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Wed September 27th, 2017
7:30PM
Beacon Theatre
Minimum Age: All Ages
Doors Open: 6:30PM
Show Time: 7:30PM
Event Ticket: $79 / $99
*This is a seated event at Beacon Theatre: 2124 Broadway, New York, 10023, NY, US*
Seu Jorge, one of Brazil’s most talented contemporary singers, rose to international fame in the Wes Anderson film The Life Aquatic. In his acclaimed role, Seu Jorge performed several of David Bowie’s songs in the film—but in a twist, he did it in Portuguese, accompanying himself simply on acoustic guitar.
After three sold out shows at The Town Hall in 2016, Seu Jorge returns to NYC with his tribute to Bowie live at Beacon Theatre on September 27th.
“Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs in Portuguese, I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with.” – David Bowie
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“Singer Seu Jorge, says he recognized himself in the character he plays in the Brazilian film City Of God: a bus driver named Mané Galinha who’s caught up in violence in 1970s Brazil.
Before he became an internationally acclaimed Brazilian music star, Seu Jorge was a kid growing up in a similar favela to the one portrayed in the film, right outside Rio de Janeiro. His own brother was killed in the ongoing violent confrontations with the police. “I lost my brother. … My life was really hard,” Seu Jorge says. “I didn’t have a job over there. … Education was very, very poor. And it’s still like that. The only thing that is different is my choice. … I think I was a product of luck and hard work.”
While the character of Mané Galinha turned to a life of revenge and crime, Seu Jorge chose music and acting. It nonetheless cost him dearly: By his early 20s, he was homeless. But he was also acting in a university playhouse, performing at a bar in northern Rio and playing in bands; his big break came when rapper Marcelo D2 invited him to play drums with the group Planet Hemp. “Marcelo D2, he saved my life,” Seu Jorge says.
Seu Jorge became a household name in Brazil in 2001 with the release of his second album, Samba Esporte Fino. It was also his first international album, in which he mixed the disco and funk he’d fallen in love with as a kid with traditional Brazilian sounds.” [Jasmine Garsd, NPR]