Oscar Castro-Neves has been played on NTS shows including Architects w/ Alex Kelman, with Sambalamento first played on 25 October 2022.

Oscar Castro-Neves (May 15, 1940 - September 27, 2013), was a Brazilian guitarist, arranger, and composer who is considered a founding figure in the bossa nova music style.

Oscar was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, one of triplets in a highly musical family. Along with Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto and a handful of other young composers, he emerged in the early 1960s as one of the founding figures of the musical movement that became known worldwide as bossa nova. His first instrument…