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World On Your Street: The Global Music Challenge
Pedro Martins
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Musician: Pedro Martins

Location: Brighton

Instruments: voice, guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion, flute, cavaquinho

Music: Brazilian

HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSIC听听听听听听听听听听WHERE I PLAY听听听听听听听听听听A FAVOURITE SONG Click here for Hande Domac's storyClick here for Mosi Conde's storyClick here for Rachel McLeod's story


Listen听听Listen (4'48) to 'Viva A Povo Brasileiro' from Pedro Martin鈥檚 band, Bazeado, taken from their album Requebra Nega (Mr Bongo MRBCD 20).

Listen听听Listen (00'55) to Pedro Martins talk about his music.


A favourite song:

The title translates as Long Life To The Brazilian People and it鈥檚 about a party in Brazil on a Sunday afternoon. It鈥檚 the kind of Brazilian party where people are playing music in the living room, playing music in the kitchen and playing music in the garden. They鈥檙e all playing something different - in Brazil when people start making music in the kitchen they start playing the pots and pans! So if you stand in the middle you hear lots of different sounds. And I use lots of different sounds in the songs.

The cavaquinho is a little guitar used with percussive instruments and there鈥檚 a little bit of that in there and at the end there鈥檚 some accordion which is an instrument normally associated with foro music from North East Brazil. I can鈥檛 play accordion and couldn鈥檛 find anyone in Brighton that could so I programmed four different keyboards to make the sound of an accordion and used that! At the beginning of the song I sing, 'Tell me baby, is the party good? I鈥檝e been dancing for seven days'. Then I sing about spicy food and say keep the music spicy too!

My album鈥檚 title Requebra Nega is the name you give to someone who dances samba well, it鈥檚 a real compliment. My friends in Brazil like the album. They say the album鈥檚 a mix of Brazil and London. I tell them, 'No, it鈥檚 a mix of Brazil and Brighton'.

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