André Sampaio

With an unique language on the Brazilian guitar, André Sampaio brings the sound path created on trips to Mali, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Mexico, Europe and Brazil by deepening the dialogue between ancestry and contemporaneity. He is also known to the general public as the founding guitarist of the reggae band Ponto de Equilíbrio, with whom he recorded four albums and a live DVD.
“… That’s what André Sampaio has been doing for ten years, dedicating himself to the Afro-Brazilian tradition of candomblé and making trips to Mali and Burkina Faso where he spent time with Vieux Farka Touré, Toumani Diabate among others.