Marcelo D2 canta Bezerra da Silva
In the backyard of his home in Rio de Janeiro, he played with the verses of Bezerra da Silva. When a teenager, such trickery would put into practice, stalking through the night in Rio. Today, at age 42, he sings as if (again) at home. Like if the samba were his thing. But it is or not? The truth is that even he doesn`t knows. Marcelo D2, the rapper and the singer, is a fine line between the two strands of music. Since it went head first into his solo career after the end of Planet Hemp, in 2001, he was turning away more and more of spoken verse. And he was going to stride toward the samba. So it became even more famous and garnered rave reviews. 
When Bezerra, mentor and center of all this change died in 2005, D2 had been searching for the perfect beat. Mixing rap with samba had officially begun two years earlier with the album In Search of the Perfect Beat. The influence of the master was there. The following year, the MTV Unplugged was released. When he received the news that Bezerra da Silva had passed away on the morning of Jan. 17,he took the first flight of the airlift Sao Paulo-Rio de Janeiro. Upon arriving at the Joao Caetano Theater, in downtown Rio, found Zeca Pagodinho, sat down with beer in hand. "At the funeral of sambista, is celebrated," said the colleague the rapper agreed and cheered.
There, between a story and another about the "reporter of the hill," as Bezerra was called, came the idea of doing a tribute to him. "I got this pounding in my head. You know what?". This year alone, the rapid pace of producer Leandro Sapucahy animated Marcelo D2. In May, they began to concentrate on in the vinyls Bezerra rapper / samba had at home. "First, we selected about 50 songs. Then we reduced to reach the 14 we put on record," he explains.
Marcelo D2 CD Canta Bezerra da Silva (EMI Music) compiles the great music of samba. Se Não Fosse o Samba, Quem Usa Antena É Televisão and Minha Sogra Parece Sapatão are among the chosen. The songsMalandro Rife e Malandragem Dá um Tempo seem to have been made to the voice of D2. The album is sung entirely by the rapper. The team accompanying him also is the first: Jota Moraes arrangements, Carlinhos Sete Cordas, Jerominho Marcos Fernandes and Archangel in the guitars, and Miudinho and Leandro Sapucahy in action on tambourines.
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