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Caipira Coffee with Musician Simon

02/08/2020

 

Born in 86 in the city of São Paulo, Diego lived there until he was two years old, when his family from Uruguay moved back to Brazil.

country from which he had emigrated because of the military dictatorship fourteen years earlier. He was brought up in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo, Diego recognizes himself as "uruguay(cho)o" but he maintained direct contact with São Paulo until the age of 15. In 2011, after a few years without returning, he visited São Paulo to take an exam at EMESP, where he won a full scholarship to study cello with cellist Vana Bock, OSUSP's cellos spalla, and joined the second cello section of the São Paulo State Youth Orchestra, with which he played at the Sala São Paulo and at the Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival.

In 2012 he returned to Uruguay to play in the José Artigas National Youth Orchestra. It wasn't until 2015 that he ventured out to find his own voice, to sing solo. It was then that Simon was born, that alter ego capable of singing his words in verse. That year he released an album

called En Un Punto (At a Point), which was released here in Brazil this year by Alcalina Records, a label from São Paulo.

"This Sunday's show will be talking to my innermost being. Songs from the album En un punto that are reminiscent of Simon's first voice, but several new compositions and perhaps improvisation depending on the weather, sun and wind."