A Pentecostal musician whose songs like 'Fonte Universal' drew crowds who knew the words.
For a sense of his sound, 'Fonte Universal' has that gospel-harmony feel. 'Monte Calvário' from the 1985 debut is the one that really caught on.
Crivella's music caught on across Brazil with songs that worked gospel harmonies into contemporary arrangements. 'Fonte Universal' and 'Razão da Minha Vida' kept to biblical themes and personal faith, and his 1985 debut album Monte Calvário included the title track that became widely known. The concerts drew crowds who knew the words.
He came up through Pentecostal church music in Rio de Janeiro and founded what became the Monte Calvário band in the early 1980s. In 2005 he was expelled from the Assemblies of God after embezzlement accusations, though he kept a following who saw him differently.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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