An accordion and guitar pair who turned regional traditions into national hits in the 1980s.
If you want to hear what they were about, start with 'Toque de Gaita' or 'Bailes do Eco'. Those tracks have that raw, regional feel they built their name on.
They gave a voice to the sounds of southern Brazil at a time when those styles weren't always heard nationally. Their version of 'Deu Saudade' broke through in the early '80s, and songs like 'Toque de Gaita' and 'Bailes do Eco' kept that regional pulse alive on radio. They weren't just revivalists; they kept rehearsing through financial struggles and later tweaked their sound, which drew some criticism but showed they were still moving.
Délcio Tavares and Luiz Carlos Borges, who went by Bonitinho, started playing together in the late 1970s. Their 1983 album 'Deu Saudade' made them known across Brazil, followed by releases like 'Toca Bonitinho' and 'Fronteiras'. They worked as a duo for years, with Tavares on accordion and Borges on guitar and vocals.
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