Los Indios Tabajaras

Los Indios Tabajaras – In a Sentimental Mood (1968/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:22 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: World, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Victor – Legacy

Los Indios Tabajaras (The Tabajara Indians) was a guitar duo of two brothers, Antenor Lima and Natalicio (Nato) Lima, from Tianguá, Ceará in the Northeast of Brazil.[1] The group name refers to the Tabajara, indigenous people who lived on the easternmost portion of the Atlantic coast of northeast Brazil in the period before and during Portuguese colonization, in the 16th century…
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Los Indios Tabajaras – Dreams of Love (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:55 minutes | 672 MB | Genre: World, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Los Indios Tabajaras was a guitar duo of two brothers from Ceará, in the Northeast of Brazil.

Probably as early as 1943, RCA’s Latin American arm signed them to a recording contract. In the early 1950s, they took a break from performing and went back to study the guitar. After returning to the stage later that same decade, they released an album in the United States on an RCA-owned label named Vox.

Throughout this period, they had a steady stream of releases on RCA in Mexico and one of these, a Mexican popular tune named “María Elena”, became a steady seller, a success throughout Latin America and was finally released on a single in the U.S. in 1963. It spent 14 weeks on the Hot 100 in the fall of 1963.

RCA released albums by Los Indios Tabajaras into the 1980s.
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Los Indios Tabajaras – What The World Needs Now (1971/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:00 minutes | 985 MB | Genre: World, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Los Indios Tabajaras (The Tabajara Indians) was a guitar duo of two brothers, Antenor Lima and Natalicio (Nato) Lima, from Tianguá, Ceará in the Northeast of Brazil. The group name refers to the Tabajara, indigenous people who lived on the easternmost portion of the Atlantic coast of northeast Brazil in the period before and during Portuguese colonization, in the 16th century…
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Los Indios Tabajaras – Song of the Islands (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:07 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: World, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Los Indios Tabajaras was a guitar duo of two brothers from Ceará, in the Northeast of Brazil.

Probably as early as 1943, RCA’s Latin American arm signed them to a recording contract. In the early 1950s, they took a break from performing and went back to study the guitar. After returning to the stage later that same decade, they released an album in the United States on an RCA-owned label named Vox.

Throughout this period, they had a steady stream of releases on RCA in Mexico and one of these, a Mexican popular tune named “María Elena”, became a steady seller, a success throughout Latin America and was finally released on a single in the U.S. in 1963. It spent 14 weeks on the Hot 100 in the fall of 1963.

RCA released albums by Los Indios Tabajaras into the 1980s…
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Los Indios Tabajaras – Twin Guitars: In a Mood for Lovers (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 28:13 minutes | 953 MB | Genre: Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Certainly the most uncommon duo of Brazilian artists to have a solid international career, Los Índios Tabajaras was formed by the brothers Antenor Moreyra Lima (Muçaperê ) and Natalício Moreyra Lima (Erundi). In the U.S. they had success in the early ’70s with “Sakura-Sakura,” and their biggest hit was the fox trot “Maria Helena,” which won second place at the American charts and sold over one-and-a-half million copies. Their 48 LPs also sold millions of copies worldwide, and they toured South, Central, and North America, Asia, and Europe before settling in the U.S. Their eclectic act gathered Rimsky-Korsakoff, Chopin, De Falla, and Villa-Lobos with folk tunes and originals, performed in tuxedo and also half-naked with Indian ornaments. In the ’60s, they also performed successfully at the San Remo Festival (Italy). Both self-taught musicians, they took their first contact with the violão (guitar) during their journey through the hinterlands of Cariri, Ceará, but had to give it away for a pound of beans. Having both studied music later, Muçaperê was accompanied in the recording of his “Their Very Special Touch” by a full symphonic orchestra and vocal choir.

Indians from the Tabajara tribe, they left Ceará with their people in 1933, traveling on foot the almost 2,000 km to Rio de Janeiro. During the three years spent on the journey, they collected a number of regional musics. In Rio de Janeiro they were registered and baptized by the lieutenant Hildebrando Moreira Lima, from whom they took their Christian names. Their first public performance was in 1945, at the Rádio Cruzeiro do Sul (Rio de Janeiro), when they were introduced as Índios Tabajaras, having been hired by the outing. In 1953, they recorded an album through Continental with the baião “Tambor Índio” and the galope “Acara Cary” (both by Muçaperê ). In the next year they had success with the polka “Pajaro Campaña” (public domain). After recording several other albums, they left in 1957 for a tour through Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico. Having both studied music in the latter, Erundi wrote several classic pieces for guitar during that period . Moving on to the U.S., they performed for three years in that country, and returned to Brazil in 1960. They continued to move around, but ended up back in Brazil in 1968, where they recorded an album of Hawaiian songs; they moved to the U.S. soon afterwards. –Artist Biography by Alvaro Neder

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Los Indios Tabajaras – Their Very Special Touch (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 28:21 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Latin
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Certainly the most uncommon duo of Brazilian artists to have a solid international career, Los Índios Tabajaras was formed by the brothers Antenor Moreyra Lima (Muçaperê) and Natalício Moreyra Lima (Erundi). In the U.S. they had success in the early ’70s with “Sakura-Sakura,” and their biggest hit was the fox trot “Maria Helena,” which won second place at the American charts and sold over one-and-a-half million copies. Their 48 LPs also sold millions of copies worldwide, and they toured South, Central, and North America, Asia, and Europe before settling in the U.S.

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Los Indios Tabajaras – The Very Thought of You (1971/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:54 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Pop, Folk, Latin
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Los Indios Tabajaras (The Tabajara Indians) was a guitar duo of two brothers, Antenor Lima and Natalicio (Nato) Lima, from Tianguá, Ceará in the Northeast of Brazil. The group name refers to the Tabajara, indigenous people who lived on the easternmost portion of the Atlantic coast of northeast Brazil in the period before and during Portuguese colonization, in the 16th century.

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Los Indios Tabajaras – Casually Classic (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:06 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Classical, Guitar
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Certainly the most uncommon duo of Brazilian artists to have a solid international career, Los Índios Tabajaras was formed by the brothers Antenor Moreyra Lima (Muçaperê ) and Natalício Moreyra Lima (Erundi). In the U.S. they had success in the early ’70s with “Sakura-Sakura,” and their biggest hit was the fox trot “Maria Helena,” which won second place at the American charts and sold over one-and-a-half million copies. Their 48 LPs also sold millions of copies worldwide, and they toured South, Central, and North America, Asia, and Europe before settling in the U.S. Their eclectic act gathered Rimsky-Korsakoff, Chopin, De Falla, and Villa-Lobos with folk tunes and originals, performed in tuxedo and also half-naked with Indian ornaments. In the ’60s, they also performed successfully at the San Remo Festival (Italy). Both self-taught musicians, they took their first contact with the violão (guitar) during their journey through the hinterlands of Cariri, Ceará, but had to give it away for a pound of beans. Having both studied music later, Muçaperê was accompanied in the recording of his “Their Very Special Touch” by a full symphonic orchestra and vocal choir.

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Los Indios Tabajaras – Deixa de Tristeza: Folclóre y canciónes de Latino América (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:47 minutes | 370 MB | Genre: World, Folk, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Estela – Tesoros Musicales

Los Indios Tabajaras (The Tabajara Indians) was a guitar duo of two brothers, Antenor Lima and Natalicio (Nato) Lima, from Tianguá, Ceará in the Northeast of Brazil. The group name refers to the Tabajara, indigenous people who lived on the easternmost portion of the Atlantic coast of northeast Brazil in the period before and during Portuguese colonization, in the 16th century…

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