Luiz Paixão

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Seu Luiz Paixão worked as a sugarcane cutter since the age of 8. When still very young, his uncle taught him to play the rabeca, a small violin used for traditional street music. He would become one of the region’s most sought-after rabequeiros, generally playing in the cavalo-marinho (street theatre) and in forró dances. He was Siba and Renata Rosa’s rabeca teacher, playing with the latter for three years. At the age of 56 he has just recorded his first album, made up of compositions of cavalo-marinho and forró full of the atmosphere of...read more

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