1943

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Deodato started his music life playing the accordion and piano and taking formal music education. Deodato played at parties and balls, and in the late 50s he met Bossa Nova musicians, playing at their gigs. Then, as his career as an arranger started to consolidate, he worked in albums by Marcos Valle, Wilson Simonal and in the album "Inútil Paisagem", which featured Tom Jobim’s songs. In the 60’s, Deodato participated in music festivals. In 1967, encouraged by guitarist Luiz Bonfá, he moved to the U.S., where his career as arranger rocketed. First, he wrote arrangements for Brazilian musicians living in the States, such as Tom Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Walter Wanderley and Bonfá. He later wrote arrangements for American musicians, such as Frank Sinatra, Roberta Flack and for pop 80’s bands, such as Kool and the Gang, besides working with Islander singer Björk in the 90’s. In 1972, he made his classic album "Donato/Deodato", with João Donato. Deodato is one of the most prominent fusion-jazz musicians. His most successful project happened in 1972, when he wrote the arrangement of “Thus Spoke Zaratustra”, theme song of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Then he worked on several soundtracks in Hollywood. Deodato’s participation as a composer, arranger, producer and musician amount to approximately 500 albums and, so far, he has won 15 platinum records.