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Leonardo de Araujo Gatti, known as Leo Gatti.

Musician, singer, songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, music producer, cultural producer, eco-activist.

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my story

LEO GATTI,  

Academic training: - Kindergarten and Pre-primary at Colégio Santa Marcelina, in Alto da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro,  RJ  
             - Primary and Secondary Study at Colégio Andrews, Rio de Janeiro, RJ;
             - UFRJ Civil Engineering from 1981 to 1985 (incomplete), Ilha do Governador, Rio de Janeiro, RJ;  
             - Informatics and Ecological Architecture courses at NTT,
             (Technological Training Center, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ); 

  Phase : -  Erevan Engenharia , six months on the sewage pipeline work in Favela da Rocinha , São Conrado , and  
       same period in a building in Catete, both Rio de Janeiro, RJ  ;
       - Intern and Production at Alkymia Produções Artísticas with Maria Juça (Circo Voador), at Parque Lage, EAV  
       School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, between 1985 and 1986;

  Music Schools: - Villa Lobos Music Institute, Centro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ  , from 1981 to 1984:  
           Classical Piano , Music Perception and Theory ;  
            - SCENE, by Tomás Improta  , Botafogo , Rio de Janeiro, RJ  , from 1985 to 1986:
           Popular and Jazz Piano and Keyboard; Musical Perception with Prof. Adamo Prince ;

  Others :  
       - Co-founder of the Green Party in 1986  at the Clara Nunes Theater at Shopping da Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, RJ;  
       - Private keyboard and piano teacher  , from 1985 to 1995 , Rio de Janeiro , RJ .
       - Alternative jobs, such as selling honey at home and sandwiches on the beach  
        developed their disinhibition. Having worked with sales and as a supervisor, Club Car and Capitalização leadership in downtown Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
       - Co-founder and Director of CEMARP, Alto do Rio Preto Micro-Basin Study Center, Visconde de Mauá-RJ/MG,  
        acting in preservation activities such as plantations, cleaning, pruning and Environmental Education (lectures and shows at schools);

Environmental Causes:
    - CNDA , National Council in Defense of the Amazon , Symposium , 1979 , Center , Rio de Janeiro, RJ ;
    - APEDEMA , Permanent Association in Defense of the Environment between 1984 and 1986 , Rio de Janeiro, RJ  ;
    - Abraço a Lagoa, SOS Baia de Guanabara, among others, with effective participation  in several collectives (Águas, Poetas, Mulher, Anti-Nuclear, among others) together with PV, 1986, Rio de Janeiro, RJ  ;   
    - Participated in the Production Team of "Grito Ecologíco" in 1991, at Planetário da Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; where he performed with names like Flávio Venturini , Geraldo Azevedo , Cláudio Nucci , Baby Consuelo (from Brazil ),

 

   Pepeu Gomes , Victor Biglione among others ; In favor of the preservation of Visconde de Mauá.
    - SOS Rio Preto and currently Play Clean with Rio Preto, annually in Visconde de Mauá.

 

As a volunteer in cleaning and in musical performances with ecological repertoire;
    - Greener Project, 2008, Guarapiranga Reservoir, São Paulo, SP. reforestation,  and ecological musical presentation
      
    Musical History: 
A lover of music and nature, this keyboard player, singer and songwriter from Rio de Janeiro, has a predilection for music that conveys emotion, whatever the style.

 

Not by chance, after all, he grew up listening to classical music, jazz, orchestras and great international singers influenced by his father.  (who also liked the Beatles and the Rolling Stones) to  Folk, Country, Rock and Progressive Rock from the 70's, which the brothers always loved. The passion for MPB  and National Rock  would come later in the first niae guitar wheels with friends...

 

Intuitive and pragmatic musician, he started playing the piano at age 8, but 
studies at 16 (in parallel with the engineering course at UFRJ, which he would drop out of almost at the end). Completed the basic course at the School of Music  Villa – Lobos 
(classical training with prof. Margarida, student of the founder), and also with prof. Sonia Regina graduated in Vienna. He studied lyrical and popular singing with prof. Elodia and turning more to Jazz and MPB, at Cenário (Rio Arts Center), piano with Tomás Improta and musical perception with Adamo Prince. There, he participated in memorable Jam Sessions with jazz beasts.   

 

He then acted as instrumentalist and singer in the bands: “Pegasus” and “Equinox” 
progressive rock  ;” Conclave” instrumental Jazz Pop  ; “Teatro Mágico”, a mime and multimedia show in addition to “Eclipse interprets  Pink Floyd", specialized  in the sound and visual effects of the sensational English ensemble and also “Mantiqueira”, dance-show,  through the Sierra region.  
        
Passionate about MPB , from Minas Gerais to soul , sambas and bossas , Northeasterners and many others , he composes varied themes . Preferably speaking of love, as in: “Flight to infinity”; “It's about time” and “Suddenly”. Themes of ecological preservation present in the speech of: “To modify”; “Pai Rio, Mãe Mata” and “Much better”. And even themes related to the social and everyday life: “From a kaleidoscope”; “Surreal world” and “The week”.
        
In Rio he performed showing his work from , Faculdades, Bars da Vida and Circo Voador,  the refined nightclubs People, Jazz Mania, Mistura Fina and, in ecological events such as: “If you clean  Rio“, cleaning and art in a square in Botafogo cove; “Grito Ecológico” at Planetário da Gávea and “Play clean with Rio Preto”  in Visconde de Mauá (RJ and MG). This activism started early, having participated in the 70's  of the CNDA (National Council for the Defense of the Amazon), in the 80's of the APDMA (Permanent Association in Defense of the Environment) that would culminate in the foundation of the PV (Green Party) and in the 90's of the "CEMARP", Center for Studies of the Micro-Basin of the Alto do Rio Preto, for the preservation of this region. He is currently affiliated with Greenpeace and the WWF, one of the most active NGOs in the field of conservation.
and recently participated in the Guarapiranga Reservoir in São Paulo in a commemorative event of the “More Green Project” of reforestation, always being aware of 
to good causes, including a special repertoire for these occasions.
         
In 1995 he moved from Cidade Maravilhosa  to the exuberant Visconde de Mauá, a region of rare natural beauty and one of the cradles of the ecological movement and alternative life in the country. There, where he began his solo career in 1985, he has performed in bars, inns, hotels and events since then. From time to time, however, he travels by "passalho" or "trasseio", as he usually says, both towards the attractive capitals:  Rio, Sampa and Curitiba, as for other places 
tourist and paradise like Búzios, Sul da Bahia and Floripa, strolling and playing...
        
   At the same time, in recent years, he has been arranging and recording the authorial and independent CD "Kaleidoscope Surreal" that is already on the market and also the CD  " Earth and Infinity " , to be released soon . Very eclectic as the name implies, "Surreal Kaleidoscope" has the special participation of: Daniela Spielmann (Sax), Marcos Ariel (Flute) and Marcos Suzano (Percussion) and first class musicians nicknamed Hamornia (Harmony with love).


The synthesis of experiences through the ages is kaleidoscopically materialized in this sincere and authentic cd: “- I wish that people enjoy listening to it in its entirety, in the delivery, because it was made with that intention...”. Participated in the Coletanea "Balaio Atemporal", 2005, Brazilian Guitar, 
along with big names like Tim Maia, Luis Melodia, Fabio, Renato Piau, Armandinho (Cor do Som) among others. Founder and General Coordinator of Mauástock EcoArte Festival,  arts and diverse knowledge focused on Sustainability  and Quality of Life.
His work is widely recognized in the region, due to the high musical quality, and defense of the environment and citizenship, having performed in practically all the most relevant places.   

     
    Aware of the influence that music has on people, Leo seeks through his work to spread his music, his ideas and his ideals... simplified and reduced. A first step towards the realization of the Festival in its broadest and most idealized form.


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  Mauastock EcoArte Festival :  
   facebook.com/groups/371550040075078/   -  Facebook group 
  instagram.com/mauastockecoartefestival/           instagram
   contact: mauastock.ecoarte@gmail.com                Gmail
 
MPB Cravo Albin Dictionary
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     Ainda no ano de 2005 participou da coletânea “Balaio Atemporal”, lançada pelo selo Guitarra Brasileira, com a faixa autoral “Tudo uma coisa só”; na qual contou com as participações especiais de Marcos Ariel (flauta transversa) e Marcos Suzano (percussão). No CD também participaram Tim Maia (póstuma), Luiz Melodia, Fábio Stella, Rubens Cardoso, Renato Piau e Armandinho Macedo, entre outros, com shows de lançamento no Parque dos Patins, na Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Salão Nobre do América Futebol Clube e no Jamaica Bar, Maromba - RJ. 

    Em 2009 lançou o CD “Caleidoscópio Surreal” com as faixas autorais “A semana”; “Mundo surreal”; “Tudo uma coisa só”; “De caleidoscópio”; “Já é hora”; “Voo ao infinito”; “Um toque um olhar”; “De repente”; “O casal (Do nascer ao pôr do sol)”; “Que Mauá”; “Pai-Rio, Mãe-Mata”; “A cada segundo”; “Pelo menos tentar” e “Pra modificar”. O disco contou com as participações especiais  dos músicos Daniela Spielmann (sax alto e tenor), Marcos Ariel (flauta transversa), Marcos Suzano (percussão). E um time da pesada apelidado e Hamornia, mistura de amor com harmonia: Giba Brito (guitarra e baixo), Juninho Batera (bateria), Amarante Trindade (percussão), Lilian (vocal), Marim Meira (trombone) e André Couto (trompete). Neste mesmo ano, de 2009, fez shows de lançamento do trabalho em vários lugares, destacando-se Bar Terra da Luz Jazz Club, em Maringá (MG) e no Centro Cultural Visconde de Mauá, no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Em 2010 apresentou-se no Casebre Pub e Zanzibar, entre outros, na cidade de Maringá (RJ).

 

 Durante a década apresentou-se por toda a região de Visconde de Mauá: Hotel Buhler, Pousadas, Restaurantes e Eventos diversos. E também em Penedo, destacando-se o Jazz Village. Além de incursões por diversas regiões turísticas como Búzios, Trancoso, Paraty entre outros. E ainda algumas capitais como Curitiba, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. Sendo o o show "Manos e Minas", em Trio, no Godofredo Rio, em destaque. Um tributo ao Clube da Esquina, com Cadu Dias Lopes (bateria) e Celso Bollorini (baixo), parceiros do "Equinócio". Iniciou em 2018 junto ao guitarrista Renato França, a pré-produção do álbum “A Terra e o Infinito”, igualmente todo autoral e bem eclético. Sem previsão ainda de lançamento o projeto segue agora para sua fase final. Entre 15 e 18 de agosto de 2019  produziu junto ao Coletivo Caleidoscópio, o Mauástock Ecoarte Festival, unindo diversas ártes e conhecimentos em prol da ecologia e cultura alternativa. Comemoranto assim o Cinquentenário de Woodstock e visando resgatar e projetar a veia ecológica, holística, mística e de alimentação saudável que a região teve nos anos 70 e início dos anos 80. Inicialmente previsto para ser de dois em dois anos, foi interrompido pela Pandemia. Existe a possibilidade dele ser ampliado futuramente na medida em que se obtenham patrocinadores.

   Lançamento do "Caleidoscópio" em mais de 150 plataformas digitais  em 11 de dezembro de 2022; 

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