Salomão Habib

Origin

Belém, PA

Genres

classical music, regional music of pará, instrumental music

Instruments

guitar, viola caipira, vihuela, arabic lute, turkish lute, terz guitar, ten-string guitar, six-string guitar, venezuelan cuatro

Biography

Salomão Habib is a renowned Brazilian classical guitarist, composer, and researcher born in Belém, Pará. A graduate of the Carlos Gomes State Conservatory, he has stood out in the classical and regional music scene of Pará, working as a concert performer and composer since the 1980s and taking his art to various countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. In addition to his intense stage career, he has held important academic and institutional roles, having been a founder and professor at the State University of Pará and a curator at the Itaú Cultural Institute in São Paulo.

As a researcher, Habib has deeply dedicated himself to the study of Brazilian indigenous music and sounds, conducting field work with various ethnic groups and using elements of the tupi-guarani linguistic root in his compositions. His instrumental versatility encompasses not only classical guitar in its various forms, but also instruments such as the viola caipira, Arabic lute, and Venezuelan cuatro. Throughout his career, he has been awarded numerous prizes at popular music festivals and grants for artistic creation, establishing himself as one of the great references of Amazonian musical culture alongside names like Fabrício Mattos.

Discography

• Carta Do Tempo (1991)
• Sonhos na Amazônia II (Amazônia Continental) (2005)
• Salomão Habib e Sebastião Tapajós – Violões do Pará (2014)
• Ticuna: Sonoridade e Mitologia Poética, Vol. 1 (2017)
• Violões da Amazônia (2017)
• Suítes Amazônicas (2021)
• Canções para Maria (2025)
• Corda e Fé (2025)
• Violões do Pará - Disco 1 (2025)
• Santa Maria (2025)
• A música e o Pará (2025)
• Interpreta Tó Teixeira (2025)
• Violões do Pará - Disco 2 (2025)
• 1835 Cabanagem: Canções de amor, de guerra e de paz (2025)
• Interpreta Tó Teixeira vl.2 (2025)
• Interpreta Tó Teixeira vl.3 (2025)
• Ticuna II - Sonoridade e Mitologia Poética (2025)
• Violão Crioulo Tó Teixeira (2025)