According to an announcement shared on the Bum Bum Tam Tam rapper s Instagram page, the concert will take place at the Oasis Wynwood in Miami on Friday, September 3.
The Day Funk Music Came to the Rescue of the Covid Vaccination Program in Brazil brazzil.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brazzil.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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For almost three decades, Brazil’s baile funk music genre has been attacked by conservative groups and reactionary media. Now, however, leading figures from this home-grown hip-hop scene are taking a stand in defense of the Brazilian people, in an attempt to rescue the country from its current political and health crises.
There’s a connection between baile funk and the pandemic in the name of the Butantan Institute, the São Paulo-based body responsible for research and manufacture of supplies for the Brazilian public health system. “Butantan”, in the indigenous Tupi Guarani language, means crushed soil. But it also looks and sounds a lot like ‘Bum Bum Tam Tam’, the title of a 2017 baile funk song by MC Fioti.
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MC Fioti during the recording of the remix version of his 2017 hit Bum Bum Tam Tam, which has become Brazil s COVID-19 vaccine anthem. Credit:
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While Brazil is not the only country in the world struggling to vaccinate its population against the novel coronavirus, it might be the first one to have a vaccine awareness anthem hitting the music charts and promoting trust in vaccinations along the way.
The song is titled “Vacina Butantan,” by MC Fioti, a spinoff of Fioti’s “Bum Bum Tam Tam,” a Brazilian funk song that came out in 2017 in Portuguese and became the first Brazilian music video to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. The original song, which is lyrically pretty simple, features MC Fioti surrounded by women swinging their hips and dancing to the beat.