Marcos Valle

When it comes to stylistic diversity in music history, Brazilian composer, arranger, songwriter and performer Marcos Valle is the measure of all things: In the 1960s, as composer of the second bossa nova wave, he wrote world hits such as «Samba de Verao«, reinvented himself in the 1970s with a jazzier, psychedelic MPB sound (Música Popular Brasileira), and in the 1980s composed a series of US soul classics together with Leon Ware. Compositions for film and television followed, as well as a partnership with Far Out Recordings that began in 1998 with the release of «Nova Bossa Nova« - one of more than 20 studio albums Valle has released in a career that has spanned over more than six decades. This year he turns 80 and we celebrate both him and with him at Summer Festival: Following Valle's concert, Hamburg DJs will spin dance music inspired by waves and beaches - including Gulosa from Possy collective, multi-instrumentalist and (Shellak) record collector Friedrich Paravicini and, last but not least, the party-tested sun-duo Júliø & Tussn.