Dom Mita's lyrics & chords

The whatmusic.com interview... I was born in Bauru, a city in the interior of São Paulo. Not only was my grandfather a musician, a violeiro, a repentista from Minas Gerais and the son of Africans, but my father was a sanfoneiro - an accordionist. When I was nine years old I went to a school run by monks where I studied orfeonic song and became the lead chorister, until I was thirteen when I moved to Rio de Janeiro. In Rio I went to live in the Morro de São João in Engenho Novo. There you'd hear samba all night, every night, and this got...read more