Casuarina

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Created in September, 2001, Casuarina is one of the top groups of Rio de Janeiro`s new samba and choro scene. Formed by Daniel Montes (7 string guitar), Gabriel Azevedo (percussion and vocal), João Cavalcanti (percussion and vocal), João Fernando (mandolin and vocal)and Rafael Freire (cavaquinho and vocal), the group is part of a generation which, lacking the influence of the more traditional and representative part of Brazilian popular music, started by listening, searching, researching, and consuming the sambas that one day gave Brazilian music its own identity, the same sambas that for long were becoming exponentially disregarded. This new generation of musicians, producers, and admirers of the samba and the chorinho brought back the taste of the Brazilian people to the rhythms. New monothematic groups and, inspired on the work of genius composers, started to present set lists that were already part of our subconscious, with new arrangements and production. Rio`s neighborhood, Lapa,