Eumir Deodato de Almeida is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer of Italian and Portuguese origins born in Rio de Janeiro on June 22, 1943. Deodato was born of Italian-Portuguese parents. He started playing the accordion at the age of twelve and learned to play the piano a couple of years later. He studied to be a conductor and an arranger. He played bossa nova in bands with Durval Ferreira and Roberto Menescal, then formed his own band with Menescal in 1962. He moved to New York in 1967 to work with guitarist Luiz Bonfá and singer Astrud Gilberto. He met record producer Creed Taylor, who hired him to write arrangements for Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Paul Desmond. In the 1970s he was very successful as a keyboard player. Eumir has produced and arranged music on more than 500 albums for artists such as “Kool and the Gang”, “Con Funk Shun”, “Björk”, “Christophe” and “k.d. Lang". Guitarist John Tropea and flautist Hubert Laws collaborated on Deodato's early albums. In 1973 he released his first album entitled "Prelude". The record sold 5 million copies and won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the song Also Sprach Zarathustra and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. His second album, Deodato 2, peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 album chart. The 1979 single "Night Cruiser" earned him his third Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. In 1982 he released the splendid album "Happy Hour" which included the hit song "Keep On Movin'".
Album
1964 - Idéias...
1964 - Samba Nova Concepcao
1964 - Inutil Paisagem
1972 - Percepcao
1973 - Os Catedraticos 73
1973 - Prelude
1973 - Deodato
1973 - Deodato 2
1974 - Artistry
1974 - Whirlwinds
1975 - First Cuckoo
1976 - Daybreak (feat. Best Of Friends)
1976 - Very Together
1977 - Il concerto di Aranjuez
1978 - Love Island
1978 - Noches De Blanco Satén
1979 - Knights Of Fantasy
1980 - Night Cruiser
1982 - Happy Hour
1984 - Motion
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