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): Abbey Lincoln • Bobby Petta • Emperor Go-Toba • Francesco Bellotti • Freddie Laker • Helen Jacobs • James Henry Greathead • John Middleton Murry • Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo • Martin Wharton • Mary Ann Sieghart • Melissa George • Mickaël Delage • Piers Anthony • Radhia Cousot • Richard C. Miller • Ron Jones (television director) • Vic Dickenson • Wilmer Flores

Born in the same month (August 1937): Alice Coltrane • Andrei Konchalovsky • Barbara Windsor • Boris Rõtov • Brian G. Marsden • Bruce McLaren • Charlie Haden • Duncan Sharpe • Dustin Hoffman • Ian Deans • James Florio • Jimmy Hannan • Patrick Joseph McGovern • Ron Brierley • Virginia Euwer Wolff