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Lucas Santtana

ルーカス・サンタナ　/　るーかす・さんたな

Singer from Brazil

October 18, 1970 (age 55)　・　Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Bahia
singer
composer
record producer

My Take

Santtana is the one on this list I'd most want to sit and listen to. Coming from Salvador, the spiritual root of so much Brazilian music, he could have coasted on bossa nova nostalgia. Instead, on Sem Nostalgia, he took João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi and ran them through samples and mashups, dragging a sacred tradition forward rather than embalming it. That refusal to be merely reverent is what I love. Preservation by reinvention is harder and braver than imitation. He treats heritage as a living instrument, and to me that's the truest kind of respect a Bahian artist can pay.

Overview

Lucas Mascarenhas Santana (born October 18, 1970), known as his stage name Lucas Santtana, is a Brazilian singer, composer and producer from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. In his CD, Sem Nostalgia (YB Music, 2009), he recreates the Brazilian guitar tradition, mixing up sounds from the 1950s, like João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi, with mashups, samples and his own creations.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Lucas Santtana
Name (Japanese): ルーカス・サンタナ
Reading: るーかす・さんたな
Born: October 18, 1970 (age 55)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Libra / Dog
Origin: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: singer / composer / record producer / jazz musician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
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4. Personality

Motto

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8A

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