Guilherme Franco

Guilherme Franco was born November 25, 1946 in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a percussionist in the jazz and World fusion music genres.

Franco has performed on the albums of many notable jazz musicians such as McCoy Tyner, Lonnie Liston Smith, Don Pullen and Woody Shaw. He was a member of Keith Jarrett's "American Band" and Paul Winter's Consort.

In 1981 he started a samba school in NYC and a power samba group called "Pe De Boi" (a Brazilian slang term for a good musician, literally meaning "foot of the bull"). As a result he began playing many gigs in the NYC underground scene of the 1980s with the likes of David Byrne and David Johansen among many others. Franco has also been employed by long time friend, drummer and cinema executive Richard Baratta to work in the film industry in New York.

Franco currently resides in São Paulo, Brazil and is said to practice music 14 hours a day.

Discography

In 1998 he recorded the solo album Capoeira: Legendary Music of Brazil, as leader, on the Lyrichord record label, on which album he plays most of the instruments.

He has appeared on at least one album a year in most years since 1972, as shown in the table below.^[1]

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