Baco Exu do Blues on representation: “All my movements are political”

The singer Baco Exu do Blues 28, spoke about the representativeness that your work has — from its artistic name, which makes references to Greek mythology and Afro culture — as well as the projection it has in the world with its audiovisual projects.

“Having the name I have and coming from where I came from, I think all my movements are political, there’s not much to run to. I can sing about anything but […] the very fact that people just open their mouths to say my artistic name is already a political movement”, commented the artist.

Baco participated in winning the award in the “Entertainment for Music” category at the Cannes Advertising Festival in 2019, defeating the clip “This is America”, by Childish Gambino, and “Apeshit”, by the couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z, filmed at the Louvre Museum.

“I understood that people were watching the things that were happening here and that made me very happy, because there is a moment when you see everything very far away”, said the singer in an interview with the Conversa com Bial program, on TV Globo, broadcast this Monday. fair (25).

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This content was originally published in Baco Exu do Blues about representation: “All my movements are political” on the CNN Brasil website.

Source: CNN Brasil

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