- country:Brazil
- region:South America
- style(s):Samba, Traditional
- label:not signed
- type:Band
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:Plataforma De Lançamento
Line up
- Alunmínio (vocals, dance )
- Babal (Drums )
- Cássio Nobre (acoustic guitar, viol machete )
- Dora (backing vocals, dance )
- João do Boi (vocals, pandeiro )
- Nando (musical direction, backing vocals, dance )
- Nicinha (backing vocals, dance )
- Paulo Roberto (acoustic guitar, cavaquinho )
- Zé Carlos (timbal rebolo )
Chula is Brazil's primordial samba, daughter of the semba, carried to Bahia by Bantu slaves and grown up on the sugarcane plantations. As with the delta blues of North America, it set its stamp on much of the popular music that followed it. Unlike the blues however, chula is in danger of dying out, although you might doubt that when you encounter the vital energy of the veteran brothers Joao and Antonio Saturno, popularly known as Joao do Boi John of the Ox, for the cows he keeps and Aluminio Aluminum, for the way he shone, literally, as a sweat-drenched kid on the football fields of his youth. Together with their friends and family from the small community of Sao Braz, they're keeping this seminal style very much alive. Catch it while you can.