MOMO.

Born in Belo Horizonte in 1979, Marcelo Frota developed the MOMO project after a life journey marked by several places of residence, between Brazil, Angola, the United States and then Portugal, where he settled in Lisbon. A singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, MOMO shapes a writing located at the crossroads of Brazilian song, psychedelic folk, MPB and an acoustic pop-rock with flexible arrangements, with a taste for spare forms as well as for more orchestrated textures. Active since the late 1990s, he participated in the early period of Fino Coletivo in the mid-2000s before continuing his solo work. Under the name MOMO, he published A Estética do Rabisco in 2007, then Buscador in 2008, Serenade of a Sailor in 2011, sung in English, Cadafalso in 2013 and Voá in 2017. His trajectory takes him through Brazilian stages, tours in the United States and a European anchor since Lisbon. Across the records, MOMO evolves his repertoire between tropicalist heritage, folk, slow samba and fado-like inflections, without breaking with an intimate approach to song. Among his documented collaborations are notably Marcelo Camelo, involved in the production of Voá, the poet Thiago Camelo on several tracks of the same album, as well as a participation by Camané.