Maga Bo () (born Bo Anderson in

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) is an American Brazilian DJ, producer,

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and

ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dim ...

. Though he currently resides in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

, he is constantly traveling around the World to research local rhythms. He's been to over 40 countries with this purpose. His music is a fusion of many styles such as hip-hop,

ragga Raggamuffin music, usually abbreviated as ragga, is a subgenre of dancehall and reggae music. The instrumentals primarily consist of electronic music. Similar to hip hop, sampling often serves a prominent role in raggamuffin music. Wayne Sm ...

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, bhangra,

raï Raï (, ; ar, راي, Latn, ar, rāʾy, ), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian traditional music, folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Singers of Raï are called ''cheb'' (Arabic: شاب) (or ''shabab,'' i.e. young) as opposed ...

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, coco,

samba Samba (), also known as samba urbano carioca (''urban Carioca samba'') or simply samba carioca (''Carioca samba''), is a Brazilian music genre that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century. Havin ...

dubstep Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken be ...

, maculelê,

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, dub and

kuduro Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance from Angola. It is characterized as uptempo, energetic, and danceable. Kuduro was developed in Luanda, Angola in the late 1980s. Producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk bé ...

Career

Maga Bo moved to

in 1999. His first contact with Brazilian music was back in his hometown Seattle, through Brazilian musician and professor

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and Jeff Busch, who invited him for a

. At that time, Bo had no knowledge on Brazilian music, but Neto taught him a couple of things, starting his relationship with the genres from that country. He then started to make musical trips around the World - one of them saw him going from

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in a 20-country tour, hence the strong African influences in his works. The first movement which caught his attention was the

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. Such trips to Africa resulted in his first full-length solo album, ''Archipelagoes'', recorded entirely in that content and released in 2008. His earliest releases were collaborative albums with Filastine: the first came in 2001 and consisted of

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and

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works recorded between 1997-1999. In 2005 came ''Lost & Stolen Goods'' (2005), a live mix by the same duo, but then known as Sonar Calibrado. His first solo work was the EP ''Tudo Bem'', released in 2003 via

Tru Thoughts Tru Thoughts is a British independent record label founded in Brighton in 1999 by Robert Luis and Paul Jonas. Since the acclaimed first album release of Bonobo's debut ''Animal Magic'', the label has put out over 200 LPs, across genres from e ...

. In 2007, he released another EP and a mix album, both called ''Confusion of Tongues'', via his current Soot Records. In 2012, he released his second full-length album, ''Quilombo do Futuro'', featuring many guest performances. In 2014, his song "No Balanço da Canoa" was featured at the soundtrack of the next-generation version of ''

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'', more precisely at radio

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Discography

Solo

EPs and mix albums

* ''Tudo Bem'' (EP, 2003) * ''Confusion of Tonges'' (EP, 2007) * ''Confusion of Tonges'' (mix album, 2007)

Studio albums

* ''Archipelagoes'' (2008) * ''Quilombo do Futuro'' (2012)

Collaborations

;with AudioFile Collective * ''Do Not Spit Here or There: A Noise Primer on the Indian Subcontinent'' (2001) ;with Sonar Calibrado * ''Lost & Stolen Goods'' (2005)

References

External links

*
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at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bo, Maga Living people Musicians from Seattle American expatriates in Brazil American DJs American hip hop record producers Música Popular Brasileira musicians Year of birth missing (living people)