Throat singing was locked for a while
like you had to do the traditional songs
in this way and and you stood like this
and you did it like this and you made
these sounds and that was it. And I've
been doing this for so long now that
more and more throat singers are being
more and more open and releasing the
kind of tightness so. I'm waiting for
this next generation to come and I want
to make a choir, of throat singers it’d be so fun.
It’s all these influences that led to  Congolese rumba being what it is today.
The incorporation of the guitar, of wind instruments, and the incorporation of a plethora of singers.
We didn’t know you had to have one singer, with all the musicians.
There was a plethora of singers instead and so things changed,
and we also followed how things evolved around the world.
That's where actually I created what we call the Ethio-jazz music, and we learned the histories of our
contributions. So I thought like if I
really make a study of this thing and
make a research somehow our contribution 
will be realized and given a place in the world.
If not existed a guitar, not existed Bossa Nova.
Bossa Nova is a guitar, a guitar is a fundamental instrument to Bossa Nova.
Joao Gilberto created, no, adapted, the samba beat.
The tambourine.
And the bass makes the third.
I actually had a lot of avenues for just
doing weird stuff at home.
I played other instruments a lot that
there was no pressure around or like no
existing like tradition. I guess that's
kind of the problem like when you have
tradition around an instrument like
there's this whole, it's not really a
problem it can be very beautiful but
there's an entire like technique library, I guess.
Either we used the local
language played on a foreign instrument
and then trying to probably sound like
Rolling Stones, Beatles or something like
that which was not possible and we
didn't realize that so in the end we
created something different it was good
though.
Brazilian music is like American music, it's African music and European music together
you know? I mean what's the... what are the
most exciting musical traditions
Brazilian, American, Cuban you know I'm
saying and they're all in the 20th
century, you know what I mean? and they're like this kind of you know, collision,
fusion, miscegenation whatever.
When people say I love your music,  I say, it's not music.
I even whisper because my grandmother is haunting me.
It's not my music, I found it here! You know, we don't come with nothing here.
