Marcelo Tupinamba (Fernando Álvarez Lobo), composer and instrumentalist, was born in Tietê, SP, 29.05.1889 and died in São Paulo SP, 7.4.1953. Son of Eduardo Lobo, conductor of the Banda Santissima Trindade in Tietê, and nephew of Maestro Elias Lobo, he moved to São Paulo as a young boy, where he attended elementary school. After graduating in civil engineering, he discovered that his true calling was music, and from childhood he showed an inclination for music, learning the piano by ear and, later, the violin with Savino de Benedictis. While attending high school in Pouso Alegre MG, he mastered several instruments and even led the local orchestra. From that moment on, he pursued a career as a composer that achieved international fame, with over 1,200 melodies, of which six hundred have been published and recorded. In 1907, at the age of only 15, he performed in several cities in São Paulo, accompanying on the piano the famous flutist Patapio Silva, who was touring on his way to the south. In 1914, as a student at the Escola Politecnico di São Paulo, he achieved his first successes by writing songs for the magazine São Paulo Futuro, Danton Vampre. At that time, he took the pseudonym Marcelo Tupínamba, under which he published a series of compositions: the tango Pierro, Xodo (with J. Taful), Viola cantadera (with Arlindo Leal), the song of the fox O Cigano (with João do Sul) and the caterete O matuto (with C. Costa). Having established himself as a composer of country-inspired melodies, his compositions were published by São Paulo publishers and initially distributed through musical theater. The magazines Cenas da roca and Flor do sertao, both by Arlindo Leal, included hits such as Tristeza de Caboclo (with Arlindo Leal) and Maricota, Sai da Rain. Tristeza de Caboclo (Sadness of Caboclo - 1916) is a tanguinho, the first song that Marcelo Tupínamba wrote under contract with Campassi & Camin, a São Paulo publisher. With verses by Arlindo Leal, it became an instant bestseller, selling a phenomenal 120,000 copies for piano in one year.#AntonioSinopoli #MarceloTupinamba #AndreyShilov #TristezaDeCaboclo #FernandoAlvarezLobo #Tanguinho #ArlindoLeal #classicalguitar #guitar #UkrainianGuitarists #GuitarVirtuosos #rare #BrazilianGuitarMusic #LatinamericanGuitarMusic #Dnipro