Happy Birthday, Jorge Ben

The Father of Samba Rock, The Poet Laureate of Soccer Songwriting, The Best Album Covers with Dogs, The Guy Rod Stewart Ripped Off, etc.

(Cool, Substack disappeared my first draft of this post, so I’ll recreate it as best I can again.)

Today is Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes’s 81st birthday. And in every way, the man better known as Jorge Ben (now known as Jorge Ben Jor which echoes a theme of the man and either has to do with numerology or being mistaken for “George Benson”) is a giant in mus…