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Capoeira Songs

A modern day capoeira song usually referring explicitly to capoeira related topics
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Ginga Original – Mestre Brasilia

Ginga Original - Mestre Brasilia

Here is a beautiful capoeira song from Mestre Boca Rica. Watch the video and see the lyrics in Portuguese. You will find the English translation directly below the video. If you like this capoeira song leave a comment, rate, post it to Facebook or send to a friend!

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Chega pra cá - Mestre Suassuna

Here's a great capoeira song written for Mestre Suassuna by his guest, Professor Artur, also of Itabuna. The song was first performed at Mestre Suassuna's annual event, Capoeirando in January 2004. Thanks to Jcasti for uploading to YouTube.

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Who said? Tell it who told you?

Once I was in a coffee bar in London chatting with a friend of mine and she commented that her father was not a big fan of capoeira, I was intrigued and wanted to know why, how can you not like something that you don't even know? More than that she told me that her father thought that capoeira was connected with some kind of religious cult or something similar to that so I told her that I would write a song about it, because some times people say things about other people or about things that they don't even understand. If we want to talk about capoeira then come to capoeira, practice and train capoeira, live and learn about capoeira then you may say something! The music I wrote goes like this, lyrics below the video:

Meu patua - Song Tutorial

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Contra Mestres Casquinha and Xuxo of CDO wrote the verses to go with this beautiful song. Watch the tutorial with clips of Casquinha himself in action, learn the lyrics, discover more of capoeira's rich mythology and become a better musician yourself.

A patuá is a sacred amulet, magical protection to achieve the famed 'corpo fechado' (protected body) and stay safe in capoeira. As Casquinha tells us a patuá can be anything that is sacred - his berimbau, his friends and the songs that accompany him on life's journey.

E defesa ataque e ginga do corpo

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I love this capoeira song. Like always you can learn a little bit more about Afro-Brazilian and capoeira history through the lyrics which are translated in full below the video. Chorus in italics.

Free Capoeira Music

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The two albums here are long standing classics from two of the most published musicians in the capoeira world - Mestre Suassuna, founder of Cordão de Ouro and Mestre Acordeon, an original student of Mestre Bimba. They both contain absolutely beautiful songs.
Enjoy!