Irio
De Paula
A carioca Brazilian, and therefore a man from
Rio de Janeiro, Irio De Paula is one of the maestros
of rare and personal talent in the current musical
scenario. A maestro with an extremely personal
and enviable style, in which his manual agility
is placed at the service of his interpretative
inspiration and the extreme impulsiveness and
spontaneity of his touch, he is an artist far
from any kind of narcissism, the untiring explorer
of the six strings, the rhythms, the phrasing,
the composition as well as his own roots. This
has always allowed him to play not only traditional
pieces but also new ones within one single, uninterrupted
musical essay without interrupting its continuity.
His success over a forty year period (in the Seventies
the way he played the guitar caused a real shock
among the guitarists of the times in Italy) also
bears witness to the absolute and increasing need
and pleasure audiences experience in being able
to listen to sincere and genuine music, not artificial
or created in a workshop, but dynamic and with
no score. Irio De Paula, “the black son
of Vinicius de Moraes”, has performed with
the most important composers and with all the
greatest performers in the world of jazz.
