Ian Lasserre

Ian Lasserre is an Brazilian artist and  singer-songwriter from Bahia, born in 1987. He has released three albums and the second album 'Átimo' was among the 100 best albums on the World Music Charts Europe in 2020. His song 'Minha Bahia' exceeded the mark of 700 thousand plays on Spotify platform. Ian has  recently released his third studio album, ‘Meu Único Medo É Primavera’. With a production focused on mixing the contemporary jazz genre with MPB, the album shows that the artist reinvented himself during the 2-year hiatus without releases. Ian listen to a lot of contemporary jazz, in addition to our renowned masters of Brazilian music from MPB, mainly from the “tropicalista” sector. Artists such as Caetano, Gilberto Gil, João Donato, Moacir Santos and Toninho Horta, who were a great blender in the global aesthetic fusion, either from the world of their time, or from other cultures, but at the same time preserving a Brazilian and modern identity”, points out the musician, who also mentions his grandfather, who is immortalized in the audio of the track ‘Vinheta’, and his father as great inspirations: "both cross the tradition of Brazilian song, my grandfather with a pre-bossa and samba song repertoire and my father was already post-tropicalist, more modern and already embracing other languages such as pop, rock and reggae. New album spring 2024. 

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