Edil Pacheco

Edil Pacheco

From: Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
Style: samba
E-mail: edilpacheco@edilpacheco.com


Anybody remember this record? It was released (in 1988) in the U.S. by Mango -- an imprint of Island Records -- and in Brazil by PolyGram*. It was a collection of music based in the afros and afoxés of Bahia, that music having been composed by Edil Pacheco (together with lyricist Paulo César Pinheiro). Edmilson de Jesus Pacheco (born June 1st, 1945) is one cool dude!

He's from Maragogipe, Bahia (on the other side of the bay, where the Paraguaçu River gives onto the Baia de Todos os Santos), and is a prolific composer of sambas and ijexá-based music, tunes which have been covered by a plethora of Brazilian greats (including a divine songstress whose style dovetailed so neatly with Edil's own -- Clara Nunes).