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jorge ben @ live earth in 2007


in 1969, jorge ben released self-titled album amid excitement of cultural , musical tropicália movement. album featured trio mocotó backing band, go on launch successful career on of association ben. album noted país tropical, 1 of famous compositions, although wilson simonal take recording of song top of charts in brazil same year. instead, song charles, anjo 45 , self-titled album, become ben s biggest self-performed chart hit of year.


in 1970s, jorge ben released esoteric , experimental albums, notably tábua de esmeralda in 1974 , solta o pavão in 1975. in 1976, released 1 of popular albums: África brasil, fusion of funk , samba relied more on electric guitar previous efforts. album features remake of released song taj mahal, rod stewart s 1979 hit da ya think m sexy? plagiarized (a matter claimed settled out of court in favor).


in 1989, jorge changed recording label artistic name, becoming jorge benjor (or jorge ben jor). @ time, said there numerological reasons change in name; other sources in response incident of royalties accidentally went american guitarist george benson.







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