Walter Wanderley & Astrud Gilberto

Walter Wanderley & Astrud Gilberto

Walter Wanderley & Astrud Gilberto

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Walter Wanderley & Astrud Gilberto

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Walter Wanderley was a talented and gifted organist with an acute ear for new harmonies. With 46 recorded solo albums in his entire career, both in Brazil and the U.S., he reached number 26 on the Billboard pop charts in September 1966, opening a large pathway of success only threatened by himself and his complex character. Ten years after his death from cancer, with a new fad coming, he was repackaged by the entertainment industry as a lounge act, carrying his record sales even further and sending the cost of his out-of-print albums skyrocketing, but all at the cost of minimi...
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