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Influenced by Baden Powell, successful composer/producer/instrumentalist Celso Fonseca started in music at 12, having learned the guitar. At 19, he decided to dedicate himself to music as a profession, being invited to join Gilberto Gil's band in 1981, with which Fonseca played throughout Brazil and in several other countries. Fonseca also has played and recorded with Chico Buarque, Djavan, Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Elza Soares, Marisa Monte, João Bosco, Jorge Benjor, Leila Pinheiro, Simone, and others. His resumé includes several international tours, four performances at the Montreux Fest (Switzerland) and other festivals around Europe, Canada, U.S., and Japan. In 1986, he became a producer, working for Vinícius Cantuária. Fonseca also produced Gil's O Eterno Deus Mu Dança, Daúde's debut album (that brought him the Sharp Prize as the best pop/rock arranger of 1996), the two first solo albums by Virgínia Rodrigues, six tracks of Leo Gandelman's Brazilian Soul, and G...