The Matrix from Bahia, Brazil

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Bio: Tijuaçu is a village in Bahia, founded by runaway slaves and located in the sertão, the arid region beyond the Recôncavo (the lusher region around Bahia's Bay of All Saints, largely dedicated to raising sugarcane; it was from these plantations that slaves would run away into the interior).

During a particularly bad drought the women of the village would walk to area farms in search of water, bringing it back in large kerosene cans. It was on these walks they began utilizing the cans as drums, and singing. From this: samba de lata (can samba).

The northeast of Brazil is an area of people devoted to tradition, and this one has been kept alive by the children and grandchildren of the original practitioners.