Canal Acervo Chico Science

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Francisco de Assis França (March 13, 1966 - February 2, 1997), better known as Chico Science, was a Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the Mangue Beat cultural movement. He died in a car accident in 1997 in Recife, Pernambuco, at the age of 30.
Francisco de Assis França was born in the Rio Doce, neighbourhood of Olinda, in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil's Northeast, as a little boy he would sell crabs that he caught himself in the city's mangrove swamps.

He became the lead singer and major creative driving force of the groundbreaking Mangue Bit band called Chico Science & Nação Zumbi (CSNZ). Influenced by such musicians as James Brown, Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Blow, their music cleverly fused rock, funk, and hip hop with maracatu and other traditional rhythms of Brazil's Northeast. Chico had a powerful stage presence that was compared by some to that of Jimi Hendrix.

Before CSNZ, Chico was a member of the bands Orla Orbe and Loustal (the latter named after the French comic book artist and cartoonist Jacques de Loustal).

Around 1991, Chico Science, along with singer Fred 04 of the band Mundo Livre S/A, founded the Mangue Bit cultural movement in response to dire economic and cultural stagnation in Recife and Olinda. CSNZ made their US debut at New York's Central Park SummerStage in 1995, opening for Gilberto Gil, with whom he collaborated during the encore. While in NY, they also performed additional shows at CBGB's, SOB's and at Bryant Park as part of the JVC Jazz Festival, on a bill with the Ohio Players.

Chico Science & Nação Zumbi toured several times in Europe and brought massive attention to the new generation of Brazilian artists in the 1990s. With only two full albums released during his lifetime 'Da Lama Ao Caos' ('From Mud To Chaos) and 'Afrociberdelia' (as well as a postuhumous double CD of remixes and live recordings "CSNZ'), his influence and vision became the foundation to a whole new generation of musicians in Brazil. Chico's genius was to celebrate the rich and fascinating local culture of his home state of Pernambuco and fused it with all the modern global trends of the 1990s - Computers, Mud, Misery, Cyberspace, Hip Hop and roots music co-existed peacefully in Chico's world.

In 1996, Chico Science contributed Maracatu Atômico along with Nação Zumbi to the AIDS-Benefit Album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Nação Zumbi have continued to record and tour internationally after Chico's death.

World Tours:

1º Album: Da Lama ao Caos (1994)

From Mud to Chaos World Tour 1995 (EUA, Bélgica, Suíça, Alemanha e Holanda)

Junho:

18- Central Park Summerstage -- Nova York -- USA

21- S.O.B.´s -- Nova York -- USA

24- Cheetah Club -- Miami -- USA

25- JVC Jazz Festival -- Nova York -- USA

27- CBGB's -- Nova York -- USA

30- Viva Brasil Festival -- Bruxelas -- Bélgica

Julho:

01- Tubinger Festival -- Tubingen -- Alemanha

08- Montreux Jazz Festival -- Suíça

13- Kuz Sommer 95 -- Mainz -- Alemanha

14- KFZ Club -- Marburg -- Alemanha

21- Live Music Hall -- Köln -- Alemanha

22- Paradiso -- Amsterdan -- Holanda

27- Marquee -- Hamburg -- Alemanha

28- Kultursommer -- Oldenburg -- Alemanha

30- Sfinks Festival -- Boechout -- Bélgica

Agosto:

02- Heimatklänge Festival -- Berlin -- Alemanha

03- Heimatklänge Festival -- Berlin -- Alemanha

04- Heimatklänge Festival -- Berlin -- Alemanha

05- Heimatklänge Festival -- Berlin -- Alemanha

06- Heimatklänge Festival -- Berlin -- Alemanha

2º Album: Afrociberdelia (1996)

Afrocyberdelia World Tour 1996 (EUA, Bélgica, Suíça, França, Dinamarca, Alemanha e Holanda )

Julho:

10- Kaufleuten -- Zurich -- Suíça

11 e 12- Festival de la Cité -- Lausanne -- Suíça

13- Brugge -- Bélgica

14- Dour -- Bélgica

15- Nijmegen -- Holanda

18- Amsterdan -- Holanda

19- Hamburg -- Alemanha

20- Berlim -- Alemanha

21- Karlsruhe -- Alemanha

22- KUZ Sommer -- Mainz -- Alemanha

26- Erlagen -- Alemanha

27- Forestglade Festival -- Wisen -- Suíça

Agosto:

9- Wallersdorf Festival -- Wallersdorf -- Alemanha

10- Festival Boom Boom -- Villars -- Suíça

12- Marciac -- França

15- Hamelin -- Alemanha

16- Kol- Alemanha

17- Hannover -- Alemanha

-- Um admirador desse gênio da música brasileira.
-- An admirer of this genius of Brazilian music.