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Baden Powell is regarded as a key figure in the history of Bossa Nova, Brazil's jazzy samba music that gained worldwide popularity in the 1960s.
Powell showed a rare talent for the guitar, teaching himself some basic chords and a couple of songs.
He started to compose in the mid-1950s, influence by jazz and choro (a Brazilian jazz form). He once said that "jazz showed me the possibilities of improvisation and the techniques to play with passion."
Baden Powell, a pioneer of Bossa Nova who was more popular abroad than at home, died in 2000, pneumonia and multiple organ failure at the age of 63.
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