Elomar

About the artist

Elomar Figueira de Mello is a Brazilian Northeastern composer from the rural area of Vitória da Conquista, in the state of Bahia. The son of a prosperous farmer and his Methodist wife, he has grown up under the influence of both the Christian, Protestant faith and of violeiros, the troubadours that range all Brazilian hinterland singing their own and others’s compositions, with themes related to the cordel literature. He tried to study Music with a Swiss professor living in Brazil

Top songs

1. O Violeiro
2. O Pedido
3. Cantiga de Amigo
4. Incelença do Amor Retirante
5. Na Estrada das Areias de Ouro
6. Arrumação
7. Joana Flor das Alagoas
8. Zefinha
9. Cavaleiro do São Joaquim
10. Retirada

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