>> Yamandu
bio: Yamandu Costa (Passo Fundo, January 24, 1980) is a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He plays a seven string nylon guitar.
He began to study double bass at seven years of age with his father, Algacir Costa, leader of the group "Os Fronteiriços" (The Frontiersmans) and perfected it with Lúcio Yanel, a virtuous Argentine rooted in Brazil. At fifteen years old, he studied the folk music of Southern Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
After hearing Radamés Gnatalli, he began it learn the music of other Brazilians, such as: Baden Powell de Aquino, Tom Jobim, Raphael Rabello and others. At seventeen years old he played for the first time in São Paulo in the Cultural Circuit Bank of Brazil, produced by the Study Tone Brazil, and he came to be recognized as the musician to revive the Brazilian double bass.
Yamandu touches diverse styles as chorinho, bossa nova, milonga, tango, samba and chamamé, making him difficult to categorize into a single genre.
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