Farofa Carioca

Formed in 1995 in Rio de Janeiro by guitarist Jorge Mário da Silva (Seu Jorge, who was living on the streets since four years earlier, was raised in the poor and violent neighborhoods of the Baixada Fluminense and had two brothers killed), French flutist Bertrand Doussain, and Gabriel Moura, Farofa Carioca evidenced the disposition of mixing several national (samba, axé music, choro, xote) and transnational genres (hip-hop, reggae) already in their name (farofa is a dish made of a mixture of multiple ingredients). The band soon became an octet and started to share live perform...