found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Brown, Carlinhos; Antonio Carlos Santos de Freitas; James Brown; composer, arranger, Afro-Brazilian musician, singer; born 1963 in Salvador, state of Bahia, Brazil; received early training from a local percussionist known as Pintado de Bongó; inspired by African American Soul Music of the 1970s, adopted a stage name James Brown; played percussion for Bahian pop celebrities such as Luiz Caldas, Moraes Moreira, and Caetano Veloso, whose recording of Brown's tune "Meia-lua inteira" achieved mass popularity (1980s); collaborated with Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter on Bahia Black: Ritual Beating System; colaborated with Sérgio Mendes on his Grammy Award-winning Brasileiro; worked with Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura on Roots (1990s); founded Timbalada, the percussion-based pop group (1990s); recorded his first CD, Alfagamabetizado, an aesthetically and technically superb fusion of Afro-Bahian percussion, northeastern folk, and international pop (1996))
