Eduardo Mendonça

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THE PROJECT:

Eduardo Mendonça and Show Brazil! will be conducting a “public drumming and dance rehearsal” . The audience is invited to participate by learning basic Samba dance steps, and Brazilian rhythms played on provided drums, plastic buckets and “tennis ball mallets”.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Eduardo Mendonça, multitalented Brazilian-American recording artist, producer, vocalist, composer and musical arranger, was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Mendonça traces his lineage to a royal African family bearing the hereditary title of Mama-Beka, prophet to the royal court. His grandfather, José Maria de Mendonça, who secretly maintained the Mama-Beka title, is pictured in a rare book, property of the Instituto Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia, which shows the elder Mendonça taking part in a crucial meeting discussing the need for freedom and established social rights for Afro-Brazilian former slaves.

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