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Luiz Floriano Bonfá is a Actor and Sound Brésilien born on 17 october 1922 at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)

Luiz Floriano Bonfá

Luiz Floriano Bonfá
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Nationality Bresil
Birth 17 october 1922 at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)
Death 12 january 2001 (at 78 years) at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)

Luiz Floriano Bonfá (often seen as Luis Bonfá) (October 17, 1922 – January 12, 2001) was a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He was best known for the compositions he penned for the film Black Orpheus.

Biography

Bonfá was born on October 17, 1922, in Rio de Janeiro. He began teaching himself to play guitar as a child; he studied in Rio with Uruguayan classical guitarist Isaías Sávio from the age of twelve. These weekly lessons entailed a long, harsh commute by rail and on foot from his family home in the western rural outskirts of Rio de Janeiro to the teacher's home in the hills of Santa Teresa. Given Bonfá's extraordinary dedication and talent for the guitar, Sávio excused the youngster's inability to pay for his lessons.

Bonfá first gained widespread exposure in Brazil in 1947 when he was featured on Rio's Rádio Nacional, then an important showcase for up-and-coming talent. He was a member of the vocal group Quitandinha Serenaders in the late 1940s. Some of his compositions were recorded and performed by Brazilian crooner Dick Farney in the 1950s. It was through Farney that Bonfá was introduced to Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, the leading songwriting team behind the worldwide explosion of Brazilian jazz/pop music in the late 1950s and 1960s. Bonfá collaborated with these and with other prominent Brazilian musicians and artists in productions of de Moraes' anthological play Orfeu da Conceição, which several years later gave origin to Marcel Camus' legendary film "Black Orpheus" (Orfeu Negro in Portuguese). In the burgeoning days of Rio de Janeiro's thriving jazz scene, it was commonplace for musicians, artists, and dramatists to collaborate in such theatrical presentations. Bonfá wrote some of the original music featured in the film, including the numbers "Samba de Orfeu" and his most famous composition, "Manhã de Carnaval" (of which Carl Sigman later wrote a different set of English lyrics titled "A Day in the Life of a Fool"), which has been among the top ten standards played worldwide, according to The Guinness Book of World Records.

As a composer and performer, Bonfá was at heart an exponent of the bold, lyrical, lushly orchestrated, and emotionally charged samba-canção style that predated the arrival of João Gilberto's more refined and subdued bossa nova style. Jobim, João Donato, Dorival Caymmi, and other contemporaries were also essentially samba-canção musicians until the sudden, massive popularity of the young Gilberto's unique style of guitar playing and expressively muted vocals transformed the music of the day into the music of the future. Camus' film and Gilberto's and Jobim's collaborations with American jazzmen such as Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd did much to bring Brazilian popular music to the attention of the world, and Bonfá became a highly visible ambassador of Brazilian music in the United States beginning with the famous November 1962 Bossa Nova concert at New York's Carnegie Hall.

Luiz Bonfá worked with American musicians such as Quincy Jones, George Benson, Stan Getz, and Frank Sinatra, recording several albums while in United States. Elvis Presley sang a Bonfá composition, "Almost in Love", in the 1968 MGM film "Live a Little, Love a Little".
Bonfá died in Rio de Janeiro on January 12, 2001. He was 78 years old.

Best films

Black Orpheus (1959)
(Sound)

Usually with

Marcel Camus
Marcel Camus
(1 films)
Lech Majewski
Lech Majewski
(1 films)
Ruy Guerra
Ruy Guerra
(1 films)
Breno Mello
Breno Mello
(2 films)
Daniel Filho
Daniel Filho
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Luiz Floriano Bonfá (6 films)

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Actor

Copacabana Palace, 2h7
Directed by Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Sylva Koscina, Walter Chiari, Mylène Demongeot, Claude Rich, Paolo Ferrari, Luiz Floriano Bonfá
Roles lui-même
Rating51% 2.597432.597432.597432.597432.59743
À Rio de Janeiro, au Copacabana Palace, durant trois jours, chassés-croisés amoureux s'emmêlent avec petites combines sur fond de festivités du célèbre carnaval. Trois (sympathiques) complices se voient devancés sur un coup dans la salle des coffres de l'hôtel ; trois charmantes hôtesses de l'air cherchent à se divertir, mais leurs trois hôtes cariocas, les musiciens Tom Jobim, Luiz Bonfá et João Gilberto sont mariés ; un homme (Claude Rich), séparé de sa femme, veut surprendre celle-ci en flagrant délit d'adultère.

Sound

Prisoner of Rio, 1h44
Directed by Lech Majewski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman, Peter Firth, Florinda Bolkan, Desmond Llewelyn, José Wilker
Rating56% 2.820042.820042.820042.820042.82004
After escaping from Wandsworth prison for his part in the Great Train Robbery, Ronald "Ronnie" Biggs (Paul Freeman) goes on the run to Rio de Janeiro and becomes the world's most wanted man. Hot on his trail however is committed copper Jack McFarland (Steven Berkoff), who will stop at nothing to bring him back to justice - even if that means stepping outside the law.
The Hours of Love, 1h50
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ugo Tognazzi, Emmanuelle Riva, Barbara Steele, Umberto D'Orsi, Mara Berni, Brunello Rondi
Rating62% 3.1326453.1326453.1326453.1326453.132645
Gianni et Maretta vivent une relation amoureuse intense depuis trois ans et décident de se marier. Le mariage change radicalement leur vie et leurs rapports se dégradent. La vie commune et la routine quotidienne mettent en berne leur passion et limitent la liberté respective car leurs centres d'intérêt sont différents et difficilement conciliables. Le couple se perd dans des tentatives maladroites de tromperie pour finalement se rendre compte que leur amour reste intact, bien que mis à mal par la vie commune. Ainsi, afin de sauver leur rapport, ils décident de retourner à leur statut de fiancés, fait de rencontres amoureuses en restant chacun chez soi.
Black Orpheus, 1h45
Directed by Marcel Camus
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Carnaval, Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on plays, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Léa Garcia, Marcel Camus
Rating73% 3.695853.695853.695853.695853.69585
A marble Greek bas relief explodes to reveal black men dancing the samba to drums in a favela. Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn) arrives in Rio de Janeiro, and takes a trolley driven by Orfeu (Breno Mello). New to the city, she rides to the end of the line, where Orfeu introduces her to the station guard, Hermes (Alexandro Constantino), who gives her directions to the home of her cousin Serafina (Léa Garcia).