He was born in Rio de Janeiro, but it was in Minas Gerais where he discovered music at his adoptive parents’ house, where styles from all over the world were heard. He started out playing the accordion (accordion), he tried the harmonica (harmonica), then the guitar, and then came singing. At the age of 13, he was a singer in a dance group in Três Pontas, in the south of the region, and among friends he composed his first songs.
Indigenous music, the popular songs of Minas Gerais, the rock of the Beatles, Bossa Nova, jazz or tropicalism were genres that influenced its growth, marked by prejudice against racism, the military dictatorship and the diversity of the people. Brazilian. Milton Nascimento, better known as Bituca, introduced himself to the world with “Travessia”, a song that won second place at the International Song Festival in 1967, the year he released his first album with the same name.
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Source: Observadora
