Rodrigo Amarante Throws a Musical Tantrum in Latest Album, 'Drama'

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

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Starting over can be scary. But not for Rodrigo Amarante. After an established musical career in Brazil, he made the jump to the U.S., where his relative anonymity was a source of creative energy — and an opportunity to reinvent himself.

Amarante's second solo album, Drama, is about rejecting traditional forms of masculinity and embracing imperfections — then releasing them as a beautiful symphony of chaos and, well, drama.

Hear Rodrigo Amarante's live performance of the song "Tara" from his new album.

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0:00.0	Wait, so first of all, how many stone steps did I just climb up to get to you right now?
0:07.0	108.
0:08.0	Are you serious?
0:09.0	What do I, I've got my workout in already then.
0:12.0	We're on the balcony of musician Rodrigo Amarante at his hillside home in the northeastern
0:17.2	part of Los Angeles.
0:18.2	Wait, wait, so what happens when you forget something in your house and you have to go back
0:22.4	up?
0:23.4	I work on my Brazilian butt.
0:25.4	Amarante, who's originally from Brazil, has had an eclectic musical career that began
0:31.0	in his home country with a rock band called Los Hermanos.
0:43.1	To a big 20 plus piece soma band called Orquestra Imperial.
0:54.2	And then he made the jump to the US.
0:56.5	He was the frontman for the indie band Little Joy for a few years.
1:00.2	But what is probably best known for here in the States is the theme song for the Netflix
1:05.0	show Narcos.
1:12.5	Amarante is candid about how hard it is to start over, to move to a new country where you're
1:18.8	the new guy on the scene.
1:20.2	I was somewhat known in Brazil for my music.
1:24.3	When I'm here, no one knew who I was.
1:26.3	What did that feel like?
1:27.3	Still a lot of people don't know who I am.
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