Who The Fuck is Tom Ze?

Who the fuck is Tom Ze? Tom Ze? Tom Ze?
Chorus, bridge, repeat, repeat.
Who the fuck is Tom Ze?
Who the fuck is Tom Ze?
Bridge, chorus, repeat, repeat.



I know very little about him, Wikipedia told me just enough to conclude that like most musicians in Brazil (and the world), he is crazy. I love him.

His music speaks to me, profoundly, heavily. Not like Jimi, who almost makes me cringe, or Caetano and all his sadness. Tom is as Brazilian as Jorge Ben, but a crazier, folkier, kind of Brazilian. He is the common “Ze” of Brazil; the everyday working man, who has seen it all and done it all. The fool, the Shakespearean clown. His music carries theatre in it. Ze is humble, yet perseverant.

Repeats, repeats, repeats his message in song. All folks can understand him. People underestimate his intelligence. Tom Ze is insane. Tom Ze is Brazil.


(Can you recognize this from Black Orpheus?)




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