Élizabeth Robert discute avec Rael da Rima, en visite du Brésil,
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Rael da Rima

Rael da Rima est en visite à Montréal depuis un mois, il retourne sous peu à Sao Paolo au Brésil, mais avant, il parle un peu de son expérience et des différents autres artistes rencontrés. Il partage un poème de son enfance et quelques chansons. L'entrevue, réalisée sur le terrain entre les spectacles de Rael, permet d'entendre l'artiste en répétition avec WesLi au Bobard, seul au O'Ciel avec sa guitare, acapella dans un taxi et puis sur CD avec son band des dix dernières années Los Pentagonos du Brésil.

About RAEL DA RIMA myspace.com/raeldarima
Rael da Rima has been in the RAP world for ten past years. But his musical history began long before that. Son of a multi-instrumental father and a singer mother, both self-taught, he’s been influenced by Djavan, Tim Maia, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Benjor, Bob Marley and Racionais MCs, and he’s been going through that way little by little. At the age of 11, he started singing Racionais’ songs. At 14, he played maracatu using samba drums from his elementary school. At 16, he wrote his first song. At 22, a cousin made him play the guitar and his songs were enriched, created from the melodical inspiration, even before becoming rhymes. A good sample of his authorial trade can be found on his very first melodical composition “Vejo Depois” (2005), which can be heard on the documentary that is part of the “Global Lives” project, by David Evan Harris. Rael is one of the ten people who, living in different places around the world, in real adversity circumstances, has his routine “filmed” 24 hours by that project (the trailer can be seen in the link written in the end of this text). Born in the south zone of São Paulo, Rael da Rima has launched two records with Pentágono, has participated in works with great names of the national rap (like Sombra, Kamau, Emicida and Slim Rimografia) and was invited to take part in a very selective group of artists in a TV show called “Som Brasil – Homenagem a Vinícius de Moraes”, shown in 2007 – he has made new versions of classic songs written by Vinícius de Moraes. Rael has sang and rhymed with singers/MCs such as Terra Preta and Criolo Doido, along with Marcel Baden Powell playing the guitar. Marcel Baden Powell is the son of Balden Powell, who was Vinicius de Moraes's partner in the very famous record “Os Afro-Sambas”, 1966. The three rappers were the only artists who were invited to create new verses to songs written by the “Canto de Ossanha” author (lyrics by Vinícius and Toquinho; music by Baden Powell), one of the three songs interpreted by Rael/Criolo/Terra during the TV show, besides “Samba da bênção” and “O Morro não tem vez”. Rael has also participated in a TV series, “Antonia” 2007, directed by Tata Amaral. In July, he’s launching his first single, “Trabalhador”, a mix of reggae and rap. His first album is expected to be in the shops by the end of 2009. In his gigs, Rael plays along with Muka Batera (drums), Bruno Dupre (solo guitar), Xandola (base guitar) and Rafael da Costa (bass).

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