An acclaimed Brazilian songwriter and performer, Ivan Lins has won a string of
Latin Grammy Awards and had his work recorded by stars such as Ella Fitzgerald,
Michael Bublé, Sting and Barbra Streisand. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he only
started learning piano by ear when was 18-years-old, but was playing small shows
two years later while studying chemical engineering at university. It was from
the mid-1960s that Brazil came under an authoritarian military dictatorship and
art and free speech became censored, but Lins was inspired by the bossa nova,
samba rhythms and soul music that ...