Zeu Azevedo

Brazilian singer, songwriter and accordionist Zeu Azevedo is considered to be one of the foremost exponents of Brazilian forró music (music from the North-East of Brazil), in Europe. He began his career at 5 years of age, influenced by his father, Cidinho Azevedo, also a musician and songwriter,and today has over 100 compositions to his name, many of them written in English. He moved to London from Brazil 11 years ago and since then has worked regularly in Clubs and theatres up and down the country. As well as Brazil and the UK Zeu has performed in numerous countries around the world, including Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Portugal, France, Ireland, Belgium, Russia and the UAE. A multi-award winner, he includes the Revelation Trophy, Forro Itaúnas (2010) from Brazil as well as winning the Brazilian Grammy Award as the best Brazilian singer in London and was awarded the Lukas Awards as "Revelation Mundo Latino" in 2012. He will be appearing tonight with his fantastic line up of Brazilian musicians, Rodrigo Vasconcelos on 2nd accordion; Klaus Stahr on bass, Raphael Delphino on drums and Cassio Mateus on zabumba (which for those of you who don’t know is a is a type of bass drum used in Brazilian music where the player wears the drum while standing up and uses both hands to play it). For anyone interested in impressive “World Music” of the highest calibre this is well worth catching.

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