Aleluia, Mateus Aleluia. Um recorte sobre a sua obra

Abstract

Seu Mateus -as he is respectfully called by many in Brazil -is one of the nicknames ofMateus Aleluia, a Bahian artist, singer, songwriter and musician of great importance in the current African[...] origins, started alongside his companions in the musical trio Os Tincoãs, between the 1960s and 1970s, and continued in a solo career from the 2010s to the present. This article, based on a qualitative methodology, seeks to focus on traces of the life and work of Mateus Aleluia, in order to allow theidentification of the hybridism present in the processes of identity related to the musicality created by this Brazilian artist and the importance of his work for understanding the diasporic cultural reconstruction in which this artist is inserted