- He counts Baden Powell de Aquino as an influence.
- He began on guitar at age 12 and by 19 dedicated himself to music as a profession.
- Fonseca was nominated again in 2016, earning three nominations for the 17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards. The nominations were Song of the Year for "Céu", Best MPB Album for Like Nice and Best Engineered Album, also for Like Nice.
- Celso Fonseca is a Brazilian composer, producer, guitarist and singer.
- He is noted as part of the 'Música popular brasileira' since the 1980s, initially as accompanist and composer, then producer, and since the mid-1990s as an artist in his own right.
- His best-known international releases so far are the two albums he has recorded for Crammed Discs' sublabel Ziriguiboom: Natural (2003) and Rive Gauche Rio (2005).
- He also worked with Milton Nascimento, Djavan, Adriana Calcanhotto, Bebel Gilberto and many more.
- In 1983 his collaboration with composer Ronaldo Bastos began. Their song "Sorte" was recorded by Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso and later gave the title for Fonsecas second album in 1994.
- Fonseca also produced Gilberto Gil's "O Eterno Deus Mu Dança", Daúde's debut album (that brought him the Sharp Prize as the best pop/rock arranger of 1996), the two first solo albums by Virgínia Rodrigues, six tracks of Leo Gandelman's Brazilian Soul, and Gal Costa's "Aquele Frevo Axé", among other albums by Rosana, Adriana Maciel, Verônica Sabino, Daúde, and Zeca Baleiro.
- His third collaborative album with Ronaldo Bastos Juventude / Slow Motion Bossa Nova was nominated for two Latin Grammys as Best MPB Album and the song "A Voz do Coração" as Best Brazilian Song.
- His second record "O Som do Sim", launched in Europe in 1995, hit number nine of the European world music chart.
- In the beginning of the 1980s he worked as guitarist for Gilberto Gil.
- In 1986 he had released a first recording Minha Cara the same year he began to work as a producer for other musicians, debuting with an album by Vinícius Cantuária followed by productions for Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Virgínia Rodrigues, Daniela Mercury, Daúde and others.
- His resumé includes several international tours, four performances at the Montreux Fest (Switzerland) and other festivals around Europe, Canada, U.S., and Japan.
- In 1998, Gilberto Gil's "Quanta Live", which included Fonseca's participation, won the World Music Grammy. In the next year, Fonseca did the musical direction of the show "Since Samba Has Been Samba" at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with Gil, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Chico Buarque, Elza Soares, and Virgínia Rodrigues. He participated also in Bebel Gilberto's Tanto Tempo.
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