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Ed Motta (born Rio de Janeiro , 17 August 1971), is a Brazilian Música Popular Brasileira|MPB , Rock (music)|rock , soul music , funk and jazz musician. He is nephew of late Brazilian singer Tim Maia .
His musical career started as vocalist of the hard rock band Kabbalah.cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1448_thejury/page20.shtml|title=The Global Panel|publisher=BBC.co.uk|accessdate=13 January 2008 though his first album was with the band Conexao Japeri in 1988. In 1990, Motta departed to begin his solo career, recording his debut Um Contrato Com Deus , where he played almost all the instruments by himself. Since then he has released several solo albums. In 1997 he supplied to the soundtrack to the film, Pequeno Dicionário Amoroso (The Book of Love).
In 1999, he translated Phil Collins 's songs for the Disney film Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan into Portuguese language|Portuguese (Brazilian version).
His album Aystelum was nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards of 2006 in the Latin jazz category.
His work covers a variety of genres utilising influences from jazz to popular Brazilian music, rock to Hollywood film soundtracks, Funk (music)|funk , classical music , bossa nova and reggae .
A noted record collector, Motta has over 30,000 records.Cite news|newspaper=Wax Poetics|year = 2006|date=AUG/SEP|url = http://waxpoetics.com/|publisher= Wax Poetics |postscript=
Selected discography
Conexao Japeri (WEA) 1988
Um Contrato Com Deus (WEA) 1990
Entre e Ouça (WEA) 1992
Ao Vivo (live) (WEA) 1993
Manual Pratico Para Festas, Bailes E Afins, Vol.1 (Universal) 1997
As Segundas Intenções (Universal) 2000
Dwitza (Universal) 2002
Poptical (Trama) 2003
Aystelum 2005
Ao Vivo (live) (Trama) 2006
Chapter 9 (Trama) 2008
Piquenique (Trama) 2009
External links
http://www2.uol.com.br/edmotta/html/eng/home.html Official Ed Motta site
http://cliquemusic.uol.com.br/en/artists/Artists.asp? Status=ARTISTA& Nu_Artista=190 All Brazilian Music Profile
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