comedian Tiffany Haddish is busy. She's acting, producing, but she says she's not just doing it for herself.

How much generation of wealth are you creating when you get to tell a story and give other people opportunity to tell that story with you?

Tiffany Haddish, on her power in Hollywood. Listen now to the It's Been a Minute podcast from NPR.

For NPR music, you're connected to All Songs Considered I'm Bob Boylin. There's new music from Rodrigo Ramarante.

And today on All Songs Considered, a conversation with this great Brazilian born, now L.A. based musician,

I'll play songs from drama, his first solo album in seven years, and one of my very favorite albums of the year.

And on this guest DJ show, Rodrigo will pick a few songs that influenced him, and we'll also hear a new collaboration he's done with a living Brazilian legend.

But let's settle in and hear a bit from the album drama and a song called Tanto.

Tanto de longe a promela, quanto de dentro, e o amando, vestuando o lado do céu,

velquido pés, sítis fãs, sinu flensão, adem, que de prós, eu vim brilhar,

e de vieis o acú, cadravés o cudo, entre congel, o meu lelo.

Eu sei bem o que sempre mais, eu tenho tempo que ir, mas ela com uma pele,

e eu tenho tempo que ir, mas ela com uma pele.

When I spoke to Rod Rieger Amarante, he was in his Los Angeles home.

I was in my apartment in the Washington DC area.

And the conversation began simply talking about life.

Sometimes life feels like it's a script that we're influencing with our will.

And I feel lucky that way, right?

I feel like sometimes I can't believe this is coming through.

I've always wanted to do this or this and that, right?

But right before the pandemic, I wished for the world to stop.

That was the...

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