Next month, a huge music festival is coming to São Paulo… on a gigantic farm in the small city of Itú. It’s called the “Starts With You” festival and here in SP City, it’s all anyone has been talking about (and of course that means I have to go). The festival is bringing in big international names like, Rage Against the Machine, Dave Matthew’s Band, Kings of Leon, DJ Tiesto, and Linkin Park, amongst others… but what I really love about a lot of these festivals is checking out the up and coming artists who they invite. And one of these artists, a friend of mine had told me about but I hadn’t gotten a good listen to her work yet, and in looking up her blog, I saw she was invited to tons of festivals coming up. Her name is Tulipa Ruiz, she’s one of the newest names in MPB, and I’m officially in love with her work. Check out her blurb from the SWU website and below a video with gorgeous lyrics!
Tulipa é a cantora e compositora da banda formada pela família – o pai Luiz Chagas, guitarrista que tem no currículo a Banda Isca de Policia, de Itamar Assumpção, e o irmão, Gustavo Ruiz, craque no violão. As letras são delicadas como a voz de Tulipa. Suas influências vão do poeta Manoel de Barros a Joni Mitchel e Yoko Ono.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCz3Qrl2n8g
Do Amor
O meu amor sai de trem por aí
e vai vagando degavar para ver quem chegou
O meu amor corre devagar, anda no seu tempo
que passa de vez em vento
Como uma história que inventa o seu fim
quero inventar um você para mim
Vai ser melhor quando te conhecer
Olho no olho
e flor no jardim
Flor, amor
Vento devagar
vem, vai, vem mais