PRESENTATION -
S E G A L L A is a composer and interpreter of Música Popular Brasileira
(Brazilian Popular Music).
He composes along with poets, writers, songwriters and musicians.
He likes high quality lyrics with impressive verses. His music is popular,
has its own style and outstands in the multitude. He keeps the regional sonority while adding jazz harmonic elements without missing the Brazilian tune. His voice is expressive, emotional and smooth.
He is a truly virtuoso instrument player.
MINI CURRICULUM -
S E G A L L A (Otavio Segala) was born in Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
He started playing the acoustic guitar at the age of 18 (1981) in the same period he got part and won a school literary contest. He took part in several Brazilian Music regional and student’s music festivals and soon started performing his own compositions.
He started playing the acoustic guitar at the age of 18 (1981) in the same period he got part and won a school literary contest. He took part in several Brazilian Music regional and student’s music festivals and soon started performing his own compositions.
In (1983), when he moved to Porto Alegre, Brazil, the music and text performance
"O Compositor" (The Composer), which included unpublished texts by Luís Fernando Veríssimo, was released.
"O Compositor" (The Composer), which included unpublished texts by Luís Fernando Veríssimo, was released.
In (1985), his first songs were composed and recorded.
In the end of (1996) he moved to Tokyo, Japan. He was hired to perform at “Sabath Tokyo", a house of Brazilian and international shows. At the same time, in Brazil, the singer Ângela Jobim recorded a CD with three songs by Segalla, and one of them entitles the CD: "Corpo de Paliçada".
In the end of (1996) he moved to Tokyo, Japan. He was hired to perform at “Sabath Tokyo", a house of Brazilian and international shows. At the same time, in Brazil, the singer Ângela Jobim recorded a CD with three songs by Segalla, and one of them entitles the CD: "Corpo de Paliçada".
In (1998) he moved back to Brazil and started collecting a repertoire to his own first CD.
In (2001), he was invited to perform at the Alturas Cultural Center in Karlsruhe, Germany. There he took part in the “Brazilian Week” been a smashing success of public. At this period Segalla selected his repertoire for his first CD which was recorded in Brazil, and was called "A Bossa do Samba". This work was supported and sponsored by the Secretaria de Cultura de Porto Alegre (Culture Secretary of the City of Porto Alegre), Brazil in (2003). In this same year he moved to Rio de Janeiro and performed a presentation called "Pitada Brazileira" in the famous "Vinícius Bar" with a successful performance.
In (2005) he moved back to Porto Alegre, Brazil and performed in several cultural places and theaters.
In (2006) he debuted the concert "Mokambo" at Teatro Múcio de Castro, in the city of Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil. He played and sung the repertoire of his new CD. He was supported and sponsored by that city’s culture secretary.
His first DVD called "Mokambo" was released in (2007), at Teatro do SESC, in Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil.
His first DVD called "Mokambo" was released in (2007), at Teatro do SESC, in Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil.
In (2008), his second CD, "Mokambo", recorded with featuring the singer Marianna Leporace (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and the musician Alessandro Kramer (Florianópolis, Brazil).
TESTIMONAILS -
"Nothing against the rockers. But, haleluiah, finaly an artist up to follow the Brazilian popular music path. Segalla not only identified the foothpath among so many false footsteps but also follows it as by his own authentic way, with no copies nor melancholy from the past. What distinguishes the quality is not the rhythm but the tastes for the well forged lyrics and the intelligent melody. Blessed Novelty!"
(Luís Fernando Veríssimo, writer - Porto Alegre, Brazil)
"What a fortune that we have Segalla in our art and life story! He has a special, authentic and first class work. We deserve and thank for his existence and work. Saravá, Segalla!"
(Cybele Freire, Quarteto em Cy singer - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
"I liked Segalla’s work. He composes well. Melody, harmony... all just right! I also liked his voice. He sings well".
(Leila Pinheiro, singer and interpreter - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
" The first time I have listened to Segala was in a little café in Ipanema. He is an A-class singer, instrument player and composer. It is rare to find all these characteristics in one single artist. He should be listened all over Brazil and throughout the world".
(Alex Ladd, writer - New York, USA)
"Segalla plays real music. He is a master composer".
(Fausto Wolff, writer and poet - Brazil)
"Segalla doesn’t copy other artists, he mixes a bit of everything in his “mestizo” lab of Brazilian popular music. He produces a sort of melody which goes into one’s ear, and keeps reverberating, reverberating, reverberating in the head... it is “intoxicating”! In a tough and uncommon combination his compositions aggregate sophistication and, at the same time, a smooth tone easy to be listened to. You are going to see Brazil, to see how the artist becomes part of the life of the people, to recognize something very familiar and above all to understand how the interpreter makes the composer complete.
(Marcelo Canellas, journalist at Rede Globo, writer and composer - Brasília, Brazil).
ADVANTAGES OF THE CULTURAL SPONSORSHIP -
The Cultural Sponsor, once supporting the artist, is going to have his brand attached to a worldwide known and valued fine art: Brazilian Popular Music. The cultural market is in frank expansion and the tendency of associating private initiative with art has been proved to be an excellent publicity investment. The cultural sponsorship not only captures attention from potential clients but also spreads the company’s brand resulting into notoriety. The cultural investor plays a notable part in the valorization of the culture, through linking the artist and his public, at the same time as his product is shown in more then a mere consumption good but as an active subject of our daily lives.
PHOTO BY NILTON SANTOLIN.
PORTO ALEGRE, RS, BRAZIL.