Lucas Santtana

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.

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

Occupation

singer / composer / record producer / jazz musician

Motto

Private

• 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

Tags

• Bahia
• singer
• composer
• record producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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