Curations Out to These
Who's taking you?
- Curation by: The Artist
Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Roberto Mendes
- City: Santo Amaro, Bahia
- Country: Brazil
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Roberto Mendes is very much a son of Santo Amaro, Bahia. This is akin to saying that Jelly Roll Morton was very much a son of New Orleans.
Santo Amaro is a small town at the north end of Brazil's Baía de Todos os Santos (Bay of All Saints), ground zero in the creation of samba on Bahia's sugarcane plantations, and classically-trained Roberto is a master instrumentalist (guitar) and composer working in both the most rootsy end of this primordial samba and in highly wrought "translations" into more modern forms.
My Media
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCkmwMzShuOHGmfZAMPC_sMw
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkKv_iHebzlYd7zmcjedDzw
- ▶ Instagram: robertocaribemendes
Click to Listen on Spotify
- ▶ (Album/Podcast 1): http://open.spotify.com/album/2harXldOBhs3Bf1QRPZMQD
- ▶ (Album/Podcast 2): http://open.spotify.com/album/0jXqjSqZUkMgcX2bhfJuIy
Matrix Music Player
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Chulas - Roberto Mendes4 tracks6,241 plays | 915 views
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Brazil has something called "jeitinho", the "little way". In a country where the official way is so often impossible, people have to be creative. Do end runs around problems and powers-that-be.
The matrix is jeitinho. All explained inside the dot-defined window immediately below. Matrix encompassed artists below the window.