Music
Leo Middea
Homesick Brazilian sambas until you can walk from Stortemelk to Sugarloaf Mountain
Who has time for saudade anymore? Leo Middea certainly doesn't. Since he left Rio de Janeiro at the age of twenty with nothing but a guitar on his back - metaphorically speaking - Middea has only been busy with the now, with living. Via India, he ended up in Portugal, where, as an tireless optimist, he already made a bid for the Eurovision Song Contest. It didn't get that far, perhaps because his cheerfulness still sounds typically Brazilian to the ears. It is a highly contagious cheerfulness like the one once invented by Tim Maia and Jorge Ben Jor (A Tabua de Esmeralda!): spirited samba rhythms, group vocals, loose sand, and a smile that blinds your eyes, especially when the sun is shining.
