Bule-Bule

An authentic representative for 32 years of the rural samba and repente (music and verses improvised in the heat of the moment) from Bahia, Bule-Bule has devoted his life to producing music in the tradition of the chulas do sertão, cocos, martelos, agalopados, xote, and marche de pé-de-serra. His work is soaked with Moorish and black influences. A writer of cordéis (northeast Brazilian popular literature sold in fairs hanging from strings or cordéis), Bule-Bule is a stranger to mainstream cultural industry, having made his career in cantador (minstrel) wandering throughout the...