This is absolutely inspiring.
Here's an article about a recent event in New York featuring her and several other Brazilian Guitar luminaries such as Sergio and Odair Assad; my cousin Arthur Kampela; Romero Lubambo with his wife, the singer Pamela Driggs; Celso Machado; Fabio Zanon; and Yamandu Costa.
No disrespect to Argentina and Uruguay and Paraguay and all those other South American countries. They’ve all produced some excellent guitarists and some fine music. But I wouldn’t have made that drive down, and then a six-hour drive back up the following evening, if the traditional Guitar Marathon of the New York Guitar Festival had been eight hours of Argentine guitarists, or Uruguayan guitarists, or for that matter guitarists from almost any other country in the world. So what is it about Brazil, and Brazilian music, and especially Brazilian guitar music?
During the sound check next morning, while the 92nd Street Y echoed with Portuguese (which sounds like Italian being spoken by Russians), I asked the Brazilians themselves.
“Anthropophagy,” said Arthur Kampela—a man worth listening to, as he (a) was born and brought up in Brazil, (b) he has a Ph. D. in composition from Columbia, and (c) he’s a wild man. Anthropophagy means cannibalism.
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