Tim Maia
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Tim Maia
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Editor’s Observe: To commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month this 12 months, World Cafe is happening a musical tour of Latin America. Each weekday from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we’ll highlight the music of a distinct Latin American nation with a curated playlist of important tracks, contemporary voices and wild playing cards.
Let’s handle the elephant within the room: Sure, World Cafe is together with Brazil in its Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, and sure, we all know Portuguese is Brazil’s official language, so Brazilians are, due to this fact, not Hispanic.
Take it from somebody who nonetheless will get confused filling out the census: The USA has not discovered a sufficiently nuanced time period to explain the shared cultural heritage of Latin Individuals; the U.S. authorities below Lyndon Johnson settled on “Hispanic” after they created this commemorative celebration in 1968.
However, as I’ve spent the previous couple of weeks compiling these playlists — alongside World Cafe‘s Latin Roots correspondent, Byron Gonzalez — the musical threads tying Latin America collectively are unmistakable. Rhythms from the West Indies have made their solution to Central America and past. Argentine rock was the seed from which rock en español grew. The sounds of the Amazon rainforest have impressed musicians from Bolivia to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and, after all, Brazil. So there is not any approach we may depart the birthplace of samba, bossa nova and a lot extra out of this monthlong celebration.
This combine contains Brazilian icons like João Gilberto, Antônio Carlos Jobim and Tim Maia. There’s additionally youthful acts who’re reinterpreting these basic Brazilian rhythms like ANAVITÓRIA and São Paulo band PLUMA.
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We have included a slinky reduce from Pabllo Vittar‘s 2020 album, 111. In 2018, Vittar grew to become the primary drag queen to win a Latin Grammy for “Sua Cara,” Vittar’s collaboration with Main Lazer and Anitta.
Lastly, one in every of our favourite songs on this playlist must be “ESSA RUA É MINHA” from Indigenous hip-hop artist and activist Kaê Guajajara. She has a brand new album out known as Zahytata.
Get pleasure from, and be sure to come again tomorrow to search out out the place World Cafe‘s headed subsequent.
