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“The rapper is the one that just do rap. I’m not a rapper,
cause a I don’t do just rap, I do rapente.”
Rapadura Xique-Chico
RAPadura come prepared to “tangle” and “move” the brazilian
music scene. Considered by Hutúz Award 2009 the North / Northeast Best
Artist in the 21th century, Francisco Igor Almeida Santos, known as RAPadura was born in Ceará. He is one of the biggest revelations of the Brazilian
music in recent years.
The young artist drew the admiration of leading figures of Brazilian music as Lenine, GOG, MV Bill, Happin Hood and many others who
surrendered to the “rapente” sound that only he does.
“Rapadura is all that is modern and the new authentic Brazilian music,
a rap forceful ideological and totally immersed in the rich culture of the
Northeast. I do not give six months for him to be traveling around the world,
to be ahead of its time, and certainly be able to prove that the Brazilian Rap
has a new face. The Brazil’s face. Finally!
Ferréz, writer.
Member of a productive group of Brazilian popular music, RAPadura can be considered an avant-garde artist. The unusual “tangled” rap
with the sudden, coconut, Maracatu, Capoeira, the dance, the ballad and
nursery rhymes, make it one of the precursors of a century movement in
defense of popular culture that arises from integration of contemporary rap
music to the root.
RAPadura develops a work dedicated to the world of spoken
song. A bold blend of rap with the tradition of Brazilian popular culture. His
lyrics are blunt and exude a poetic language without losing the identity of
the people. They speak of the Northeast, drought, farmer’s and women’s
lace-maker also talk of the town and the processes of urbanization.
“I see my job as a true preservation of our cultural roots in Brazil”.
Francisco Almeida Igor Santos was born in 1984 in the municipality of Lagoa Seca, a village on the outskirts of Fortaleza - Ceará, and as
hundreds of backland, migrated with his family to Brasilia in 1997, while
still a teenager. The nickname comes from his passion for brown sugar
(rapadura), named after the famous sweet Northeast typically made from
pure cane juice, known for providing lots of energy and vitality to those who
consume it. RAPadura used to eat a pot of brown sugar (rapadura) after
plays soccer with friends.
The longing he felt for the East influenced the composition of
their early songs. The inspiration came out of necessity when he decided to
do a different thing, a song that people liked to hear. He bought some discs
of baião and began to listen at home.
“I wrote a song over a song by Luiz Gonzaga. I took a small piece
of accordion, I put some beats up and wrote a song talking about the culture of the Northeast”.
Inspired by the songs Marinês,
Luiz Gonzaga, Heleno Ramalho,
Banda de Pau e Corda, Lia Itamaracá,
Patativa Assaré of, among many others, RAPadura released their first recorded work and
now immortalized,
A FITAEMBOLADA do Engenho - Rapadura na BOCA
DO POVO!
With 8 tracks, the CD promises to do a lot of people dancing to “Maracatu de lá pra cá”. Bring a statement to his “ Norte e Nordeste me veste,”
speaks of a “Amor Popular”, a “ Moça Namoradeira “ . “Tu e Eu “ will sing
“Rima Junina” em uma “Fita embolada de Engenho” of Rapadura tha is
“Doce mas num é mole”, não.
Exporting the cane juice to the world, the public is going to show
the RAPadura can give a true celebration, which has been on stage a committed partnership with artists and activists in the countryside and city, or
“Art’vistas”.
For those who have shared the same events and stages that Lenine, Gerson King Combo, Detonautas, Paulo Diniz, Maria Rita, MV Bill,
Gog and Racionais MC’s, the challenge now is to answer the call for a mission more than special: represent their North and Northeast, to take their
culture to the four corners of the world.
This is the RAPadura Xique Chico, unique artist in Brazilian culture. RAPadura in essence, Xique resistance, Chico a sort of ‘blessing’.
“Não vejo cabra da peste, só carioca e paulista, só freestyleiro em nordeste, não querem ser repentistas, rejeitam xilogravura, o cordel que é
literatura, quem não tem cultura, jamais vai saber o que é RAPadura!”
Piece of the song “Norte Nordeste me veste”.
RAPadura main roles
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Winner of Award Hutúz (2007 and 2009), North / Northeast Best artist.
Palco Principal Prêmio Hutúz – Circo Voador (Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil) 2009;
Carnaval Hip Hop – Praça Tereza Batista, Pelourinho (Salvador – Bahia- Brazil) 2009;
II Brasília Games – Guará II Teatro de Arena (Destrito Federal - Brazil) 2009;
International Cultural Conference ( Pirenópolis - Goiás - Brazil) 2009;
I Festival Nacional Rap & Repente (Campina Grande – Paraíba – Brazil) 2007;
IV Campeonato Internacional de B. Boys – ( Macapá – Amapá – Brazil) 2007;
Hutúz Festival – (Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil) 2007;
Pelourinho na Rota da Rima – (Salvador – Bahia – Brazil) 2007;
Marco Zero – ( Recife – Pernambuco – Brazil) 2007.
Contacts:
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Ionara Silva
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