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By Aamir Mannan

Note from BW of Brazil: For most, the name Daúde (pronounced “Dah-ooh-gee”) may not be a familiar name in the world of Pop music. But in Brazil of the 1990s and early part of the 2000s, the name conjured up the image of an attractive, brown-skinned woman with a closely-cropped hairdo and an eclectic mixture of various musical genres mixed together in a uniquely Brazilian manner. As black women are rarely allowed to shine outside of the realm of Samba, even with the heavy Afro-Brazilian influence of the northeastern Bahian music, Daúde was a breath of fresh air when she emerged on the music scene with her 1995 self-titled debut CD.  A featured performer in the popular Black2Black music festival in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, many looked to her appearance as a sign of a comeback that has yet to materialize.

Daúde: The “Black Pearl” of Brazilian Popular Music

(Article features material from the Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira, Real World Records and the artist’s UOL website)

Though this may come as a surprise to those unfamiliar with Brazil’s music scene, Daúde is a rare find: a Black woman in Brazil’s eclectic pop-roots music, known as Música Popular Brasileira (MPB), and the first to fuse MPB with African roots and modern production values, setting the whole thing alight with sensual, driving dance beats.

While many of her peers have been abandoning Brazilian music to undertake rock, hip-hop, techno and

dance, Daúde takes the opposite tack. She looks to see how these forms can be brought back to enhance Brazilian music, not to replace it. The mix is all her own and the style she has created is unique.