Levantamento histórico e biográfico do músico Afrânio Girão

Abstract

Afrânio Girão is a renowned artist in the area of popular music. Born in Manaquiri in the interior of the Amazon, he lived for a long time with self-taught musicians who influenced him in his choices. In order to investigate the life of this artist, an interview was conducted with semi-structured questions. The secondary sources were newspapers, magazines, interviews with people he lived with, such as singers and music personalities, as studio owners, restaurants, whose purpose was to raise information from this professional percussive music in Amazonas, to know his life as a musician since the beginning of his profession. It used as a photographic machine research instrument and a recorder The interview revealed that the musician acted as a composer, arrenter, and teaching drums in Manaus. He joined several bands in the Amazonian music scene and also traveled and attended several events inside the Amazon as Fecani. Still in the decade of 90 he met a singer and guitarist from El Salvador, starting his career as a professional in the bars of the city of Manaus. Soon afterwards decided to assemble the band which was called Banda Latina Connection where he went to play in several bars of the city of Manaus. In 2007 he participated in the important Jazz festival that took place in the city of Manaus. He taught drums at two music schools in the city of Manaus, worked in the school Escala, approximately for eight consecutive years. Afrânio performed several works in recording studio, recording drums in LPS and CDs. Among its numerous works include two LPs of the music Festival of Song of Itacoatiara the Fecani.