The journalist Angélica Basti presents the painting "Tô no Acervo" from the CULTNE NA TV Program, recorded on November 21, 2010, after the National Day of Black Consciousness, during the presentation of Arlindo Cruz on the Samba Wheel of the late Ovídio Brito in Renascença Club. The board has a differential, which is to show the interviewee moments he lived in other times. With images from the Cultne collection, Arlindo Cruz reviewed the beginnings of the Pagode of Arlindo Cruz on Rua Padre Telêmaco in Cascadura, north zone of Rio de Janeiro, recorded in July 1987, with Acyr Marques, Chiquinho Vírgula and Deny de Lima. Arlindo is a professional musician, excelling at plucked strings, especially ukulele and banjo. If he weren't a songwriter and singer, he could live off that. His compositions, always with interesting harmonic solutions and worked melodies, reveal that they were made by a musician (which in samba, full of composers more intuitive than technicians, is a curious differential). As soon as he was seven, the boy won his first cavaquinho. Excited about the instrument, he anxiously waited for his father to come home from work to learn to play. At 12, he already played many songs by ear, and, as his brother, Acyr Marques, he learned guitar. He entered the Flor do Méier school, where he studied theory, solfeggio and classical guitar for two years. And at that time he started working professionally as a musician, making samba circles with several artists, including Candeia, who he considers his musical godfather. With Candeia, he recorded his first albums, a simple compact, for the Odeon label, and an LP called Roda de Samba (now found on CD). In both he played the ukulele. When he turned 15 he went to study in Barbacena MG, at the Cadetes do Ar preparatory school. But he did not abandon music. He sang in the school choir. Then, the composer Arlindo Cruz was born, who won festivals in Barbacena and Poços de Caldas. When he left Aeronautics, he started to attend the Cacique de Ramos samba circle, which already revealed new talents. He went every Wednesday, enjoying and learning alongside Jorge Aragão, Beth Carvalho, Beto sem Braço, Ubirani and Almir Guineto. Other young people followed the same path, among them, Zeca Pagodinho and Sombrinha - who would come to be his partner. The masters did not take long to recognize in Arlindo Cruz the great composer that was already perceived. In the first year of Cacique, he had 12 songs recorded by several performers. The first one was "Lesson of Malandragem". Then there were other hits, such as "Grande Erro" (Beth Carvalho), "Novo Amor" (Alcione) and many others.
