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Garoto


Garoto ( born as Anibal Augusto Sardinha; Born June 29, 1915 in Sao Paulo; Died May 03, 1955) was an underrated genius of popular music. When Brazilian songs were into simpler harmonies and the grandiloquent, dramatic discourse of the betrayed lovers and the likes, Garoto was composing Duas Contas, a song which, in terms of harmony, interpretation and lyrics, can very well be considered the precursor of bossa nova. That was in the decade of 1940, several years before Laurindo de Almeida's (he himself a former partner of Garoto's) own experimentations with a new guitar rhythm, and João Gilberto's own perfecting of that previous discoveries. Garoto was a son of Portuguese immigrants Antônio Augusto Sardinha and Adosinda dos Anjos Sardinha. His father played Portuguese guitar and violão (acoustic guitar), his brother Inocêncio was also a violonista and singer and his older brother Batista played the banjo and other instruments. Batista was his first inspiration, having received from him his first instrument, a banjo. Having to start to work very early, due to the precarious situation of his family after his father becoming ill, at 11 he was already an assistant at a musical instrument retailer. At the same time his career as instrumentalist began, at the Regional Irmãos Armani, being known as Moleque do Banjo (the Banjo Kid). Soon he would join his brother Inocêncio's group, Conjunto dos Sócios, in 1927. In that year he began to present himself in solo acts in cafes, ac...

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