Reggae Favela in São Paulo: Celso Moretti for the first time in São Paulo! Check it out!

On the 21st, Saturday, São Paulo will have the opportunity to discover Reggae Favela, a style created and consecrated by the Minas Gerais reggae icon, Celso Moretti, who performs, after 22 years of career and 2 CDs released, for the first time in São Paulo. The show, at 9pm, at Sesc Pompéia, is part of the SONS DE UMA NOITE DE VERÃO project, which promotes performances by musical groups with different dance styles to liven up the São Paulo summer nights. Bringing with it a very peculiar language, “moretês”, an invented language, Celso Moretti promises to lift the public with its energetic and performative evocations. Accompanied by the band Barraco de Aluguel, Moretti will have songs from his latest CD, “Reggae Favela Brasil” in his repertoire; in addition to singing some names that make up his universe of references, such as Luiz Melodia, the Minas Gerais singers Mauricio Tizumba and Marku Ribas and, of course, Brazilian versions of the Jamaican Bob Marley. Born in São João Del Rei (MG) and raised in the extinct favela Vila Nova Brasília, in Contagem (MG), where he lived until he was 25 years old, Celso Moretti established himself, in the early 80s, as the precursor of reggae in Minas Gerais when launching the extinct band Negro Gato (1983), the first of its kind in the State. Accompanied by the band Barraco de Aluguel, he pursued a solo career, remaining faithful to the Jamaican style. Since then, he started writing lyrics that deal with everyday life in the favela, the loves, the pains, the disappointments and joys, taking his experience and the language characteristic of urban settlements into the genre, appropriating much more of the rhythm than the theme of Jamaican reggae, and for that reason adding a heavy dose of MPB to it. He ended up creating a derivation of the Jamaican style, which he called “Reggae Favela” - an expression that became the trademark of his production.

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 Normal: R$15,00  Elderly/students: R$ 7,50  Enrolled: R$ 11,00  Workers and dependents: R$ 5,00  NOTE: Children under 18 will be prohibited from entering the show.