Neguinho do Kaxeta

MC Neguinho do Kaxeta is the alias of Brazilian funk singer Júlio Cesar Santos Ferreira. Born in 1986 and raised in Caxeta, a São Vicente favela on the outskirts of São Paulo, Neguinho began performing in local parties at the tail-end of the 1990s as one-half of the short-lived duo Lan e Neguinho. Soon a solo artist, over the next two decades Neguinho's career mirrored the constant evolution of Brazilian funk (a hybrid of several Black Brazilian genres rather than an iteration of the U.S. version championed by James Brown), which included phases such as conscientes, proibidões...