Luciano Perrone

Luciano Perrone is considered by many as the father of Brazilian drumming. He was the first to record a samba on the snare drums, and helped his longtime collaborator, Radamés Gnattali, to renovate the Brazilian orchestrating style by using more space for the drums. The son of conductor Luís Perrone and pianist Noêmia Franklin Batista Perrone, he started to take music lessons very early with his father, and, at seven, as a choir soloist, performed with Enrico Caruso and Gilda Dallarizza in the opera Lodoletta. At 14, he started to play professionally at the Cinema Odeon. Soon,...