Musicians are reclaiming their roots and languages, fighting for the rights of their people – and soundtracking Hollywood movies
“Though I was born in 1986 I carry with me more than 500 years of resistance,” are the opening words of Katu Mirim’s album, Revolta. They set the scene for the uncompromising lyrics that follows, an assault on colonisation, slavery, inequality, homophobia, and other injustices that beset Brazil five centuries after Portuguese conquistadores arrived.
