Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra is a band from Rio de Janeiro.
“Maluguinho” is a religious candomblĂ© chant from Recife that Abayomy transformed into an Afrobeat track.
âAbayomy was not a band of musicians who got together to study Fela or music. It was a band born in an atmosphere of celebrationâhence the name Abayomy, âbeing happy togetherâ in Yoruba. It was the first band to explicitly carry Afrobeat in their name, and the first Afrobeat band in Brazil.â
Read: Afrobeat futures on Africa is a Country
See also: Bixiga 70 (more Afrobeat from Brazil)