TONY TORNADO - 1972
Tracks:
01.Mané beauty
02. Not my cricket cuca
03. Torniente
04. I doubt very
05. Sincerity
06. You bet, friendship
07. Bet
08. Chubby
09. One idea
10. I have a new sound
11. Tornado
He is already 80 years old, but like other members of our ethnicity, it is not perceived visually - that is still young, that the V Festival of Song, singing BR-3, raised fist, mimicking the attitude of the members of the Black Panthers. Antonio Viana Gomes, or Toni Tornado.
The actor and singer was born on May 26, 1930, in Lookout for Paranapanema, São Paulo, the region now known more by the concentration of settlements of the Landless Movement, led by Jose Reina.
His life changed when at age 11 in 1941 alone resolved, go to Rio de Janeiro, where he was living on the street as a street child. To survive, he earned a few bucks as a shoeshine boy and peanut vendor on the beach and road signs. After a brief visit to a host institution for adolescents in need, ends up enlisting in the Army Brazil, coming to serve in the expedition to the Middle East.
The rapid interaction with American soldiers, Toni begins to sing rock, and soon it is revealed on Radio Mayrink Veiga, the program today is a day of rock. His talent, he soon created the opportunity to join the cast of Brasiliana. During years of international tours, and the passage by the United States, eventually separating the group.
Toni Tornado lived illegally in the United States for three years, and is strongly influenced by the Black Power Movement and James Brown. In New York, the Harlem neighborhood of predominantly black, for lack of opportunity ends up working for traffickers. During this period also meets a Brazilian, who would become famous in the country: Tiao Maconheiro, now known as Tim Maia. But when he buys a Cadillac draws attention of police and eventually arrested and deported to Brazil.
In national soil Toni Tornado is the first clash with the military government - agents of DOPS, scare yourself with the bright colors and their clothes, and her haughty attitude, unusual in african american and holding period of the artist. But his dark knowledge, encourages you to give statements disconnected, leaving the players the image of a black mad. The release, but rather humble.
But would not his first problem with the military dictatorship. In a show of Elis Regina, when she sings the song Black Is Beautiful, takes the stage, dancing with his fist raised, again reminding one attitude Black Power. Police arrest him again and again they try to humiliate him, unable to succeed. The negrão had a strong will and endurance.
In 1972, the theatrical fame leads him to where he plays on TV Tupi novels. Tornado made numerous films, with emphasis on the role of Ganga Zumba in Quilombo directed pro Caca Diegues. At this stage
television, two events have marked: six years of dating the actress Arlete Salles, who was also chased by a black beau. And the role as Rodesio, henchman of the widow and Porcine Roque Santeiro, where Dias Gomes, the novelist, wanted to show a final where the two could be together, but that fear of racial prejudice, did the idea was abandoned.
Recently in an interview the magazine Carta Capital, the old Toni Tornado reborn to criticize even the novels of Rede Globo, where he and other black actors are relegated to minor roles, and stories do not help the self esteem of the black community.
What will mark it is their interpretation of Br-3, with the Tender Trio. An attitude on stage that is lacking in many black singers, rappers except for - someone who takes the color itself. Text
Marco Antonio dos Santos, originally published in the blog Marco Negro
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