Almir Sater

Almir Sater began unpretentiously in the '80s in a genre despised by mass media, the caipira (hillbilly) music, out of sheer passion. Becoming an accomplished violeiro (player of the viola caipira, the ten-string Brazilian instrument executed upcountry) soloist, enjoyed crescent success in the whole country. His doleful compositions and interpretations for songs by his fellow citizens (Paulo Simões, Geraldo Espíndola, Geraldo Roca, among others) became cherished by the urban people anxious for an idealized and romanticized appeal to nature. In fact, Sater was the right man in ...