Daomeano, iorubano
Congolese, angolano, mbandu
Haúça, muçulmano
From tudo isso got penny
Dahomean, Yoruba,
Congolese, Angolans, Bantu,
Hausa, Muslim
I’m made of it all.Mateus Hallelujah – From tudo isso got penny (2017)
When Mateus Aleluia composes this title for Fogueira Doce, his second solo album, the musician with the heavenly name is, at 74, a living legend of Afro-Brazilian music. Born in 1943 in Cachoeira in the heart of the Recôncavo region in the state of Bahia, the man with a soft voice and an easy laugh, who lived in Angola for nearly 20 years, made…
