Jards Macalé

Jards Anet da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, March 3, 1943), known as Macalé, is a Brazilian composer, singer and actor, known for his influential role in Brazil's tropicália movement in the 1960s.

He studied piano and orchestration with Guerra Peixe, cello with Peter Dauelsberg, guitar with Turibio Santos and Jodacil Damasceno, and musical analysis with Esther Scliar.

Macalé is the author of songs like "Vapor Barato" [pt], Angel exterminated, Mal Secreto, the Movement Boats, Rua Real Grandeza, Highness, Star Hotel, Poem of the Rose.

We had as Capinam partners, Waly Salomão, Torquato Neto, Nana Vasconcelos, Xico Chaves, Jorge Mautner, Glauber Rocha and even Abel Silva, Vinicius de Morais, Fausto Nile.

Among the interpreters of his songs are Gal Costa ( "Hotel of the Stars" and "cheap Steam"), Maria Bethania ( "exterminated Angel" and "boats Movement"), Clara Nunes ( "The more-than-perfect") Venus Shirt ( "Gotham City") and O Rappa ( "Vapor Barato"), among others.

Although he's also collaborated with the likes of Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, he has since walked away from these partnerships, claiming that tropicalism as a movement has been co-opted by the culture industry, losing its artistic independence.