Célio de Carvalho
 (Percussion)

Celio spiller perkusjon på å sju av sporene.

Celio De Carvalho
16. februar 1959
celioperc2@c2i.net

Célio was born in Rio de Janeiro on the february 16 - 1959 in a family of clasical musicians. As he says he dosn't remember when he started to play drums "ever, since I remember it has always being a drum around me".

At the age of ten he studed clarinet in the musickorps the Colegio Salesianos Santa Rosa under the direction of Mestre Afonso dos Reis.
Playing Capoeira and Samba on the streets he got the contact with some of the brasilians rithms.
At the age of 16 he started to join local groups at the trap drums. He played with inumerous local groups in a intense activity carying his drums in the busses around Rio going from reharsel to reharsel, from gig to gig in a unexausting marathon.

Three years later started a clasical percussion studie at Instituto Villa Lobos under leading of Edgar Nunes Roca and Hugo Tagning, five years in the conservatorium ended up in a meeting with Hermeto Pascoal...he abandoned school five months before getting his diplom.
" Hermeto gave me, in a couple of months, much more then what I got in five years in the school".
In 1983 he was invited to teach samba in Oslo for the norwegian Karneval. He was planing to stay one year in Norway but he stayed fifteen.

More than seventy records recorded in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, USA, Germany, Brasil, Danmark and Russia. Seven of this records have got the Spelemanns Pris, the norwegian Grammy. Celio has performed/ recorded with inumerous groups and artists, to name some:
The Talisman Group, Trio de Janeiro, Jørn Hoel, Jan Eggun, Øystein Sunde, Nuku, Jon Christensens Bestilingsverk, Tone Hulbækmo and Hans Frederik Jakobsen, Kalenda Maya, Håkon Grafs Grafitti, Geir Lystrup, David Chocron Sissel Kirkjebø, Oslo Gospel Choir ( Norway), Mezzoforte, Gaia ( Iceland), Phip Hamilton, Full Circle ( USA), Artur Maia, Robertinho Silva ( Brasil), Bye Bye Brasil ( Netherlands) Oleg Kireyev ( Russia)and more.

Actually he has a duo with the moust celebrated drummer of Brasil, Robertinho Silva and take part in this groups: Combonations, Zanza, Philip Hamiltons band, Oleg Kireyevs band Claudio Dauelsberg Quartet, to name a fell. He is also doing a filantropic work with kids in two favelas i Rio de Janeiro Célio is touring the world in a constant inexausting activitty.

He has got a big repetation in Russia where he has performed couple of times with his own group.
Courses, clinics or workshops: Music Høyskolen - Oslo, Latin Jazz Festival - Finland. Slagverk Festival - Stokholm, Bergen Harrmonien ( Filarmonic Orquestra) - Bergen, and much more.
In 1996 he released his solo album Avenida Brasil sponsed by Norsk Kasett- avgifts Fond and Fond For Utøvende Kunstnere.
Célio works for the norwegian state organization Rikskonsertene for fifteen years traveling the wole country playing for children.