DJ Greg Schools Y'all on Some Wilson Simonal

DJ Greg Caz, a.k.a. my buddy Greg Casseus, has written an informative-yet-entertaining piece about the late, great Wilson Simonal (1939-2000). And who was Simonal (some of) you ask? He was one of the best-selling and most talented Brazilian musicians of the '60s and '70s, an inventor of a whole new genre of Brazilian music called "pilantragem," (which roughly translates as "piracy") and probably best known in the U.S. (especially recently) for his "Nem Vem Que Nao Tem" (from the City of God soundtrack).

And as Greg writes in his article, "The Saga of Wilson Simonal," for quarterly magazine Wax Poetics (issue #8):

The Wilson Simonal saga is among the most intriguing ever to occur within the context Brazilian pop culture. King of the world one moment, eliminated from the history books the next, his life story reads like a screenplay, but was all too real. It involves music, money, race, politics, ostracism and eventual posthumous redemption.

I know you want to read more. I certainly do. Unfortunately, you cannot read the article online, but must do things the old-fashioned way and buy a copy of the magazine at one of the following great NYC record shops: Turntable Lab, Fat Beats, The Sound Library, Other Music, Etherea, or Halcyon (in Brooklyn). See ya at the record store!

P.S.: Turns out you can also purchase the magazine online at the always lovely Dusty Groove site.