Brazilian singer and guitarist João Bosco is one of the heroes of Música Popular Brasileira, discovered by Vinicius de Moraes, promoted by Tom Jobim. Bosco has composed more than 250 songs, many of which have a firm place in Brazilian everyday culture. João Bosco shaped his influences from rock, jazz, African and Arabic music into a unique mixture that has become known beyond the borders of Brazil. He sings about love and carnival and at the same time denounces social grievances. In the 70s, Elis Regina made his samba "O Bebado e a Equilibrista" an anthem against the military dictatorship in Brazil at the time. You have to experience Bosco live: With full physical effort, he looks like a percussionist and presents a mixture of "mouth percussion", vibrating rhythmic playing and lyricless singing. On the guitar he dashes around at insane speed, stops abruptly, drums on the strings better than any beatbox. But he can also play very melancholy. And it is precisely this mixture that makes João Bosco so distinctive. For a unique duo performance, he comes to us together with his main bassist Guto Wirtti, in which the two will combine samba and bossa nova with soul and jazz.

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