Your Third Voice

Adam Dunning is a singer and songwriter who specialises in the genre Bossa Nova, with a little bit of jazz and "solar" thrown in. Bossa Nova is little known genre that originated on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1950s by a small group of mainly middle-class students, artists and musicians. It is a soft, downplayed samba based on traditional Brazilian music and rhythms, American jazz, and a new style of Portuguese lyrics.* Adam not only teaches us about Bossa Nova but he also teaches us what it means to be entrepreneurial when your work is based in the Arts. In today's interview, you will be educated and inspired by: The motivation that inspired Adam to study law What it means for him to be a creative How he became a songwriter and musician and what it means to be a hybrid What is the music genre of Bossa Nova all about The reason moving to Rio de Janeiro from a high powered corporate law career wasn't a big leap How he afforded his long term stay in Rio What Adam learned about th