Baden Powell (guitarist)

Baden Powell de Aquino, known professionally as Baden Powell, was a Brazilian guitarist. He combined classical techniques with popular harmony and swing. He performed in many styles, including bossa nova, samba, Brazilian jazz, Latin jazz and MPB. He performed on stage during most of his lifetime. Powell composed many pieces for guitar, such as Abração em Madrid, Braziliense, Canto de Ossanha, Casa Velha, Consolação, Horizon, Imagem, Lotus, Samba, Samba Triste, Simplesmente, Tristeza e Solidão, and Samba da Benção. He released Os Afro-sambas, a watershed album in MPB, with Vinicius de Moraes in 1966.

6 August 1937

Born on the same birth date (6 August 1937): Barbara Windsor • Charlie Haden

Born on the same birth day (6 August): Anna Haining Bates • Daryl Somers • David McLetchie • Frank Nicklin • Herb Moford • Jean-Baptiste Bessières • Johann Bernoulli • Leanne Crichton • Leslie Odom Jr. • Lorna Fitzsimons • Louise de La Vallière • Maria Ludwika Bernhard • Michelle Yeoh • Norman Granz • Richard C. Miller • Richard Hofstadter

Born in the same month (August 1937): Al D'Amato • Andrei Konchalovsky • Boris Rõtov • Bruce McLaren • David Anderson (British Columbia politician) • David Bedford • David Behrman • Gustavo Noboa • Sheila Varian • Susan Sheehan • Zoltán Berczik