Nil Lus is a singer, composer, writer and author of more than 1,200 songs. He has recorded 15 discs (the first one was released in 1995) and has toured America, Europe and Asia playing in over 47 countries. He wrote his first book of poems and his first song at the age of 10 (“Pássaro De Fogo”) and, at 15, was awarded in the 1st National Competition Fritz Teixeira Salles de Poesia with the theme “Poemia”, receiving an honorable distinction . The artist has just returned from a tour of Mexico (beginning of September 2017), where he received at the hands of the mayor of the city of Touluca an award in recognition of his international career at the Festival of Literature and Music. This is the artist's fourth international award. In July 2016, Nil Lus participated in the 50th anniversary of the most famous Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland. He was officially invited by the honorary director Quincey Jones – former producer of Michael Jackson, a lover of Brazilian music, who chose the Brazilian artists, including Ivan Lins, Maria Gadú and Ana Carolina. The first time that Nil Lus performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival was in the 2004 edition, alongside Luiz Melodia, Exaltasamba and Paralamas do Sucesso. Occasion in which he recorded a live album in an audience of eight thousand people. Source: www.agendabh.com.br
Nil Lus represents the Brazilian musicality of excellence in the world!
Nil Lus is successful in Europe and worldwide! Nil Lus has a successful career. Author of over a thousand songs, he has performed around the world with great repercussion in the media. He has recorded 15 albums between Europe and Brazil. Received 5 international awards. In July 2019 Nil Lus received the Berimbau Cultural Gold Award in Salvador, Bahia, for his career as an artist and poet of MPB. In October 2019 Nil Lus received the great LAHFF 2019 MUSIC ARWARD Award in London at the LONDON ARTHOUSE FILM FESTIVAL (LAHFF.UK) as one of the most prolific singers and composers of WORLD MUSIC in Brazilian pop music in Europe. He edited two books: a novel and a poetry book. He has toured America, Europe and Asia. Nil Lus is an artist decorated by the French Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in Paris; by the French Senate and by the Poetas del Mundo Institution of Chile. He has performed twice at the most famous festival in the world, the Montreux Jazz Festival, recording a live album for over 10,000 people. Praised by musicians and journalists from the 45 countries where he played, he is a true ambassador of Brazilian music. For the American critic and entrepreneur Johnny Marty, Nil Lus is «The Sting of the Brazil». A cannon of pure creativity and intelligence. Nil Lus is a real acoustic shell that holds many pearls of this "true globetrotter of sounds", as he was called by journalist Thaís Pacheco, music critic of Estado de Minas newspaper or this "brilliant poet who plays" as he once called him Toninho Horta . In 2018, with the album «TODOS TOONS» he received a nomination for the Latin Grammy. In 2020 he was named one of the best artists in World Music in the Brazilian Diaspora in Europe. The awards will be at the Parliament in London next year. Event postponed by the pandemic issue. Without limits for his overwhelming inspiration, in this current work, in a critical and attentive look, Nil Lus transposes his poetic sign to a creative universe of rhythms and sounds in a journey that goes from the Latin Caribbean to London's new rock. An excellently conceived fusion of rhythms, Celso Rangel's production was decorated with elegance and good taste, wonderful melodies and intelligent lyrics framed by modern arrangements and a great vocal performance. The 11 tracks bring elements of world music fusion and compositions full of strength and poetry that runs in his literary and poetic blood. Anthropophagic, lyrical, reflective, dancing, simple and rebellious. All this blends with elegance and good taste in the melodies and lyrics of this talented artist. They are songs from different genres, in a fusion of the new Brazilian pop. Currently Nil Lus is hyper busy despite the culture sector having been the first to be impacted. Stuck in the studio recording the soundtrack he composed for a German feature film that will come out in early 2021. He has just released his fifteenth album just 3 months away. COMO CAIDO DEL CIELO is the title of the new album by singer, composer and writer Nil Lus.The fifteenth career album. In this new work Nil Lus lives up to his international aura as a world-renowned artist, singing in Portuguese and Spanish. This is the experience that the artist from Minas Gerais had already done on his previous album, which was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2018. The tracks on his new album COMO CAÍDO DEL CIELO reinforce his strong poetic lyricism mixed with his subtle and romantic soul that has always marked his trajectory as a writer of over a thousand songs. A musical production and arrangements by Celso Rangel with the collaboration of Julio Martins Zoá and Elpidio Bastos – musical director of Olodum. It's on digital platforms. The link is: https://open.spotify.com/album/44MFlJRSo50TTujHRiruQA. This week it released the official video of a song about the corona virus on social networks called: A CROWN WITHOUT KING. Whose Youtube link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avoRudzhLBo Parallel to his gift of singing, playing and composing that one day became an office Nil Lus nurtures and pursues a writing career. Two months ago he finished a book of poems: O AUTONO FALLS DE LOVES FOR SPRING. Tirelessly, he is now preparing the first volume of a tetralogy that he is writing for the end of the year after extensive research in the Vatican, Iraq and New York, where he already lived in the 1990s. first book: “The Journey to the Other Side”; a retrieval of soul-building wisdom. An esoteric triler. It is a novel with attractive elements of post-modern culture. Like your first novel, it will be accompanied by a soundtrack. Nil Lus mixes prose and music, fiction and reality in this book. Its characters are real and fictional figures. When reading it, one does not know where reality ends and fiction begins. For this reason he wanted these characters to go beyond simple names printed on paper, so he uses music as a pretext of a kind of artistic and aesthetic transmigration. Nil Lus believes that only the art of music, beyond, of course, the art of cinema, can achieve this supradimensional effect. "I can't find any other explanation than that maybe deep inside me lives a frustrated filmmaker with an old, dusty and broken camera over his shoulders." - enumerates. Nil Lus as a writer has already published two books: O DADIVANTE – a book of aphorisms and A VIAGEM PARA OTHER LADO – a novel accompanied by a soundtrack. - second edition in Brazil. Source: www.brasilflashtv.com (01/09/2020)
From the courts to the stages of the world. After joining the Brazilian national team as a handball player, Nilton Cruz from Minas Gerais followed his dream of being a musician and now competes for the Latin Grammy
Sport and guitar were the two passions of a boy born in Belo Horizonte in the early 1960s. After playing at Ginástico, Nilton Cruz joined the Brazilian handball team and became known as Canhão. Time passed and Cannhão became Nil Lus, singer and songwriter, and has just been nominated for a Latin Grammy. This story begins in Bairro Nova Vista, where he was born and raised “with great pride”. Since I was little, I dreamed of playing the piano. He asked his mother, Raimunda Maria da Cruz, known there as Lia, to buy him one. “It didn't. It said that if you bought a piano, you would have to sell the house. But when I turned 10, she gave me a used guitar as a gift. I went crazy. Who does not have dog, hunts with cat. So, the piano was forgotten and I embraced my new passion”, recalls Nilton. At the same time, he learned about handball at Colégio Estadual Central – where the sport was played for the first time in Minas Gerais, brought by the hands of professor Lincoln Raso, in the late 1960s. The first great team from Minas Gerais was born there, the Ginástico, which reached the Brazilian bi-championship, in 1974 and 1976, with a team that had Bacalhau, Toco, Gustavo – both sons of Lincoln Raso –, Lúcio, Zequinha, Fred, Lelei, Jorge, Zé Augusto, Zé Rubens, Nelson, Jamanta and Chato, a team that, by the way, was the basis of the Brazilian team for several years. Cannhão was a reserve in the 1976 conquest. Outstanding in the school, Cannhão also took over the direction of the Gym. Defending the club, he joined the Brazilian team in the late 1970s and remembers his debut in detail. “It was in a game at Mineirinho, Brazil vs Israel. I was the only miner called up. The team was full of people from São Paulo. I was on the bench, dying to get in. My friends, teammates, were all in the chairs. But the technician wouldn't even look at me. But suddenly he called me. I went in and on the first ball I caught, it was in the midfield, I sent a shot there in Israel's goal drawer. I went crazy. I left running and went to celebrate with friends. Nobody had ever done that. The game stopped. From there, I became the title holder and was in all calls.” Cannhão says that he played in several international tournaments between South Americans and pre-Olympics. “We were always doing very well, but we decided against the USA. They were very strong. Handball was just starting in Brazil. They had played there for a long time and there were a large number of teams, unlike here. We never got to go to an Olympics back then. But we compete in the worlds.” The song Cannon goes back in time and remembers the guitar. He says he played wrong. “My guitar, the one my mother gave me, wasn't tuned. It was out of tune, but I could play it. One day, I was 10 or 11 years old, playing sitting on the curb, when a neighbor, Pastor Antônio, passed by. He told me he was wrong. I insisted not. But he took the guitar from me and tuned it. Then he gave it back to me. Damn it. I didn't know how to play anymore. I came home crying. My father wanted to know what had happened. I told him and said the pastor had ruined my guitar. That's when my father patiently explained to me that now the guitar was right and that I should practice. He was right.” And playing handball, with each victory, each title, the guitar was there, together. “We went out to celebrate and there was always a guitar. I played and people cheered. I started to wake up to this detail. Later, to earn money, he played in bars. It became my livelihood, as our sport did not pay. The bars were a school for me.” Sonho Canhão passed the entrance exam for physical education at UFMG. At the same time, he passed the course in administration and economics at Fumec. “I even started dentistry at PUC, but I abandoned it. I didn't have the money to pay for a university course. Then handball was of great value, as the director of Fumec called a neighbor at my house, the same pastor, sent for me and asked to go talk to him. Gave me a bag and set up a handball team. It was the first university in Belo Horizonte.” Summoned once again for the Brazilian team, Cannhão competed in the Pre-Olympic in the United States. “We didn't win, for a change. But there he had a four-year visa. I decided to use it for music. I was called up for a handball tournament in Canada, but I abandoned the sport and decided to bet on my dream, music. I went to the US, I worked as a security guard at a nightclub, I was a street vendor. But I managed to play in a Brazilian concert hall, Via Brasil. That's when luck started to change.” And there, a music producer saw him took him to Europe. “I had already written a lot. I only played my songs. I went to Portugal and there I founded the Lusofonia – Sons da Fala project, in partnership with Sérgio Godinho, Vitorino, Tito Paris and others. It started to work. Invitations came to record records. First, in France, there were two. In Portugal, five. One in Spain, another in New York and also in England. Then I moved to Germany, where I recorded five, including the last one, All Tones.” Nil Lus' career has grown a lot. To give you an idea, he has already performed twice at the Montreux Festival. He performed in Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, as well as Brazil. This week, he embarks on a three-week tour of Mexico following his Grammy nomination. The last song on the CD is called México Bonito Y Amigo. The nomination for the Latin American award moved him. “I swear I didn't expect it. It's a very important thing for any musician. Now, at the end of September, the winners should be released. I find it difficult to win, but I consider it a great victory to have been nominated.” The album Todos os Tons was produced by Victor Flowers, former producer of Alicia Kiss. It also has the co-production of the German Jurik Maretzki. Among other awards and decorations, he was the winner of the 1st National Fritz Teixeira Salles Poetry Contest, with the theme “Poemia”, at age 15, and received, in April 2007, the title Médaille dargent, by the French Academy of Sciences, Letters and Culture in Paris. In 2006, his song Tambor was chosen as the theme for the World Cup in South Africa. Source: superesportes.com.br (03/09/2018)
River FlashTv - entrevista Nil Lus no Montreux Jazz Festival 2016
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