Biography

Baden Powell was born on August 6, 1937 in Varre-e-Sai, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a composer and actor, known for Closer (2004), Eat Pray Love (2010) and The Ice Storm (1997). He was married to Silvia. He died on September 26, 2000 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

His song "Samba da Bênção" was featured in a 1966 hit romantic drama by French film director Claude Lelouch Un Homme et une Femme (1966). Some of his best-loved songs included "Berimbau", which he composed with famed Rio de Janeiro poet Vinicius de Moraes, and "Apelo" and "Deixa".

He has two sons Philippe and Louis-Marcel Baden-Powell de Aquino, both living in Rio de Janeiro.

He was named after Robert Steven Smyth Baden-Powell, the 19th-century British founder of the Boy Scouts. His family moved to Rio de Janeiro when he was four months old and he grew up listening to all kinds of music: from frevo, to samba, to modinhas, to fado, of course, classical music.

"I didn't keep track of my recordings because I was having so much fun playing the music. Who has time to count albums?" - from his 1999 biography O Violão Vadio de Baden Powell (The Sweet Guitar of Baden Powell)