Following final month’s unveiling of the title observe, a heartfelt rumba devoted to all the ladies in his neighbourhood, Manu Chao has shared “São Paulo Motoboy” – a brotherly tribute to all the couriers in São Paulo risking their lives each day as they experience their two-wheelers throughout the massive metropolis.
“São Paulo is a respiratory beast. And the couriers are the blood operating by its veins, holding it alive,” he says.
Previous to his worldwide success, Manu Chao was himself a courier in Paris. “São Paulo Motoboy” will inevitably convey up the identical motorcycle-riding staff discovered on the streets of Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, there can even function an immersive documentary depicting the each day lifetime of ‘motoboys’ in São Paulo.
The 13 new songs that make up Manu Chao’s upcoming album, Viva Tu, are impressed by his travels, individuals’s each day lives and the present state of the world. Delivered in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English, notable collaborations embrace Willie Nelson on “Heaven’s Dangerous Day” and French singer Laeti on “Tu Te Vas”.
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