The band Mato Seco was born in 2002, from the meeting of SEVEN great childhood friends who knew nothing about music theory. They joined each one with an instrument, self-taught, they went in search of spreading the messages of “Resistência”, trademark of the band.
From São Caetano do Sul to the World: Today the band is among the great powers of National Reggae, it is winning more and more fans and registering big box office wherever it goes throughout the country, participating in the most important events of the current scenario: João Rock; Forró da Lua Cheia, Virada Cultural, Bob Marley Day, Micareta de Feira de Santana, República do Reggae, Femadum, among many other festivals.
Conrado Vieira, famous by his stage name Shawlin, and currently known as Cachorro Magro, is a Brazilian rapper, singer, songwriter and producer.
He began his career at 15 when he recorded his first song, "Aliança", which was included in the collection Zoeira Hip Hop in 1999. He joined the collective Quinto Andar (the first Brazilian musical phenomenon on the Internet), was producer and featured on the album "Piratão", released in 2005, and was the first Brazilian rapper to have a website on the Internet. Shortly before, he released the solo EP "E a Vida Continua".
In 2007, with the end of the collective Quinto Andar, he released his debut album, entitled "Ruas Vazias", which had the participation of Sam the Kid, rapper from Portugal, in the song "Amigos".
The band Seed Roots was born in 2010 when friends got together with the intention of making a sound of authentic reggae roots with a pinch of renewal and in 2012 released their first album, "Perto de Jah".
From Feira de Santana, since ten years old, Dionorina was already making presetation in the local radio stations.
After moving to Rio de Janeiro and some successful records, Sacasó was released in 1999.
Rita was born in Santiago de Cuba, to Leroy Anderson and Cynthia "Beda" Jarrett, her parents moved to Kingston, Jamaica, when she was three months old.
The Soulettes released recordings including rocksteady tunes such as "Time for Everything", "Turn Turn Turn" (released in 1966, written by folk singer Pete Seeger) and "A Deh Pon Dem". "Friends and Lovers", "One More Chance" and "That Ain't Right" (featuring harmony vocals by the Wailers), as well as a duet by Rita and Bunny Wailer, "Bless You" were issued years later on the Lovers and Friends album.
After those recordings for the Studio One (record label) coached by Bob, Rita married Bob Marley around February 1966, just before her husband moved to Wilmington, Delaware for a few months to make a living working at the Dupont Hotel there. Bob was replaced by her cousin Constantine "Vision" Walker, who recorded a few songs as a member of The Wailers during this period, with Rita providing harmonies.
As Bunny was jailed in 1968 for cannabis possession, Rita joined the Wailers, replacing Bunny for a few months. It is at that time that The Wailers met U.S. singer Johnny Nash, who produced a series of Wailers rocksteady recordings.
"Who feels it, knows it" was released in 1981
Trained Violin player and compulsive traveler, Sumac Dub has found in music a way to create unknown worlds that explores without limits.
The artist has drawn most of his inspiration through his various journeys in Asia and in Middle East. Enriched by multiple musical influences and largely influenced by the current electro dub scene, Sumac gave birth to its own dub in which harmony and power come together brilliantly.
Always armed with his violin, it is once on stage that the artist really comes to establish his identity in a real fusion of raw energy and mystical delicacy.
The album "Dub Matsya" was released in 2016.
The Black Keys are an American rock duo formed in Akron, Ohio, in 2001. The group consists of Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums). The duo began as an independent act, recording music in basements and self-producing their records, before they eventually emerged as one of the most popular garage rock artists during a second wave of the genre's revival in the 2000s.
Brothers is the sixth studio album. It was release in 2010.
Moved by the passion for Jamaican music, three musicians from São Paulo founded the group Firebug. Formed in 2002, basically by Rodrigo Cerqueira, Felipe Machado and the New York-Paulista native Victor Rice. The trio started working on a repertoire in English, aiming to release an album on alternative American and European labels...
On the second CD, "On The Move, released in 2006, with practically all the tracks in English, this to have greater notoriety in the gringa. The only track in Portuguese, "Injustiça" features B-Negão (ex-Planet Hemp), rhyming and crying out loud and clear.
NOFX is an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. The mainstream success coincided with increased interest in punk rock during the 1990s, releasing fifteen studio albums, sixteen extended plays and a number of seven-inch singles.
NOFX released a new album, Coaster in 2009.