Carlos, Erasmo

Erasmo Carlos

year
1971
label
Philips
from
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
genres
psychedelic pop, jovem guarda, mpb, rock, singer-songwriter

THE BAND

Erasmo Esteves was born in 1941 in Tijuca, Rio, and learned his first guitar chords from Tim Maia. He sang in The Snakes, the group that accompanied Roberto Carlos and Tim, and, briefly in 1962, also in Renato e Seus Blue Caps. His partnership with Roberto began with his first single, in 1964, the year of Festa de Arromba. On TV Record's Jovem Guarda, the show at the heart of Brazil's 1960s rock'n'roll wave, he became the Tremendão. In the following decade, influenced by hippie culture and soul music, he released Carlos, Erasmo in 1971, opening with De Noite na Cama, a song Caetano Veloso wrote for him. He died in Rio in 2022.

TRACKS

  1. De noite na cama
  2. Masculino, feminino
  3. É preciso dar um jeito, meu amigo
  4. Dois animais na selva suja da rua
  5. Gente aberta
  6. Agora ninguém chora mais
  7. Sodoma e Gomorra
  8. Mundo deserto
  9. Não te quero santa
  10. Ciça, Cecília
  11. Em busca das canções perdidas nº 2
  12. 26 anos de vida normal
  13. Maria Joana
  14. A Semana Inteira (Bônus)
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