Free Sound Orchestra aka Orquestra Som Livre was a constant presence on brazilian soap operas soundtracks. Som Livre (Portuguese for \"Free Sound\") is a Brazilian record company that was founded in 1969 by Rede Globo to commercialize its soap opera soundtracks, later expanding to record studio albums. Today it is one of the largest Brazilian music record labels and is still a part of Grupo Globo.
Great maestros as Waltel Branco, Guto Graça Mello, Arthur Verocai, Erlon Chaves and others used to work as arranger and composers on the releases.
Aliases
Coral e Orquestra Som Livre, Orquestra Som Livre
Waltel Branco (born Paranaguá, Brazil, November 22, 1929 - died Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 28, 2018) is a Brazilian conductor, composer and arranger.
From a family where music was a part, he began this art very early, through the drums, guitar and ukulele and later the cello, has been studying harp and organ. His childhood and adolescence were marked by the study of music and religion alternating between the cities of Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro. His musical studies were consolidated in the period when he was in the seminary with the Chilean Joquin Zamacois. Among his teachers of the time, names like Benedict Mossurunga, Padre José Penalva, Jorge Koshag, Stanley Wilson and Alceo Bocchino contributed to its formation.