{{Infobox musical artist | image = | caption = | name = Celso Fonseca | image_size = | genre = [[Música popular brasileira]] | label = Dubas, Ziriguiboom/[[Crammed Discs]], [[Six Degrees Records|Six Degrees]], [[EMI Records|EMI Brasil]], [[Universal Music Group|Universal]] | website = }} '''Celso Fonseca''' (born November 15, 1956) 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.
Celso Fonseca was born in [[Rio de Janeiro]]. He began on guitar at age 12 and by 19 dedicated himself to music as a profession. He counts [[Baden Powell de Aquino]] as an influence. In the beginning of the 1980s he worked as guitarist for [[Gilberto Gil]]. 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. 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 [[Vinicius Cantuária|Vinícius Cantuária]] followed by productions for Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, [[Virginia Rodrigues (singer)|Virgínia Rodrigues]], [[Daniela Mercury]], [[Daúde Candeal|Daúde]] and others. He also worked with [[Milton Nascimento]], [[Djavan]], [[Adriana Calcanhotto]], [[Bebel Gilberto]] and many more.
His third collaborative album with Ronaldo Bastos ''Juventude / Slow Motion Bossa Nova'' was nominated for two [[3rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards#Brazilian|Latin Grammys]] as Best MPB Album and the song “A Voz do Coração” as Best Brazilian Song. 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).<ref>Biography on Fonsecas [http://www.celsofonseca.com.br/sec_bio.php homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912015905/http://www.celsofonseca.com.br/sec_bio.php |date=2011-09-12 }}</ref><ref>[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p145305/biography|pure_url=yes}} All Music]</ref>
Fonseca was nominated again in 2016, earning three nominations for the [[17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards]]. The nominations were [[Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]] for "Céu", [[Latin Grammy Award for Best MPB Album|Best MPB Album]] for ''Like Nice'' and [[Latin Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album|Best Engineered Album]], also for ''Like Nice''.<ref name="Billboard7517955">{{cite magazine |last=Cobo |first=Leila |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/latin-grammys-2016-nominations-full-list-7517955/ |title=Latin Grammys 2016 Nominations |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=21 September 2016 |access-date=31 October 2016 }}</ref>
==Discography== * ''Minha Cara'' (WEA, 1986) * ''Sorte'' (Dubas, 1994) with Ronaldo Bastos * ''O Som do Sim'' (Natasha, 1995) * with Ronaldo Bastos – ''Paradiso'' (Dubas, 1997) with arrangements by Eduardo Souto Neto and [[Jaques Morelenbaum]], and guest vocalist [[Milton Nascimento]] * with Ronaldo Bastos – ''Juventude / Slow Motion Bossa Nova'' (Dubas, 2001) * ''Natural'' (Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees, 2003) with guest vocalist [[Cibelle]] * ''Rive Gauche Rio'' (Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees, 2005) with guest artist [[Jorge Drexler]] * ''Feriado'' (EMI Brazil, 2007) * ''Ao Vivo'' (EMI Brazil, 2008) with guest vocalists [[Ana Carolina]], [[Gilberto Gil]] and [[Roberta Sá]] * ''Página Central'' (rec. 2007, Biscoito Fino, 2009) with [[Marcos Valle]] * ''Voz e Violão'' (Universal, 2010) solo concert recording * with Ronaldo Bastos – ''Liebe Paradiso'' (Dubas/Membran, 2011) with guest vocals by [[Nana Caymmi]], Milton Nascimento, [[Luiz Melodia]] a.o. * ''No Meu Filme'' (Universal, 2011) * ''Like Nice'' (Universal, 2015) * ''Nossa Musica'' (Joia Moderna, 2021)
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140304020527/http://dubas.net/site/busca?s=Celso+Fonseca Albums by Fonseca on Dubas Records]
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