Centro de Culturas Afro-Brasileiras Mestre Messias

el ! Suas músicas já foram gravadas por grandes intérpretes como a cantora de Jazz Leny Andrade e a estrela do meio rural Rosinha de Valença, e em países como a Itália, a Espanha e os EUA. Mas somente em 2010, após quase 50 anos de estrada como violeiro, intérprete, compositor, professor formado em história e pintor, Messias gravou seu primeiro CD, concluido apenas alguns meses antes do seu falecimento súbito, em 26 de fevereiro de 2011 ! Ele também deixou um legado de aproximadamente 600 de suas pinturas afro-brasileiras de temática rural. A diáspora estende-se até Rio de Janeiro e ao Sul de Minas Gerais, local de nascimento de Messias e região de grande importancia para a cultura afro-brasileira rural. Voltando-se às provincias interioranas do seu Brasil - e ao interior da sua ạlma e da sua nação, a africana Banta - Messias valoriza sua família e as raizes daqueles que foram levados a força para o Brasil. ENGLISH:

About the Center of Afro-Brazilian Culture, remembering Mestre Messias:
Informal association of friends of Messias dos Santos, composer, "violeiro" (brazilian folk-guitar player), painter, poet, history-teacher and thinker, more known as Mestre Messias and admired for his music and his afro-brazilian paintings with rural themes. Messias passed away on february 26th, 2011, leaving behind his legacy with friends and family. Remembering Messias dos Santos:
Messias dos Santos was a very original artist, inimitable ! His songs and compositions have been recorded by important Brazilian artists, including top Brazilian jazz singer Leny Andrade and Country-Star Rosinha de Valença, and outside of Brazil, in Italy, Spain and the USA. But only in 2010, after almost 50 years “on the road” as brazilian folk-guitarrist, interpreter, songwriter/composer, painter and teacher in history, Messias recorded his first CD, concluded only a few month before is sudden death in february 26th, 2011 ! He also left behind a legacy of about 600 of his afro-brazilian paintings with rural themes. The african diaspora in Brazil extends to Rio de Janeiro and to the south of Minas Gerais, place of birth of Messias dos Santos and region of great importance in the rural afro-brazilian culture. Returning to the provinces and the interior of his Brazil - and to the interior of his soul and his nation, the african Banta - Messias prides his family and the roots of those crimped to Brazil.