Having the political and social background of a Brazilian who relocated to Porto, O Gringo Sou Eu presents a unique and personal language through the use of dark beats, creative samples and themes imported from early hip hop and re-imagined as a kind of “revolutionary peoples funk”.
Always candid and without filters, it would be a mistake to think that his songs concern themselves with taking sides, rather, they function as mirrors pointing back at society in all its absurdity. As he recently stated midway through a concert at the Hard Club in Porto, “My father was a trade unionist. Me? I’m nobody. The good thing about not being nobody is that I can talk shit about everyone”.
“My father was a trade unionist. Me? I’m nobody. The good thing about not being nobody is that I can talk shit about everyone”.
