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The BOTO, the pink dolphin, is a character from popular Amazonian culture. It is said that
during local festivities and full moon nights, he appears transformed into a very handsome
man in a white suit.

Our group was created in 2018 in the city of Barcelona, ​with the desire to promote an
Amazonian experience, through myths, warm rhythms and bright colors with a tropical
atmosphere, for a tasty mix with a tropical sound that connects us with many nationalities.
BOTO was born out of the need to promote and spread these cultures, still very little known,
even in Brazil.

Our family is made up of artists with different backgrounds. We were united by the common
interest generated by our "northern" culture, in northern Brazil. As with the foundations of the
formation of what is today Brazilian culture, we are a group with various accents and artistic
expressions united by the interest in researching and reproducing some of the music present
in this cultural richness that is Brazil.

We want to share with the public part of this mixed heritage, through a visual and sound
environment that leads us to the Amazon tropical imaginary. ​Our music is especially
danceable​, ​and we transmit that energy to the audience​. We tell the myths and legends of
the region through the lyrics of ​our ​songs, whether from local tradition or original creations,
once again evoking images and the atmosphere to take the audience on a journey through
rivers and rainforests.

DIFFERENTIAL FACT
Our mission is to spread this Amazonian culture still very little known in Brazil and even
further abroad. A culture still in the process of settlement that is reinvented with each new
encounter. ​Being a ​pioneering group in bringing and sharing these styles, we have aroused
a lot of curiosity from the Barcelona public and other entities and professionals of Brazilian
popular culture who live in the city.

Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85u1pJ1snc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdgNKAQSyNE

Format
An 80 min show in the afternoon / evening, for all types of audiences, of all ages, using
mixed stages and audiovisual elements. A group of six musicians who embody different
aspects of this tropical indentity​. The audience is an active part of the event, immersed in a
wild and tropical atmosphere, and we connect with it through music, dance, stories and
rituals.

The journey ​takes you on a voyage ​through a musical repertoire that presents us with
features of everyday life, of ancestral stories, where the singers give us moments ​in​between
songs and tales, and take us, beyond popular legends, ​to ​the stories of rivers and festivities.

Members
César Vasconcelos - Bass and choirs; Clara Nascimento - Executive Production; Ja
Munhoz - Singer, guitar and dance; Jeca Mó - Singer and dance; Jerry Zeta - Drums
and backing vocals; Néstor López - Saxophone and choirs; Pedro João - Guitar and
backing vocals; Elaine Fernandes - Ball

Néstor López (Barcelona) - ​In 2017 he obtained a Higher Degree in Jazz Performance and
Modern Music from the ESEM Musicians Workshop in Barcelona. He has played and
collaborated with groups such as La Clave Quartet, Kaué & The Ray-Band, Guataca Latin
Jazz Quintet, André Marchiori Trio, Ganzá, among others. He is currently part of Boto and at
the same time develops his solo music project, which alternates with his work as a teacher.

César Vasconcelos (Brazil) - ​He studied electric bass with Eric Budney and popular guitar
at the Universidade Livre de Música - Tom Jobim (São Paulo) with Camilo Carrara and
Arismar do Espírito Santo. As a bassist he has accompanied artists and participated in jazz
groups (Lanny Gordin, Billy Magno), samba (Oswaldinho da Cuíca), Arabic music (Sami
Bordokan), rumba (Alikyns), flamenco (Agartha, Aduna) and electronic music ( Dopamine),
among others. He currently plays with the group Boto and the Maracujazz Project.

Jerry Zeta (Argentina) - ​Studies at the Conservatory of Music of La Plata, in Buenos Aires.
In 2004 he moved to Barcelona to continue his studies at the Escola de Música de Badalona
for three years. Percussionist composer, is part of several musical projects that include
different musical genres: Gadjo (World music), Control zeta y sus cholos (Latin music) and
Boto (Brazilian music).

Pedro Bastos João (Brazil) - ​He has a degree and graduate in Music from the University of
Brasília, Cristina Heeren Flamenco Art Foundation in Seville and a Postgraduate Degree in
Flamenco Guitar Music from the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona. He has lived in Barcelona
since 2008. He has been a member of the choro groups Nubuteco and the Roda de Choro
de Barcelona, ​professor of Introduction to Chorus at the WIM festival. Composer of the discs
Férias de Mim and Naif with the singer Nega Lucas, and guitarist in the discs Malungo and
Ayom with the composer Jabú Morales and the disc Solo Sagrado touching in the festivals
Brazilica Festival, in England; Ax Brazil, in Granada, and Brazil Day, in Barcelona. He is the
musical director and composer of the project "Chorando al compás" and participates in the
VollDamm 43rd Barcelona International Jazz Festival. In addition, he develops his personal
project "Cordas Ibero-Brasilianas", where he mixes flamenco and Brazilian music.

Jeca Mó (Brazil) - ​She began her musical career as a singer, songwriter, percussionist and
artistic director in the project "Mestre Madruguinha", working with rhythms such as cumbia,
salsa, lambada, stamp and other dance styles . He has also given music-theater concerts
with his own songs and music in a more intimate format. He now lives in Barcelona and is
part of the group Boto (Amazonian rhythms), Cabra Xaxado (forró) and three other duo
projects (voice and guitar) where he explores rhythms such as blues, jazz, samba, flamenco
and bolero. , others.

Juan Munhoz (Brazil) - ​Musician and music producer, actor, biologist and educator. He is a
member of the groups ​Jongo na Telha and ​Gira - Tambores do Brasil​, on the search for
popular games. In Brazil he had his initiation into northern popular culture in 2014 with the
groups ​Batuque do Igapó​, ​Colectivo Cabocla​, ​Dibob da Silva and ​Carimbloco​.
Currently, in Barcelona he produces the groups “​Boto - Sonora Tropical Amazónica​” and
the cover ​Cabra Xaxado​. In the performing arts he has participated in the ​Cia. das
Histórias​ and ​Vila Pererê​, and is currently part of the ​Pia Fraus - Europa​ team.

Co-founder of the ​AME-Artistas Metroviarios collective, he directed the drums of the

"​Cartola é do Catete​" and "​Pandeirada - Brasil de Cara​" blocks, as well as promoting
international educational projects such as ​Escuela Artística Callejera ​(2014), in Chile; the
Setmana Jove (2017), ​Tallers Musicals d’Avinyó (2017) and ​TUDANZAS (2018 and
2019), in Spain.

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