The United States tour of the backyard ended on Sunday (23) in Los Angeles. Historical reference of Brazilian music, the traditional samba group, formed in the 70’s, attracted public wherever it went. The performances of Sereno, Ademir Batera, Márcio Alexandre, Junior Itaguay and Tiago Testa, began on Friday (14) in New York, went to Boston and then Miami.
The group also did shows in the capital, Washington, and Houston.
“We started there in New York, the audience was simply wonderful, and we really didn’t expect it to be that way. It was very exciting. In Washington, the crowd didn’t want to leave the stage. It was very cool. Wonderful tour, and people asking the backyard back,” said Ademir Batera, in audio referred at the Brazil agency’s request.
Young Students
In addition to the tour, on the 17th, the musicians had a cultural meeting at Ronald W. Reagan/Doral Senior High School, in Doral, Florida, where they talked to bilingual students participating in the project that Beauty Brazil!. The initiative seeks to strengthen the integration of new generations with Brazilian culture. The group had the opportunity to share their stories and show the importance of samba in Brazil and the international scene.
“It was a very tasty energy exchange, we can talk about samba, the emergence of the backyard group for students, a very good energy exchange. First, the surprise of us, from the background group, seeing that there is interest of the new generation to know how it started. As each had the first contact with the song. I, serene and Ademir we answered, the question was very good and it was good to know that they were interested in this, ”said Junior Itaguaypor through audio.
For Sereno, 84, one of the founders of the backyard, the tour represented a deep feeling.
“This is simply wonderful. The backyard has this right to give a talk with young people who are starting to life and want to climb something useful and our culture. It was radiant, there is no greater compliment to do,” said Sereno.
To find the public’s involvement in the compositions that mark the history of the group such as lucidity, friendship and the show has to continue, which cross generations, was one of the highlights of the tour to Tiago Testa. “Wonderful to see the people singing our samba, singing our songs, there is also a lot of Brazilian here in the United States. A new experience, one more for the curriculum, one more for history, thank God, and in the backyard,” Tiago tolds the Brazil agency.
The musician told what he represents for him to integrate this traditional samba group.
“Being from the backyard is like I play in the Brazilian team. It’s a wonderful experience. It’s the biggest group in the universe. I often say that I’m still dreaming of being here, immense responsibility, it’s a joy, it’s all together. An anxiety, that chill in the belly. It’s wonderful!” He said.
Absence
This trip did not attend Bira Presidente, leader of the Cacique de Ramos block, in whose samba wheels came the group, of which he is also one of the founders. The closing of the tour coincides with Bira’s 88th birthday, an important character in the backyard history. “Bira is a guy who is missing in the group. Unfortunately, health prevented him from being present, but God is a father and is round,” he added, confident in his friend’s recovery. Sereno is also founder of the backyard fund.
Near the 50th anniversary, the samba wheels of the backyard, at the headquarters of Cacique de Ramos, in the North Zone of Rio, have a tradition of gathering from the beginning of Brazilian music such as Almir Guineto, Beth Carvalho, Arlindo Cruz, Jorge Aragão, Zeca Pagodinho and Sombrinha.
The group is also recognized as innovative. Ubirany, also a founder, was the creator of the hand repique, which is a characteristic of the backyard background, leading other groups to use the instrument. In addition to the hand repique, Tantã and Banjo with Cabequinho Cape, this created by Almir Guineto, another founder, are innovations of the group, which, among so many awards, won a Latin Grammy.
This content was originally published in a backyard background ends tour that took Brazilian music to the US on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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