A Rio sambista whose music carries his neighborhood's rhythm and his family's songs.
For his sound, start with 'Marroquino', it's his grandfather's tune. 'Vem Morena' gives you the straight samba feel he never really left behind.
He came up in Morro do Salgueiro, where samba was just part of the air. His song 'Marroquino' was written by his grandfather and became known across Brazil. Tracks like 'Vem Morena' and 'Salve Zumbi' keep that neighborhood sound alive, even when his career hit rough patches.
He started performing with Mangueira in the mid-1990s and put out his first album in 2000. After a 2008 arrest interrupted things, he came back with albums like 'Forró do Matéria' and 'Samba de Verdade' in the following years.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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