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Egberto Gismonti is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist, born in Carmo, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. A self-taught guitarist, he designed guitars with more than six strings.
Egberto Gismonti is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist, born in the small city of Carmo, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, into a musical family. He began piano studies at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music at the age of six and later went to Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger. A self-taught guitarist, he designed guitars with more than six strings. His stay in the Xingu region of the Amazon basin left a lasting mark on recordings such as Dança das Cabeças (1977), an ECM record that received the 1977 Großer Deutscher Schallplattenpreis. In 1978 he founded the label Carmo.