ABOUT
CASALABÊ
MISSION & HISTORY .
The CasaAlabê Project emerged from the desire of the multi percussionist Neney Santos to promote the rights to citizenship of adolescents and children in social vulnerability through Percussion, Art and Culture, as tools for social transformation capable of opening new horizons and perspectives in life.
The project takes place in the city of Salvador / Bahia and currently benefits around 20 children and adolescents between the ages of 7 and 25.
It is a social inclusion project aimed at promoting the rights and citizenship of
adolescents and young people at social risk, through percussion, art and culture.
"We believe in art as a powerful tool to change society, so we use music as an important tool for inclusion and sociocultural integration."
NENEY SANTOS .
Born in Salvador / BA, the multi percussionist Neney Santos responsible for this percussive branch of the Alabê Orchestra, at the age of 19 he went to seek new musical knowledge in Europe where he lived for over 20 years.
During this period, he acquired extensive musical experience playing with several international artists such as Jovanotti at the important Live 8 Roma Music Festival (2006), Mario Venuti, Noemi, Pieter Gabriel and others.
In Brazil, he works with names like Carlinhos Brown, Olodum and Cortesia do Samba.
In his career, Neney also develops authorial works and as an arranger.
Now, with all his musical maturity, he intends to dedicate himself to projects in which he can mix his experience in Europe with his Afro musical roots, which comes from family origins. Neney is alabê from the Casa de Oxumarê where he was raised, home to his family, one of the oldest and most traditional terreiros in Bahia.
With the desire to perpetuate and value these Afro-Brazilian roots through percussion, he founded the CasaAlabê Project for needy young people and children at social risk.
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