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Poder de Expressão
Poder de Expressão formed in 1987 in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, a group of friends who started making music about what they saw around them. Their songs like...
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Poder de Expressão formed in 1987 in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, a group of friends who started making music about what they saw around them. Their songs like "Cria do Mundo" and "Ta Tendo" came from that place, with lyrics that talked directly about poverty and police violence in plain language that people in their neighborhoods recognized.
They've faced trouble for what they say in their music, including arrests and censorship from authorities who didn't like their political messages. But they kept recording anyway, putting out albums like "Cria do Mundo" in 1994 and "Direito de Viver" in 2004 that became rallying points for people who felt the same way about social injustice.
The group works as a collective with different members contributing. Cidinho e Doca were there from the beginning, Tico Santa Cruz handles a lot of the vocal work, and Anderson X produces the beats. They've never really stopped being what they started as, a platform for voices that don't usually get heard in mainstream Brazilian music.
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