Agenda van muziekcafé Scooter’S Leeuwarden

Kadu Mota ( Brazil)

Mata Mata & Kadu Mota live @ Cafe Scooters Leeuwarden the Netherlands

Mata Mata is een groovende pompende liveband die Braziliaanse Funk combineert met Blues(Rock)

Drums - Pandu Windartono
Percussion & Backing vox - Reinaldo Gaia
Guitar & Vox - Kadu Mota
Bass - Dennis Hemstra

Kadu Mota is singer, songwriter, producer, and one of the most interesting guitarists of his generation. The musician was born in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, but grew up in the suburb, where he, self-taught, learned to play guitar at the age of nine. After impressing everyone with his musicianship, at twelve he won his first electric guitar. And among the cream of brazilian music and his passion for rock and the blues, his first compositions were born. In the late '90s, at the height of the "Mangue Beat", Kadu left Rio to the city of Recife, where he could experience the whole atmosphere of one of the last significant movements of expression and innovation in brazilian music. The result of this immersion is seen today in his shows, where he skillfully blends a unique rebel and heavy rock with the sensitivity and delicacy of northeastern themes. Back in Rio, Kadu joined college at UFRJ to study Language and Literature, but soon dropped out after interviewing Cassia Eller (a legendary brazilian rock singer, tragically dead in 2001) in a radio show where he started working as an announcer, promoting music from independent artists. Kadu and Cassia played together the song "Yer Blues" by The Beatles, live. This meeting was decisive for the musician to compose, produce, and release the first album of his band at the time, called "Eletrorfeu", while he was also playing in several gigs across the country, as a guitarist. In 2007, Kadu recorded the first album of "Creme Crackers" - a rock band with another singer and songwriter, Sid Mazzei - which gathers some of his best compositions and performances as a singer and guitar player. The band is still in business making concerts and producing their second album. The following year, Kadu has produced the album "Dub Wise Town," with DJs Fernando D. and Livio Maddalena, in his own apartment, providing all tracks on the Internet for free. The musician is now about to release his first solo album, which has, among his own compositions, a version of John Lennon's "How do you sleep?", track released in April 2009, at the CD "John Lennon - Music & Lyrics", produced by music researcher Marcelo Froes and released by his label, "Discobertas."