• Source: Brasil (The Manhattan Transfer album)

Brasil was The Manhattan Transfer's tenth studio album. It was released in 1987 on Atlantic Records.
This album was a new foray for the group into Brazilian music. During the recording sessions, they worked with many songwriters, including Ivan Lins, Milton Nascimento, Djavan and Atlantic Records Jazz recording artist Gilberto Gil. After the initial recording sessions, the songs were re-arranged and then fitted with English lyrics.




Awards


This album won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals.




Charts


The song "Soul Food To Go" reached #25 on Billboard Magazine's Top Adult Contemporary chart. The stop-motion animated music video for "Soul Food To Go" was produced by Will Vinton Studios.




Track listing






Personnel


The Manhattan Transfer

Cheryl Bentyne – vocals, vocal arrangements (3)
Tim Hauser – vocals
Alan Paul – vocals, vocal arrangements (2, 4, 5)
Janis Siegel – vocals, vocal arrangements (1, 3, 4, 6–9)
Musicians and Guests




Production


Producers – Tim Hauser (Tracks 1–7 & 9); Tim Hauser and Mazzola (Track 8).
Executive Producer on Brazilian sessions – Alberto Traiger
Recorded by Ed Thacker
Second Engineers – Carlos Ronconi and Mike Ross
Vocal Engineer – Keith Cohen
Second Vocal Engineer – Ted Blaisdell
Mixed by Brian Malouf
Second Mixing Engineers – Jim Dineen and Clif Jones
Recorded at Ocean Way Recording, Studio 55 and Skip Saylor Recording (Los Angeles, CA); Bill Schnee Studios and The Grey Room (Hollywood, CA); JHL Studios (Pacific Palisades, CA); Som Livre Studios (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, CA).
Album Coordination – Marsha Loeb
Project Coordination – Ivy Skoff
Art Direction, Design and Paintings – Fayette Hauser
Back Cover Photography – Lawrence Manning
Sleeve Photography – Nancy Clendaniel, John Cutcliffe, Fayette Hauser, Tim Hauser, Lawrence Manning and Louise Velasquez.




Certifications






References / Sources


The Manhattan Transfer Official Website
Specific

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Album Jazz Kontemporer Terbaik (Grammy Award)
• When I Need You
• Brasil (The Manhattan Transfer album)
• Brazil (disambiguation)
• The Manhattan Transfer
• Cheryl Bentyne
• Tim Hauser
• Djavan
• Anthology: Down in Birdland
• The Offbeat of Avenues
• Wayne Johnson (musician)
• Toninho Horta