A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Wednesday honoring Brazilian percussionist Paulinho Da Costa for a career that has included collaborations with Michael Jackson on \u201cWe Are the World\u201d and \u201cThriller.\u201d<\/p>\n
Da Costa is the first Brazilian honored on the Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n
Singer\/songwriter and Walk of Famer Ray Parker Jr. and Larry Dunn were among those joining Da Costa in speaking at the ceremony at 1709 Vine St., just north of Hollywood Boulevard. Dunn is best known as the keyboardist and musical director of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band Earth, Wind & Fire from 1972 to 1984.<\/p>\n
The location of the star was chosen because Da Costa\u2019s team wanted to have the Capitol Records Building in the background from the stage so he could be seen with most significant building in Los Angeles \u201cwhich represents music,\u201d Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, told City News Service.<\/p>\n
Da Costa noted the location while accepting the star Wednesday, saying through his thick Brazilian accent, \u201cYou don\u2019t believe how many hours\u201d he spent in the building. He joked that he once got a ticket for walking across the street while getting to the building.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fabulous artists I collaborated with, my sincere love and appreciation to all of you,\u201d he said. \u201cIncredible musicians. It was an incredible journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he embraced the culture of the United States, \u201cand the culture embraced right back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rhythms of Brazil run through my veins. Growing up there, everything around me became a music instrument \u2014 tables, spoons, glasses, bottles, everything \u2014 which lead to my creativity and improvisation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you United States. Thank you this city, and God bless America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The ceremony came on the 138th anniversary of Brazil ending slavery when a royal decree known as the Lei \u00c3\u0081urea (Golden Law) was signed by Princess Imperial Isabel. This act made Brazil the last nation in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery.<\/p>\n
The star is the 2,844th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.<\/p>\n
Born May 31, 1948, in Rio de Janeiro, Da Costa discovered his love for percussion when he was 5 years old by exploring the different sounds of everything he could get his hands on, according to the biography on his website, paulinho.com.<\/p>\n
While still in his early teens, Da Costa joined several musical groups, traveling extensively throughout the world.<\/p>\n
Da Costa has contributed to more than 1,000 projects, including the soundtracks for \u201cSaturday Night Fever,\u201d \u201cMission Impossible III,\u201d \u201cDirty Dancing,\u201d \u201cPurple Rain,\u201d \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d \u201cThe Last Jedi,\u201d \u201cIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,\u201d \u201cTransformers,\u201d \u201cHairspray\u201d and \u201cFootlose,\u201d and such songs as \u201cI Will Survive\u201d and \u201cThat\u2019s What Friends Are For.\u201d<\/p>\n
Da Costa has also collaborated with Quincy Jones, Madonna, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Sting, Mary J. Blige, Diana Krall, Seal, Jon Bon Jovi, Chaka Khan, John Legend, Lalo Schifrin and David Foster.<\/p>\n
Da Costa portrayed an African musician in the 1985 film, \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d and contributed to its soundtrack..<\/p>\n
Da Costa is the subject of the documentary, \u201cThe Groove Under the Groove,\u201d which was released in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Wednesday honoring Brazilian percussionist Paulinho Da Costa for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[131928,71108,2847,2848,48,52,51,47,50,49,131929,2850,2851,687],"class_list":["post-315155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-brazilian","tag-costa","tag-fame","tag-honoring","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-percussionist","tag-star","tag-unveiled","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}