Paulo Bellinati

Violonista (acoustic guitar player) Paulo Bellinati has achieved a precise balance between classical music's sophistication and popular music's spontaneity, without any compromises. In 1988, his composition "Jongo" was awarded and would go on to be recorded by John Williams in 1996. Other famous classical guitarists to record his pieces, which reinvent Brazilian folkloric rhythms from Bellinati's perspective, were fellow Brazilians Carlos Barbosa-Lima and the Duo Assad. As a child, his father taught him how to play the guitar. At 17, he studied at the Conservatório Dramático e...