Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro and stunts (known as "malabarismo"). Soon Carlinhos was performing professionally, working with most important musicians and composers in Rio. In 1966, Brazil held a national contest to find the country’s best pandeiro player. Carlinhos out-performed 500 other players to win the first ‘Golden Tambourine’ award, thereby becoming known as "Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro". With this recognition, Carlinhos represented Brazil in performances before the Japanese royal family, the Swedish royal family, and also in a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip of England. Carlinhos has had a wide-ranging career as a percussionist, appearing in Brazilian films, on Brazilian
Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil McCann makes note of the potential critiques about his research in the introduction about this research. The reader will note that McCann's analysis concentrates overwhelmingly on the music produced in Rio de Janeiro and not in other cities in Brazil. This is where he is able to discuss audience interpretation, and the primary audience is the metropolitan Brazilian. This is unavoidable: through the period, Rio was the bureaucratic and cultural capital of the nation, home to the principal recording studios and the most powerful radio stations. Review by Frederick Moehn in the "Latin American Music Review" 28 (2007): 309-315. Review