Blues singer and guitarist, Nanda Moura participated in the Rolling Stone Sessions last Wednesday, 31st, in São Paulo
Hiding long eyeliner with round sunglasses, Nanda Moura took the stage at the Blue Note, in São Paulo, to present the Rolling Stone Sessions last Wednesday, 31st, and paid tribute to several blues names. Among the songs performed by the artist are “Devil Got My Woman”, by Skip Jamesand “Bumble Bee” by Memphis Minnie.
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“It was a very good experience”, he described Moura after the show. “I loved performing today here at the Blue Note. It really is a different venue, it’s a venue that has a very peculiar energy — people come to listen, to watch the show and listen carefully to what we’re saying, what the people are playing. So, this has a special value for those who are there passing a message, really touching people.”
The musician had the help of a band for part of the songs and even invited Marcelo Naves to play harmonica on “Bumble Bee”, a track included on the album of the same name by Moura. Finishing the performance, the Ceará native combined blues and northeastern music with the repentista’s poem Vicente Reinaldo. Watch:
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The two styles of music that capture me most are blues and northeastern music. It would be inevitable, at some point, that I would end up bringing these two ends together. I picked up a poem by a Ceará repentista poet called Vicente Reinaldo and I adapted it, I made a blues version. This poem brings a very cool message, which I like to pass on to people… It brings a message that touches a lot, makes us reflect, right? For me, it’s the perfect closure.
Asked about the possibility of transforming her love for blues and northeastern music into an album, Nanda explained that there is still a lot to be explored: “At the moment, I hold back a lot, because I really like this vein of traditional blues and I still want to explore this side a lot, you know? Mainly older blues, where I get immersed.”
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“The more I dig, the more I discover and I’m enchanted by the amount of things there are to explore. So, I still intend to explore traditional blues a lot more before I start moving into other styles and starting to make other combinations”, he added. .
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