toquinho: toquinho
Toquinho is an all-time classic Brazilian album released in 1970, featuring Jorge Ben on some of its iconic songs - “Que Maravilha”, “Zana” and “Carolina Carol Bela”. Brazilian guitarist and singer Toquinho was born in São Paulo, Brazil in the 1940’s. He has a prolific career releasing a huge number of albums and writing on even more. Some of the most famous came out during the ‘70s with another legend - Vinicius De Moraes.
The album is reissued through one of the worlds best houses for vintage, classic, vinyls: Mr Bongo, is an established bearer for hard-to-find, fantastic Latin music, particularly Brazilian, outside of the Americas. Adding to their eclectic reissue history, Toquinho is reminded and heard in the present with the same passion as it was almost 50 years ago. The musicality, the poems of Toquinho are timeless. Collection material.