Brazil: Lula and Bolsonaro target victory by singing

In a country where politics remains a popular art, any candidate for an election has his campaign jingle, music that must be heady, evolving and adapted to all platforms.

The interview by phone has barely started and now Hutton Acioli is already pushing the song. At the other end of the line, this 82 -year -old man, soft voice and silver hair, hums, taps in his hands, scratches his guitar. Living in the city of Natal (Nordeste), bordered by the dunes and the ocean, unknown composer of one of the greatest hits of Brazilian music, he does not resist long when it comes to interpreting his work lighthouse.

Sem Medo by Ser Feliz (“without being afraid of being happy”), better known by his refrain, “Lula Lá” (“Lula, there”), has been used for three decades as a country hymn to Supporters of the left leader Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, favorite of the presidential election of October 2. Connected to each meeting, played from bars in popular holidays, the air is known to all Brazilians. He was interpreted by nothing less than Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Beth Cardoso or Gal Costa…

Not easy to define the style of this work, composed in 1989 after the dictatorship. “A waltz mixed with North Rhythms. A mixture of Cat Stevens and Luiz Gonzaga!” Rits Hilton Acioli. But beware: despite romantic words (“Lula lá, shines our star/Lula lá the hope is reborn …),” it’s not a beast “tralalala” “. Saying” Lula there “, that is To say “Lula as president”, represents a dream of justice, social progress and human dignity “.

a “wedding gift” for Lula

Candidate against Jair Bolsonaro, for his sixth participation in the presidential election, Lula did not drop her lifelong jingle. On the contrary. A new version was specially composed by his workers’ party (PT) for the “cuvée” 2022. The words have been adapted to the air and mention the passage in the candidate (“there is a voice that They tried to silence/but this star will not go out. “). Among the performers, we are now counting the stars of the moment: Duda Beat, Pabllo Vittar, Maria Rita …

Proof of its importance, the new “Lula Lá” was revealed symbolically during the launch of the campaign, in Sao Paulo, on May 7, and presented as a “wedding gift” by Rosangela da Silva, called “Janja” , 56, PT activist and new wife of the left leader. “You cannot give so much emotion to a 76-year-old young man. It can give him heart problems!”, Then moved a lula with red-eyed eyes.

In Brazil, the old metalo is anything but an exception. In a country where politics remains a popular art, any candidate must have his campaign jingle. Local elected official, senator, deputy, governor, president of the Republic …: for the election of October 2, where the legislative and regional elections will also compete, all applicants have a campaign anthem, which caused a creative creative effervescence of several hundred, even thousands of compositions.

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