
Mas peraí, não é uma pessoa e sim um grupo musical!
É que nos primeiros contatos que tive com este talento fundamental para a mistura Jazz/R"B/Swing/Salsa, Merengue/etc e etc européia, sempre imaginava como seriam os componentes e quem era esse gênio capaz de à cada disco lançar uma cantora diferente e cada uma melhor que a outra, continuando amigos e sem nunca perder o pique.
Isto ao ponto de um show deles ser interrompido prq uma das vocalistas já sucesso mundial em carreira solo se derramando em lágrimas de emoção estava na platéia, e aí a música para e gentilmente ela é conduzida pela então vocalista ao palco e fazem uma apresentação memorável que ainda acho(era Lisa Stansfield que cito algo no final), pois até onde se sabe não foi registrada como é de costume deles fazerem.

Isto!
Matt Bianco é pra poucos!

For their first album “Whose Side Are You On?” they hired unknown polish vocalist Basia Trzetrzelewska. Her vocal arrangements gave the album a jazzy dimension that Reilly and White couldn’t anticipate, and hits like “Get Out of Your Lazy Bed” and “Half a Minute” turned Matt Bianco into one of the biggest acts of 1984 in Europe. The band name suggests that Matt Bianco is a personal name, but Matt is “a made up spy, a secret agent; we loved spy TV themes and film scores.”
Basia and Danny White left the group after the first album to pursue a career with Sony under the name Basia. Mark Reilly, now without a musical partner, found ex-Wham keyboarder and session musician Mark Fisher and recorded the next (self titled) “Matt Bianco” album. Their rendition of Georgie Fame’s “Yeh Yeh” received a European music award as Best Single of 1985. This was followed by a European tour that saw them perform in front of more than 250,000 people. Now Matt Bianco was a household name in Europe and Warner Brothers thought it was time to get them into the U.S. market.

After another album with Warner Brothers - “Samba In Your Casa” (1991), Reilly and Fisher split from their record company and went freelance. From now on they would record their albums in their own studios and then offer them to independent distributors worldwide.
This way, they had total artistic freedom but still scored contracts with ZYX Music and Intercord in Europe, and JVC-Victor in Asia. They created a loyal fan base in Japan and the rest of Asia and the albums “Another Time Another Place,” “Gran Via,” “World-Go-Round,” “A/Collection,” “Rico” and “Echoes” sold well enough for a comfortable lifestyle in the south east of England.
After twenty years recording and touring Mark Fisher started to crave for a different lifestyle and the two split amicably.

The following year, they embarked on a world tour, which included stops in the UK, Japan, and the United States. Following this, Basia and Danny White left Matt Bianco again to reinvigorate the Basia franchise.


Talvez questões contratuais, talvez disavenças que não chegaram claramente até nós, mas o que importa é a sonoridade, que muitos europeus e principalmente "ingleses" divulgaram para o mundo todo, baseados específicamente na "Bossa Nova"; o que claro vira e mexe desanda pra "rumba,salsa e merengue", mas nesse caso propósital mesmo, prq na grande maioria existem filmes famosos com trilhas sonoras que eles intitulam "samba" que não passa nunca de uma rumba e olhe lá,rs.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!