Popular hero of the "Música Popular Brasileira"

João Bosco is a folk hero in Brazil. The singer and guitarist has been delighting audiences with catchy melodies and clever rhythms for more than 40 years. "João sounds like an orchestra," says jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour about the old master of "Música Popular Brasileira", who combines influences from rock, jazz and Afro-Brazilian music in his music and for whom somehow everything always happens at the same time. In the 1970s and 1980s, Bosco was one of Brazil's young and politically committed musicians alongside greats such as Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, who repeatedly challenged the censorship of the military dictatorship with their coded songs.

With the congenial cellist and arranger Jaques Morelenbaum, who became known to a large public through his work with bossa nova icon Antonio Carlos Jobim, he not only shares a preference for subtle arrangements, but also a concern for Brazil's nature, which is literally threatening to go up in flames - a development that the indigenous population in particular has long been feeling the drastic consequences of. (Press release)