Nelson Faria is a Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian guitar player.

Biography

Started his guitar lessons with Sidney Barros (Gamela) in Brasilia

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

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At the age of 19 moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 and studied at the G.I.T. (Guitar Institute of Technology) with Frank Gambale

Frank Gambale

Frank Gambale is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He has released eleven studio albums over a period of more than two decades, and is renowned for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques.-Recording career:...

, Joe Pass

Joe Pass

Joe Pass was an Italian-American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century...

 and Scott Henderson

Scott Henderson

Scott Henderson is a fusion and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Tribal Tech.-Early days:Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Henderson began playing guitar at an early age...

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He has played and recorded with João Bosco

João Bosco

João Bosco de Freitas Mucci, better known as João Bosco is a noted Brazilian singer-songwriter with a distinctive style as a guitarist...

, Ivan Lins

Ivan Lins

Ivan Guimarães Lins is a Latin Grammy winning Brazilian musician. He has been an active performer and songwriter of Brazilian popular music and jazz for over 30 years. His first hit, Madalena, was recorded by Elis Regina in 1970. Beyond his own performance of his compositions, Simone is his most...

, Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Gonzalo Rubalcaba is a Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz pianist and composer.Gonzalo Julio Gonzalez Fonseca was born in Havana, Cuba, May 27, 1963, into a musical family rich in the traditions of the country’s artistic past...

, Lisa Ono

Lisa Ono

Lisa Ono is a popular Japanese-Brazilian bossa nova singer.- Biography :Lisa Ono was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10...

, Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento

-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

, Edu Lobo

Edu Lobo

Eduardo de Góes "Edu" Lobo is a Brazilian bossa nova singer, guitarist, and composer. He achieved fame in the 1960s as part of the bossa nova movement...

, Cássia Eller

Cássia Eller

Cássia Rejane Eller was a Brazilian musician. She performed a fusion of rock and MPB.- Biography :After spending most of her adolescence in Brasília, Eller dropped out of high school and returned to her birthplace of Rio de Janeiro, where she began a career as a recording artist...

, Jerzy Milewski, Paulo Moura

Paulo Moura

Paulo Moura was a Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist....

, Toninho Horta

Toninho Horta

Toninho Horta is a virtuoso electric and nylon-string guitar player; his music could be defined as Brazilian music.He has developed his own very personal style...

, Antonio Adolfo, Carlos Malta, Fatima Guedes

Fátima Guedes

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, Leila Pinheiro

Leila Pinheiro

Leila Pinheiro is a Brazilian Bossa Nova singer, pianist and composer. Her self-titled debut album had the guest performances of Tom Jobim, João Donato, Ivan Lins, Francis Hime, and Toninho Horta, and she later went on to perform with great names such as Zimbo Trio, Pat Metheny, Baden Powell,...

, Nivaldo Ornelas, Ana Caram

Ana Caram

Ana Caram is a Brazilian singer, guitarist and flutist best known for her bossa nova music. Caram was born in São Paulo to a family versed in musical expression. She graduated from São Paulo University with a degree in musical composition and conducting...

, Mauricio Einhorn, Nico Assumpção

Nico Assumpção

Nico Assumpção , was a Brazilian bass player.-Biography:...

 and Wagner Tiso

Wagner Tiso

Wagner Tiso Veiga is a musician, arranger, conductor, pianist and composer from Brazil.-Biography:Tiso learned music theory with Paulo Moura and specialised in keyboards. In 1970, he joined Som Imaginário, working with Milton Nascimento. Tiso and Nascimento were then together in Clube da Esquina,...

, among others, and is part of Nosso Trio.

Nelson has played at the most important jazz festivals around the world, including Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious in Europe; it is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva...

, Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival

Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival

Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival is one of the largest jazz festivals in the world and arguably the biggest in in the Southern Hemisphere, held in Jakarta, Indonesia. The annual jazz festival is held every early March and was designed to be one of the largest jazz festivals globally...

, North Sea Jazz Festival

North Sea Jazz Festival

The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam...

, Montreal International Jazz Festival.

Discography

• Ioiô (1993) Perfil Musical
• Beatles, um tributo Brasileiro (1998) Solo Music
• Janelas Abertas (1999) Lumiar Discos
• Tres/Three (2000) Independente
• Nelson Faria (2003) Independente
• Vento Bravo (2005) Independente
• Nosso trio ao Vivo (2006) DVD Independente
• Buxixo (2009) Delira Musica
• Leila Pinheiro, Banda Pequi e Nelson Faria (2010) UFG
• Nelson Faria & Frankfurt Radio Bigband Live in Frankfurt (2011)

Books

• 1991 - A Arte da Improvisação (Lumiar Editora)
• 1995 - The Brazilian Guitar Book (Sher Music)
• 1999 - Acordes, Arpejos e Escalas (Lumiar Editora)
• 2002 - Inside The Brazilian Rhythm Section (Sher Music)
• 2008 - Toque Junto Bossa Nova (Lumiar Editora)
• 2009 - Harmonia Aplicada ao Violão e à Guitarra (Técnicas em Chord Melody)