- Trio elétrico
Trio Elétrico (meaning literally 'electric trio') is a kind of
truck equipped with a high power sound system and a music group on top of it, playing for the crowd. It was created inBahia specifically forCarnival and it is now used in similar events in other districts and countries. This setup is used inBrazilian Carnival inside the "blocos carnavalescos" and other many festivals inBrazil , specially at "micareta s" . The idea was introduced in1949 onBahia carnival by the pair "Dodô e Osmar" (Adolfo Nascimento and Osmar Macedo).Some Brazilian artists had been known singing in a "Trio" as
Elba Ramalho ,Daniela Mercury ,Ivete Sangalo ,Cláudia Leitte ,Carlinhos Brown (fromTimbalada ),Asa de Águia andChiclete com Banana . The popular Brazilian singerCaetano Veloso poetized the Trio Elétrico in the song "Atrás do Trio Elétrico só não vai quem já morreu" - "The only ones not going behind the Trio Elétrico are those who are already dead".History
The origins of the trio elétrico come from the "electric pair", friends Adolfo Antônio Nascimento (known as Dodô) and Osmar Álvares de Macêdo, who decided to fix an old
Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and the Flivver). On that same year's Carnival, they drove through the streets playing music amplified by speaker boxes. The performance took place at the city centre at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and a huge crowd followed them.The name "trio elétrico" came up in 1951 when, for the first time, the electric partners invited a fellow musician to perform with them, the architect Temístocles Aragão. They played through
Salvador in aChrysler pick-up car. That is how the electric pair became the electric trio. Though the name was created for the band, it ended up being the name of their invention.Another invention from Bahia, the
micaretas (some kind of Carnival out of season) began using the trios. Today, there is a huge industry for the production, maintenance and rent of trios. Many new artists are discovered on trios.In the year of 1983, a trio built in
Italy was inaugurated inPiazza Navona in the presence of 80 thousand people who danced to the electric sound of Dodô, Osmar and Armandinho. That was the first time a trio was featured out ofBrazil .In 1985, invited by students of the University of
Toulouse , inFrance , Armandinho, Dodô and Osmar travelled once more toEurope to take some of Carnival to more than 100 thousand people in Toulouse.The trio is known worldwide as one of the symbols of Brazilian culture, its music, its Carnival and its partying.
External links
*en icon [http://www.trioelectrico.net Trio Electrico at Europe] .
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