Mario Adnet

Mário Adnet gained wider international attention beginning in the 1990s, after an extensive roster of performers that stretched from Tom Jobim through Joyce to Leny Andrade had already committed his compositions and arrangements to disc. Formal music-theory lessons began for him in 1974. After finishing secondary school in the United States he relocated to Austria, where he pursued further training at the Vienna School of Music. Between 1977 and 1979 he collaborated closely with Cláudio Nucci. The following year he issued his debut recording alongside pianist and composer Alberto Rosenblit. In 1981 he reached the finals of TV Globo’s MPB 81 competition, and through 1982 he worked as an arranger for Polygram. Starting in 1983 he supplied arrangements for numerous artists, among them Joyce, Vinícius Cantuária, and Cláudio Nucci. His second album, the independent release Planeta Azul from 1984, received an award from the Independent Producers Association. In 1990 Joyce, Lisa Ono, Clara Sandroni, Leny Andrade, and Trio da Paz introduced several of his songs across the United States, Europe, and Japan. That same year Tom Jobim included Adnet’s arrangement of Dorival Caymmi’s “Maracangalha” on his final album, Antonio Brasileiro, which earned a Grammy. Adnet shared the stage in Miami in 1994 with Djavan and Jorge Ben Jor. Also in 1994 his own album Pedra Bonita appeared in Japan, featuring guest appearances by Tom Jobim, Joyce, Paulo Moura, Ivan Lins, Lisa Ono, and his sister Maúcha Adnet; the next year he toured multiple Japanese cities with Ono. His score for the film Buena Sorte, centered on Tânia Lamarca, captured first prize at the II Brazilian Film Festival of Miami in 1998.