Badi Assad was born in São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brazil. Her early years were spent in Rio de Janeiro, where the family moved to support and develop the budding talent of her brothers, Sérgio and Odair, the famous classical guitarists ‘Duo Assad’. Watching her brothers’ musical development had its effect, and her introduction to music came at her mother’s urging. “I began to learn piano when I was eight, but all we could afford was a little electronic Yamaha which was made for kids, and I practiced on it until my hands outgrew the keyboards.” Her guitar studies began in earnest at age fourteen, playing with her father, an amateur mandolin player. Within that year, she won her first competition at the “Concurso Jovens Instrumentistas for Young Musicians”, in Rio de Janeiro/1984. In 1994 came her association with the independent label Chesky Records, with her first album, entitled Solo. Her international stature grew with the release of her second album Rhythms in 1995. The album won Guitar Player Magazine’s Readers’ Poll for “Best Classical Album of the Year” In addition, she was voted “Best Acoustic Fingerstyle Player” by Guitar Player magazine’s editors. Assad fulfilled her Chesky contract with 1996’s beautiful anthology of Brazilian guitar composers appropriately entitled Echoes of Brazil. Then in 1997, Badi was quickly signed to her first major label contract with PolyGram. The result is the ambitious and critically acclaimed ethno-pop soundscapes of her sophomore album, Chameleon... READ & HEAR & WATCH HERE--------------> 152 BADI ASSAD preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/07/badi-assad-13-questions.html 151 STEVE CARDENAS preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/07/steve-cardenas-13-questions_5.html 150 MIGUEL BARELLA preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/07/miguel-barella-13-questions.html 149 MICHEL HENRITZI preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/06/michel-henritzi-13-questions.html 148 GIUSEPPE CONTINENZA preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/06/giuseppe-continenza-13-questions.html 147 ARTHUR BULL preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/06/arthur-bull-13-questions.html 146 Eraldo Bernocchi preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/06/eraldo-bernocchi-13-questions.html Complete set of 149 13 qs Questionnaires preparedguitar.blogspot.es/p/descripcion.html Our open Facebook Channel https://facebook/groups/preparedguitar/
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