Marcos Suzano Marcos Suzano Marcos Suzano (b. 1963) is a Brazilian percussionist, famous for playing with many Brazilian and international musicians, such as Nando Reis and Titãs. He was born in Rio de Janeiro. Originally a rock fan, he experienced a carnaval bloco and became passionate about percussion thereafter. He quickly settled on the pandeiro as his primary instrument after witnessing the artistry of Jorginho do Pandeiro of the choro group Época de Ouro. By the 1990s, Marcos Suzano had become perhaps the most recorded and widely hailed percussionist in Brazil. His technical innovations on pandeiro include an active left hand, which
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