Tadeu Vaqueiro

Tadeu Vaqueiro came up in Fortaleza, where his grandfather played accordion and got him started early. His first album, 'Na Onda do Berimbau,' came out in 1999 and did well enough to get him noticed. Songs like 'Espumas Ao Vento' and 'Eu Vou Tirar Você do Cabaré' have kept him around in the forró scene since then.

He's worked with Beto Caju on accordion and Marcinho Aguiar on percussion for a while now, which gives his live sets a steady, familiar feel. The music stays pretty close to forró rhythms, even when he tries something a little different. Tracks like 'Me Diz Amor' and 'Obsessão' show how he handles the genre's usual themes without pushing too far from what people expect.

There was some talk early on about whether he was changing forró too much, but that never really stuck. He kept playing, kept putting out records, and the resistance faded as he became just another working musician in the field. Nothing about his career suggests he was trying to reinvent anything, just play it well enough to make a living at it.