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EDVALDO CARNEIRO

"BRASIL TROPICAL" owes its existence to a group of young Brazilians - among them Edvaldo Carneiro - who used to meet in Salvador, the Capital of the Eastern Brazilian State of Bahia, to practice the "Capoeira", a dashing game of skill, highly popular among Brazilians. In this form of combat, it is essential to show strength, speed, cunning and acrobatic dexterity. Carneiro soon won the highest accolade of the "Capoeira", the Lilac Shirt, called "Camisa Roxa" in Portuguese. From that comes his nickname of "Camisa". Camisa was born in Salvador, in the State of Bahia, the cradle of the oldest culture of this immense country where Brazil's history began and where were born many of its most distinguished statesmen, poets an musicians. Of all Brazil's Cities, Salvador remains to this day the most renowned, the most loved and the most celebrated in song, even more than Rio de Janeiro. Its young people are to a great degree born artist and it is not only in their religious life that the people of Bahia, and especially those of Salvador, pay honour to their Gods with drum beating, singing and dancing (which includes the mysterious and grandiloquent rhythm of the Afro-Brazilian "Candomble-Ritual"). On the basis of this, Camisa soon collected round him a group of first-class musicians, singers and dancers. He then engaged DOMINGOS CAMPOS, who was responsible for the choreography of "Brasiliana", and thus an original show not yet seen in Europe and elsewhere, saw the light of the day. Its participants were young and beautiful artist, born and bred in Salvador, like today's members of this great and famous Ensemble.

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Mestre Camisa Roxa was considered Mestre Bimba's best student. An authoritative council of Mestres gave him the lifetime title of “Grão-Mestre” from Abadá-capoeira. This title indicates that he is the highest-ranking guide and counselor in all of Abadá-capoeira worldwide. He is the capoeirista that has contributed the most to spreading capoeira around the world, by presenting capoeira as a Brazilian art form and culture in more than 50 countries.

Camisa Roxa was born in 1944, at the Estiva farm, in the State of Bahia. He started to practice capoeira, for fun, at the age of 10, and was followed later by all his brothers. In the 1960's, he went to Salvador, to study at a high school. He then started training capoeira at Mestre Bimba's Academy, where he graduated and was considered the best student by his Mestre.

Grão Mestre's nickname comes from the fact that he would always wear a purple shirt (camisa roxa), which he really liked, at the capoeira rodas that he attended in Bahia. He also liked to play in the rodas of traditional capoeira at Mestre Pastinha’s academy and at Mestres Waldemar and Traíra’s academy, at Rua Pero Vaz, where he was much respected for his great knowledge of capoeira's fundaments and for his professional demeanor.

Camisa Roxa thinks of capoeira as a whole, reconciling Reginal and Angola. "In reality, very few people understood Mestre Bimba real intentions", said Grão Mestre. "Hewanted to a tall capoeira first, with his method, but with time, every person should learn how to play low", he concludes.

Camisa Roxa coordinates Abadá-capoeira in Europe, regularly organizing workshops for instructors and professors in the area. He is also theorganizer of the Spring Capoeira Enconter in Europe and of the Abadá-capoeira European Games. These events aim at integrating and updating capoeiristas in Europe, through theoretical and practical classes ministered by guest Mestres from Brazil.

Today, Grão Mestre dedicates a lot of his time to research capoeira, always pursuing new routes and ways to make capoeira more visible around the worlld. To him, in Brazil, there should be more unity among the different groups, so that it is possible to better organize activities and courses. He says: "Maybe a more disciplined capoeira and more union among the leaders will produce a more professional and responsible capoeira". Camisa Roxa says that when he passes on his experience he attempts to pay back all the great things that capoeira has given him.

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Edvaldo Carneiro e Silva (born Jacobina, Bahia, 1944), also know as Grão Mestre Camisa Roxa, is a Capoeira grand master, most known for creating the organization ABADÁ-Capoeira. ABADÁ-Capoeira was founded in 1988, and ever since, Camisa Roxa has been at the head of many important philanthropy and martial arts movements all over the world, beside his younger brother, Mestre Camisa.

History
Camisa Roxa was the inspiration behind his younger brother Camisa beginning his training in the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira, by urging him to enroll in an academy under the tutelage of Mestre Bimba. After about a year, Camisa became an Aluno Formado, a graduated student of Mestre Bimba.

In the early 70's, Camisa Roxa was accompanied by his younger brother on a year-long tour of Brazil with the folkloric dance company Olodum Maré, which performed traditional arts including capoeira.

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At the end of the tour, instead of returning to his studies in Salvador, Camisa decided to remain in Rio de Janeiro to teach Capoeira.

He began to offer training in capoeira and slowly gained students. Camisa began to consider the need to design a formal structure for classes, to draw up a basic lesson plan, to create a place for studying and teaching, a place to debate techniques and discuss concepts. In addition, he felt the need to give a family-like structure to so many people who had left behind their cities and their friends and families and moved to Rio to dedicate themselves to capoeira. The latter was the main impetus for the creation of a new organization that would, in 1988, become ABADÁ-Capoeira.

Since the beginning of the 80's, Mestre Camisa had been drawing on his experience in Mestre Bimba’s Academy to develop his own style and build his school. His unique technique and methodology improved the martial aspect of capoeira, and established him as the leading capoeira master in the world.

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Printed References
Almeida, Birra "Mestre Acordeon" (1986). Capoeira: A Brazilian Art Form. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 0-938190-30-X.