Martial Art: Mestre Saussuna & Dirceu with "A Morte do Capoeira"

Merry Christmas! Our random tune today is from Brazil and is called A Morte do Capoeira. It is performed by Mestre Saussuna & Dirceu. Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna, who also is known as Mestre Saussuna, is the founder and the head of an international capoeira organization called Cordão de Ouro. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art combining dance, acrobatics and music. Saussuna began practicing capoeira in the 1950s as treatment for a physical handicap in his legs. He has since produced many capoeira shows and has released four CDs, as well as conducting workshops in Brazil and internationally. He has also created a capoeira discipline called the Miudinho Game, with a distinctive rhythm based in the berimbau, which has become known as the distinctive discipline of his school of capoeira. You can find A Morte do Capoeira on his album Capoeira - Cordão de Ouro, released in 1994.

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Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinaldo_Ramos_Suassuna