The whatmusic.com interview… I was born in Bauru, a city in the interior of São Paulo. Not only was my grandfather a musician, a violeiro, a repentista from Minas Gerais and the son of Africans, but my father was a sanfoneiro - an accordionist. When I was nine years old I went to a school run by monks where I studied orfeonic song and became the lead chorister, until I was thirteen when I moved to Rio de Janeiro. In Rio I went to live in the Morro de São João in Engenho Novo. There you'd hear samba all night, every night, and this got me into playing some percussion in… read more
The whatmusic.com interview… I was born in Bauru, a city in the interior of São Paulo. Not only was my grandfather a musician, a violeiro, a repentista from Minas Gerais and the son of Africans, but my father was a sanfoneiro - an accordionist. When I was nine years old I went to a sc… read more
The whatmusic.com interview… I was born in Bauru, a city in the interior of São Paulo. Not only was my grandfather a musician, a violeiro, a repentista from Minas Gerais and the son of Africans, but my father was a sanfoneiro - an accordionist. When I was nine years old I went to a school run by monks where I studied orfeonic song and became the lead chor… read more
