Cidade Negra rocks the Tom Brasil "Saturday night"! Check everything about this great performance!

On the last night of May 14th, Tom Brasil, a renowned music venue in São Paulo, welcomes the band Cidade Negra for another show to promote their latest work, "Perto de Deus". Scheduled to start at 10:00 pm, the concentration of people in the place was quite calm, which was not a parameter for the show, in fact, quite the opposite. When the curtains open for the sweeping entrance of Toni Garrido & Cia, "Downtown" is the calling card. This was the thermometer for what the rest of the show would be like: Lots of vibration and energy exuded from the audience! Without blinking, "Firmamento" and "Pensamento" are responsible for the next day's snoring. The setlist was well mixed from different phases of Cidade, such as Ras Bernardo's classics, the dynamics and vocal power with Garrido's entry, and the latter, a true back-to-roots, "Perto de Deus", and its entrance track "Se Someone Jah Amou". Next up is Black City's raggamuffin-flavored version of Peter Tosh's stoner "Johnny be Goode." To bring the house down for good, Toni begins to talk about an occasion when guitarist Da Gama arrived to give the band an idea... this idea became a hit on the radio and goes by the name of " Além das Ondas ". Many songs could have stood out, but it would be unfair not to name "Girassol", a true lesson in harmony and evolution. In "O Homem que faz a Guerra", Cidade Negra shows all the critical power of reggae combined with one of its closest partners, Rap, and to represent it, one of the main artists in the medium, Rappin’Hood. Soon after, Toni talks about May 13th, the day of the abolition of the slave regime, with a certain tone of irony, and highlights: "Today, slavery is much greater, as it affects not only black people, but everyone... pregnant women, the elderly... we have to fight for equality of situations..." For the "pre-saidera", the great hits "A Sombra da Maldade" and "O Erê", would already honor all the cents invested in this great presentation, but much more was yet to come. After many requests for an encore, Cidade Negra returns to play 4 songs: another song from the Bernardo era, "Falar a Verdade", the version of Pepeu Gomes' original "I also want to kiss", and, preceding "Busy Busy" from the album "Perto de Deus", Cidade Negra plays "Geração Coca-Cola" by Legião Urbana, a true protest dating back to 1985, but still very current. Toni Garrido begins the "strike" by mocking a tribute to George W. Bush, president of the United States, and says: "George... George W... George W. Bush: Fuck You! Fuck You MotherFucker... Sucker..." Well, we won't translate the words above, but the last actions of the "excellent" made him worthy of all his translation. Congratulations to the entire Tom Brasil team for the exemplary organization of their events.  Click here and see some photos from the event.

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