Due to circumstances beyond our control, the entire US tour by Lenine, including the May 1 performance at Cedar Cultural Center, co-presented with The Walker Art Center, has been cancelled. We sincerely regret any inconvenience this may have caused.
Brazilian songwriter, singer and guitarist Lenine took his Recife roots and added the sounds of Northeastern Brazil to the rich mix of MBP (Brazilian Popular Music). After several groundbreaking albums and a groundswell of popularity in his homeland, multiple Latin Grammy Award-winning artist Lenine (né Oswaldo Lenine Macedo Pimentel) is finally gaining the attention he deserves in North America as one of the finest songwriters working in Brazil today.
The flavors are new. Singer, composer, arranger, guitarist and producer, Lenine has been labeled "the new prince of Brazilian pop." His music is based on the maracatu tradition from Recife, in Pernambuco, his native state in the northeast of the country. He compares himself to a chameleon, always changing colors. He chooses them intuitively and describes how he spreads them with a leisurely mixed metaphor: "I sort of sway back and forth in a hammock."
“…a samba-rock fusion more rhythmically aggressive than bossa nova but just as melodically lush, with Hendrix-ian guitar and fat electrobeats pushing the sound into heavy funk territory.” –Rolling Stone
Tonight's performance is copresented with the Walker Art Center.
$35 reserved seating; $25 general ($21 Walker members); $28 day of show
