RHYTHM & BLUES AND AFRO-BRAZILIAN MATRICES
Inspired by the mission of connecting music with actions and attitudes on behalf of planet Earth, the Banda Terráquea brings the mixture of R&B with the musical elements of the Afro-Brazilian matrix. Composed by renowned musicians of the Bahian scene and by the North American, rooted in Bahia, Lon Bové (9 Grammy nominations), the band brings a authorial repertoire involving the public in the magic atmosphere of black music.
MUSICIANS
Lon Bové
Singer / Guitar
Lon Bové, the north american bluesman with nine Grammy nominations for his album “M.O.T.H.”, resides today in Salvador researching the various musical rhythms of Bahia.
Singer, guitarist, composer, with a masters degree in education from the Alabama University, the artist brings the blues tradition in its original baggage, also admitting New Orleans “Second Line” music, Surf, Soul, Rock and Rhythm & Blues, mixing all these elements with Brazilian’s Samba, Ijexá and more.
Janis Dominique
Singer
Janis Dominique (25 years old) is a singer, songwriter and actress from Salvador - Bahia. She began her artistic career at age 19 as an actress in a musical honoring Chico Buarque, an event that filled the Eva Hertz theater for its debut, where she performed the songs of the great Chico.
In 2019, he started to get involved in more musical projects, such as presentations at parties, events, bars, and in 2020 he released his first single entitled by Venus, being one of his first compositions released, with this he gathered more than 6K of plays on the internet. Spotify. So she started her solo career, appearing in articles such as BNews, and other media.
Gabriel Bové
Singer
Gabriel is the son of the North-American musician Lon Bové and Brazilian journalist Aina Kaorner. The 18 year old singer has been surrounded by art and music since he was in his mother’s belly.
Besides interpreting music by Ed Sheeran, Red Hot Chili Peppers and even Frank Sinatra, Gabriel has compositions of his own and founded a “reggae metal” band called Crayons.
In Banda Terráquea, Gabriel does backing vocal alongside his dad and sings some of the main hits on the streaming platforms.
Gilmar Chaves
Trombone
Graduated in the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Trombone.
He’s been an acting musician as a Trombonist from March 7th 1993 to this day.
Gilmar is a proud member of the Rumpilezz Orchestra, in Salvador.
Ivanzinho Pacapuco
Percussion
Percussion master at Banda Terráquea! A veteran in Bahian music, he has played and recorded with the main names in Axé Music and MPB, such as Daniela Mercury, Claudia Leitte, Fafá de Belém, Ana Carolina and Maria Bethânia.
His solo is marked by the beats and rhythm of sacred Afro-Brazilian rituals and only those who’ve witnessed it know the energy that pours out of our stage!
Victor Brasil
Drums
Victor has come from a family of musicians. As a young drummer, he stood out in Bahia’s musical scene, soon being requested to play with huge national and international figures such as Jonatan Nascimento, Ivan Huol, Daniela Mercury, Paulinho Boca de Cantor, Pepeu Gomes, Luiz Caldas and Armandinho Marcelo.
Victor takes part in various musical projects, including with artists like Mou Brasil, Paulinho Boca de Cantor, integrating the Jurassik Quartet and Daniela Mercury’s band, Banda Terráquea and the Radio Terra project.
Mikaele Soares
Singer
Since I was a teenager, I imagined music as a safe place to manage my emotions, a place of refuge where I could express myself and be who I wanted to be.
I believe that music elevates us, transmutes us and directs us to incredible places. I also believe in a free, healthy, organized teaching of music where good will is above just obligatory learning.
Satisfaction in learning music brings continuous musical making, resilience in the face of difficulties not only in the world of music, but in a lifetime, in this way musical learning is consolidated and does not end in the face of any difficulty.
The purpose of music classes is to promote musical experiences, to present innumerable ways of how there can be development in one or more specific instruments.
The classes will also offer some aspects about music and its sounds, promoting participatory classes, musical workshops of vocal techniques, instrumentals and composition where creativity will be a special ingredient.
Born in Fortaleza-CE, Mikaele Soares, began his studies in music at the age of 11, went through several artistic institutions such as: Instituto Pão de Açúcar, Sesi-CE, Osquestra Filarmônica do Ceará, Conservatório de Tatuí-SP, Instituto Federal de Goiás, Orquestra Sinfônica Jovem de Goiás where he participated in the tour performing at the Beethoven Festival in Germany, performed with renowned musicians including Yamandú Costa, Renato Borguetti, participated as a guest at the Villa Mix festival in the show by the duo Matheus and Kauan, among other shows.
She is currently a graduate teacher, licensed in music and has been teaching since 2014 in the project of her own, Música Educa in Camaçari-BA, she has trained over 300 students in musicalization courses and specific instruments such as guitar, ukulele, viola, violin, singing, keyboard and recorder.
Luiz Rocha
Harmonica
It is with great satisfaction that I come to present myself musically! My name is Luiz Rocha, and since 2003 I've been playing the harmonica in concerts and recordings, from blues to rock, from soul to funk, from country to pop, from reggae to regional music, in addition to teaching and lecturing on this magnificent instrument.
I have already performed on several stages in Salvador with a band, launching in 2008 the authorial album entitled "Pise Fundo", and I endorsed the harmonica maker "Bends Harmônicas" during its existence, playing at Expo Music SP for three consecutive years to represent the Soteropolitan harmonica.
Also one of the main attractions at the VI Fórum Harmônicas Brasil (Fortaleza), at the 1st Blues Festival in Camaçari and Capão, I idealized the project "Papo de Gaita", which has been promoting the culture of this instrument in Salvador/Ba and circulated in the Recôncavo , by FUNCEB's Sectoral and Music Notice, promoting the harmonica band Zona Harmônica, born from this project, and which I also joined.
Anyway, in addition to these and others, I've been working for years in the band Terraquea and I'm very happy and excited to start harmonica classes at Projeto Rádio Terra, where I promise to balance theory and practice, and use a simplified language to convey the fundamentals and curiosities of this "great" instrument that I admire so much!
Gleison Coelho
Saxophone
Saxophone player and flutist from Salvador, he studied Saxophone in the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), as well as FUNCEB’s Universo Percurssivo Baiano course (Bahia’s Percussion Universe) and Rumpilezzinho, with the conductor Letieres Leite.
Founder of the Saxophones & Percussion Quartet IJESAX, he has accompanied orchestras, bands and artists such as Mateus Aleluia, Lazzo Matumbi, Banda IFÁ, Orquestra Afrosinfônica, Okwei Odili, Maglore and others.
Currently, Gleison is one of the horn players in Banda Terraquea, also participating in the orchestras Sonora Amaralina (Cumbia) and Skanibais Ska Orchestra (Ska).
Lucas Decliê
Saxophone
Founder of the Quarteto de Saxofones e Percussão IJESAX, Lucas has accompanied orchestras, bands and artists such as Mateus Aleluia, Lazzo Matumbi, Banda IFÁ, Orquestra Afrosinfônica, Okwei Odili, Maglore, and others.
Currently, Decliê is one of the four horn players in Banda Terráquea, besides participating in the orchestras Sonora Amaralina (Cumbia) and Skanibais Ska Orquestra (Ska). He was featured in Capão’s Jazz Festival in 2019, representing UFBA’s Music School with the quartet Alquife. Lucas has played and recorded with several artists, such as the following: Banda Terráquea, Orquestra Rumpilezz, Mou Brasil, JAM no MAM, Skanibais, Sonora Amaralina, Marcia Short, Saulo Fernandes, Lazzo Matumbi, Larissa Luz, and others.
Vanessa Melo
Singer
Graduated in clarinet from UFBA in 2012, Vanessa Melo is a versatile, curious and educational artist. She participated in Neojiba, performed in several meetings of national and international clarinetists, integrated the Rumpilezzinho and the Pradarrum project of the great percussionist and alabê Gabi Guedes as a clarinetist and singer.
She opened Carnival 2015 alongside Lazzo Catumbi and Tote Gira in the project “Batuques de Coração”, she is a member of Banda Alma, has made many appearances in addition to being the ambassador of Ethno Bahia, the musical exchange project of the NGO Jeunesses Musicales International that ends to take place in the Recôncavo.
Vitor Magalhães
Bass
Bass player, acting in Brazilian's musical scene since 1993.
Vitor’s career started by following artists in his hometown, Salvador. He has worked with highly esteemed Bahian artists, such as Victor Brasil, Lon Bové, Banda Terráquea, SuperVotz and many others.
He has taken part in various projects with artists of national renome, recorded CD and DVD tracks and accompanied tours all over Brazil.
Alongside Lon Bové, Vitor is a member of Banda Terráquea, a band founded on diversity that mixes information from the regional Bahian music with international influences, all joined to a social - educational model.
Jair Rocha
Drums
Drummer and Songwriter.
Musician with substantial experience in the recording and performing market.
He’s an integrating member of the band MANOSPRETO. Jair has worked with Jauperi, Carla Visi, Hugo Sanbone Trio, Daganja, the Cabeça de Nós Todos group, Dagama (former guitarist from Cidade Negra), Luedji Luna, Parangolé and others.
Jair is active in Salvador 's reggae scene. He’s played with international artists such as Papa Zodiac, Mitchell Brunings (Bob Marley’s official cover artist) and the Kingstomstage band.
Angela Velloso
Singer
Angela Velloso grew up around music because of her father’s routine, the guitar player, arranger and composer, Duarte Velloso. She has been singing and composing since she was a child. In school festivals, she was awarded Best Composition and Best Interpreter, soon following her first concerts in Salvador.
Angela studies Popular Music at the Federal University of Bahia, where she ranked in first place in 2016. In 2019 she left for a year-long exchange program in Germany’s Mannheim University, to study Jazz and Popular Music.
Her first album, Reisen, also came out that same year; it's available on all streaming platforms. In 2021 she participated in Capão’s Jazz Festival (Festival de Jazz do Capão) with the quartet “Angela Velloso Quarteto” and, alongside the group Jacarandá, recorded ‘Queda D’água’, the winner arrange of the XIX Festival da Educadora FM. In 2022, she performed in the Festival Garcia D’Ávila with her Quartet.
Currently, Angela is recording her second album and participating in several parallel projects. Today, she is a singer at Banda Terráquea and works as a Singing & Musical Theory teacher.
Isaias Rabelo
Piano
Isaias Rabelo was born and raised in Periperi, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The musician began his professional career at 11 years old, playing piano for his church’s band and choir. He’d been teaching himself at the time, never before taking piano lessons.
At the age of 13, he was accepted into an extension Piano course at UFBA, where he dedicated his studies for four years, until joining the university as a graduation student.
He got two degrees, the first being a Licentiate in Music from Bahia’s Federal University (UFBA) and the latter a bachelor’s in Administration from UCSAL.
Isaias attained a post graduation degree in music therapy. He is considered a reference as a jazz pianist in Bahia.
Isa Meirelles
Singer
Isa Meirelles is a singer, composer, voice teacher and a graduating Popular Singing student at UFBA.
She has integrated bands such as Banbaile, Voo de Baile and Salsa e Dendê. With them, she performed in events like a Feira da Cidade and a Varanda do Sesi. Isa participated in Salvador’s Carnival as a member of Sarajane’s band in the year of 2017; With the artist Iane Gonzaga, she recorded the album “Territoriamente”, and with Rafael Ávila, the album “Eu Não Sou o Chico”.
She performed her first solo concert in 2018, where she could express her views of music, mixing her original songs with national covers, under the influence of Afro-Bahian rhythms and Brazilian music.
In 2021, Isa was a finalist of the XIX edition of the Festival da Educadora with the song “Regênese”, composed and performed by herself and Jordi Amorim.
For the past two years, Isa has been acting as a Vocal Director, a private singing teacher as well as integrating the FOCO - Usina de Artes team as a music teacher (choral singing and music for spectacles) for Elementary and Middle School aged students. In the years of 2020 and 2021, she has ministrated vocal workshops both for children and adults.
Everaldo Pequeno
Trumpet
Born and raised in Salvador, Bahia, Everaldo do Espírito Santo has been an acting professional musician since 2002, playing the trumpet.
Throughout his carrer, Pequeno has worked and played alongside various bands and artists from Bahia’s musical scene, like Timbalada, Adão Negro, Jau Peri, Pierre Onassis, Aldemário Coelho, Carlinhos Brown, Ivete Sangalo, Adelmo Case, Pedro Mariano, and others.
In 2011, Everaldo joined UFBA’s Music School (EMUS), where he was privileged enough to study with renouned trumpetists from all over the world, such as Joatan Nascimento, Heinz Karl Schwebel, Charles Schlueter, Adan Rapa, Nailson Simões…
Everaldo concluded his bachelor’s degree in 2014. In 2016 he returned to UFBA for a master’s degree, which he attained in 2018. He’s currently a Music Licentiate student at UFBA still.
Everaldo Pequeno, as he’s known in the artistic realm, has a wide range in his music career, working as a freelancer in recordings, such as participating in Will Carvalho’s and Gerônimo Santana’s DVDs, also playing with groups like the Orquestra Afrosinfônica, Adão Negro, Terra Samba, BaianaSystem, Margarete Menezes, Leo Santana, among others.
He’s taken part in important events such as the International Trumpetists Meeting organized by the ABT (Brazilian Trumpetists Association), as a guest trumpetist on the Western Illinois University Jazz Band, in an exchange program promoted by UFBA in the year of 2014 in Salvador.
He is a founding associate, trumpetist and suit leader in the Orquestra Afrosinfônica, where Everaldo had the privilege to participate in concerts alongside great artists and instrumentists like Maria Bethânia, Chico César, Mateus Aleluia, Sizão Machado and Toninho Horta.
Pequeno also has worked and keeps working as a trumpetist in other Bahian orchestras, such as: a Orquestra Rumpilezz, a Banda Filarmônica da UFBA, UFBand, Orquestra Sinfônica Popular de Camaçari, Orquestra de Todos os Santos, Orquestra Benutti, Banda Sinfônica da UFBA, Sanbone Pagode Orquestra, showing his versatility by visiting both popular and classical music.
Marcelo Rocha
Bass
Performance:
Bassist, Composer, Arranger, Music Director, Music Producer, Partner/Musician of Banda Manospreto.
Training:
Licensing in Music/UNEB.
Musical Instrument Technician / Electric Bass CEEP - Music
Teaching Monitor of the Music Course/UNEB of the Components: Research and Pedagogical Practice I 2021.1; Collective Musical Practices I in 2021.2
Experience:
27 years
Experience in Culture Council:
Former Councilor of the Municipal Council for Cultural Policies of Salvador do Territorio Cabula/Tancredo Neves.
Sugarcane Method Course Training in Collective and Community Cultural Production.
Marcelo Rocha, musician with extensive experience in the recording and concert market.
He worked for 04 years with the producer and music entrepreneur from Bahia, Wesley Rangel, at WR studios, recording CDs, jingles and tracks.
Experience in Studio and Shows:
Carla Visi, As Meninas, É o tchan, Gum with Banana, Vixe Mainha, Sarajane, Walter Queiroz, Renato Fechine, Jorge Portugal, Jeremias, Samba Patrol, Axé Blondie, Daniela Mercury, Saulo, Timbaúba, Caetano Veloso, Ney Matogrosso, Sandra de Sá, Mariene de Castro, Otto, Mariana Aydar, Karina Burh, Baby do Brasil, Gaby Amarantos, Jorge Mautner, Cheik lo (Senegalese Artist), Eládio dos Panteras, Malê de Balê, among others.
DVD RECORDING:
Mônica Sangalo, Lela Badaró, Renato Fechine, Pimenta N’ativa, Cabeça de nos todos and Daniela Mercury.
He shared the stage with big names in international reggae, such as Alpha Blond, Don Carlos, Israel Vibration, Groundation, among others. In Brazil, he has shared the stage with Natiruts, Planta e Raiz, Mato Seco, Vibrações, Edson Gomes.