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Vinicius Cantuaria now releasing Jobim covers album / PopMatters

Brazilian vocalist and guitarist Vinicius Cantuária has had an active recording career for more than 30 years and he is just now releasing his Jobim covers album. If you think about it for just a little bit, you'll realize that you can't blame Cantuária for taking this long to warm up to the idea. Antônio Carlos Jobim was a musical figure who transcended the idea of a "national treasure" for Brazil. Not only did he write the songs "Desafinado" and "The Girl from Ipanema", but he continued to work on music until he died. The quantity and quality of his work looms large over the bossa nova style, so spending on an entire album trying to do Jobim's songs justice may feel like an artistic kiss of death. In the not-so-curious case ofVinicius Canta Antonio Carlos Jobim, a self-explanatory album title if there ever was one, that concern goes nowhere. Vinicius Cantuária sings and plays thirteen of Tom Jobim's songs as if it were the most natural thing in the world.  READ THE FULL PopMatters ARTICLE