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Oddly enough, if you ask around New York's expat Brazilian community, very few have heard of actor/musi- cian Seu lorge. Tr's not until you remind them of his role as good-guy-gone-bad Mane Galinha in City of God (which coincidentally screens on April 30th as part of the PEN World Festival) that their eyes light up.
More surprising than the lack of recognition by his own compatriots is his growing appeal among foreign audiences. This is an artist who does not sing in English (except maybe for his cover of Leiber/Stoiler's "Don't"), and whose music is deeply ingrained in his roots: A for mer homeless man and resident of Brazil's squatter cities, he sings of the everyday issues that surround him. In "Mania de Peitao" (Large Boobs Mania), he takes humorous look at the recent infatuation with breast enhancement surgery that has taken hold in his native land, while in "Sou Favela" (I Am The Slums)," he takes a critical view of the erroneous assumption that the peo ple who populate the favelas of Rio and Sao Paulo are mostly criminals.
On stage, he is accompanied only by his own guitar, plus percussion and cavaquinho (a four-stringed instru ment that descends from the mandolin).
April 27. Irving Plata, 17 Irving Place (at 15tl> St,), 212-777-6800; 9; $ 25. April 30. Cay of (PEN World Festival), Two Boob Pioneer Theater, ISS 3rd St., 212-S91-0434; 3, $9. 04/25/06
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