Sandra de Sá
Sandra de Sá
Brazilian SoulBaticum opens with a groove so thick it practically drags you into the record. Sandra de Sá's voice has real grit to it, more soul singer than the typical MPB smoothness, and it's what separates this from a lot of its Brazilian peers. The Pot-Pourri medley is the ambitious swing of the record, stitching Afro-Brazilian religious chant into the pop structure. Puro Som ends things on the most stripped-down note of the whole side.
