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Musician: Davide Giovannini
Location: Brixton, London
Instruments: Batá drums
Music: Cuban
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSICÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýWHERE I PLAYÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 ÌýÌýListen (7'05) to an audio feature recorded at a Cuban Santeria party in Brixton. Presented by Lucy Duran; featuring Cuban-born Londoner Mario Lopez, with Davide Giovannini and friends on batá drums. (Broadcast on Radio 3: 29/1/02)
ÌýÌýListen (4'59) to 'Yemalla' sung and played by Davide Giovannini with friends in Brixton.
 ÌýÌýWatch (4'05) Davide and friends in Brixton.
Where I Play:
We're here in the basement of a house in Brixton. Everybody's come here today to celebrate the Day of the Kings, the three wise kings - it's the sixth of January. In Cuba it's the tradition to have a tambor on this day. A tambor is a party which is, most of the time, religious. And it's where you chant and sing - which means praying as well - for deities of the Yoruba pantheon, which we call orishas.
Some people come because they want to get closer to the music. Some people are initiated in the Santeria religion so they come for spiritual closeness. So we have a mixture of people, you find Nigerian Yorubas singing with us, and Cuban, and Italian, Spanish, whatever - that's really a beautiful thing, that we get together with different kinds of people from different backgrounds. A lot of people know the music nowadays and just love it, so they try to get as much of it as they can.
 Watch a video of Davide and friends in Brixton.
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