Listen to Cyro Baptista, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!

Worldwide

Brazil

Cyro Baptista

122,362

Top Songs on Shazam

This Week
All Time

Most Streamed Songs by Cyro Baptista

About Cyro Baptista

Listen to Cyro Baptista, watch music videos, read bio, see tour dates & more!
Hometown
São Paulo, Brazil
Born
December 23, 1950
Genre
Worldwide

Artist Links
Brazilian Cyro Baptista is among the world's best known percussionists. He has played jazz, pop, rock, avant-garde, and standard classical performances in concert and on hundreds of recordings. He also leads his own ensembles. Baptista creates many of the percussion instruments he plays. He's worked with everyone from John Zorn to Yo Yo Ma. His debut, 1997's Vira Loucos: Cyro Baptista Plays the Music of Villa-Lobos, won global acclaim. 2005's Love the Donkey marked his Beat the Donkey band's debut. 2008's Banquet of the Spirits, titled for another of his ensembles, is widely regarded as a masterpiece. In 2011, Beat the Donkey issued Caym: Book of Angels, Vol. 17 from Zorn's second Masada composition book. Baptista issued Bluefly, a quartet date for bass, cello, drums, and percussion in 2016. In 2019 he joined Martin Philadelphy, Jamie Saft, and Dan Rieser on Arkitsa, and in 2023, he issued Chama on Ropeadope.
Cyro Baptista has also released music as a member of Bar Kokhba Sextet.

Similar to: Cyro Baptista

Discover more music and artists similar to Cyro Baptista, like Brooklyn Demme, Aaron Heick, Zafer Tawil
instagramSharePathic_arrow_out􀆄 copy􀐅􀋲

Loading...