Raoní Lima Maciel, guitar
Caio Felipe Ferreira Nascimento, keyboards
Nelmário Marques Cerqueira, bass
Caio Oliveira Dos Santos, percussion
Joilson Dias Dos Santos, drums

Margareth Menezes’s first appearance in Slovenia was at a concert at Cankarjev Dom in 1991, three years after Gilberto Gil’s epochal concert at Križanke. Gilberto Gil was one of the first in the wave of Brazilian musicians who have been filling our concert halls since 1988. He was followed by giants such as Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben Jor, Milton Nascimento, Maria Bethânia, João Bosco, Marcos Valle, Tania Maria, Eliane Elias, Ivan Lins, and others.
Like Gil and Caetano, Margareth Menezes is from Salvador (Bahia). Faithful to her musical roots, she mixes Brazilian (samba), Afro-Caribbean, reggae, calypso, salsa and pop elements in a genre known as Brazilian Afropop. Loaded with aesthetic symbologies, the Afropop movement aims to preserve tradition and history while adding layers of innovation, in this way forming something completely new, inspiring and contemporary. All this can be heard on Margareth Menezes’s many albums from the early Elegibô,  produced and championed by David Byrne (Talking Heads), to Autêntica  (2019), nominated for a Latin Grammy. In 2021 she was named one of the 100 most influential black personalities in the world.
With her powerful voice and infectious, rhythmic, unstoppably danceable music, Margareth Menezes is not just a musician, she is also the current Brazilian minister of culture. She has frequently performed with Gilberto Gil (himself minister of culture from 2003 to 2008), including on her 2008 album Naturalmente  and at the opening concert of Expo 2008 in Zaragoza. Come and join the dance!

In collaboration with: Brane Rončel

• Margareth Menezes is a legend of Brazilian popular music
• her 1989 album Elegibô  topped Billboard’s Top World Albums chart
• she has recorded eight albums; her third studio album Kindala  also broke through in the USA
• in 2006 she was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album category
• in 1991 she sold out eleven nights at the Roseland Ballroom in New York
• she is best known for her collaboration with Talking Heads frontman David Byrne