Kadu Mota was born in Rio de Janeiro, where, at the age of nine, learned to play guitar self-taught. Impressing everyone with his musicianship, at twelve he won his first electric guitar. Even at this early age, he was already listening from Muddy Waters to Jimi Hendrix, from psychedelic brazilian rock band Mutantes to the Tropicalia and Samba exponents. And among the cream of Brazilian music and his passion for rock and the blues, his first compositions were born.
In the late '90s, when the "Mangue Beat" moviment was taking place, Kadu left Rio to city of Recife, to experience what was the last significant movement of expression and innovation in Brazilian music. He dove deeply into the heart of Brazilian culture and into the Mangue Beat unique proposal - recover Brazil's folklore and national traditions through a modern reading. That single experience left a significant mark in his career, which can be seen and, of course, listened today in his gigs where he fuses so uniquely the heaviness and rebellion of rock music with the sensibility and delicacy of Brazil's traditional northeastern themes.
Back in Rio, he hosted a radio show that promoted independent artists, in a small radio. In his most important interview, he got to play live with the legendary singer Cassia Eller, the song "Yer Blues" by The Beatles. The following year, he recorded his first album, "Eletrorfeu" - his band's name at the time - and hit the road, as the guitar player and producer of many artists.
In the early 2000s Kadu joined other musicians and started playing for free in the streets of Lapa - the historic bohemian area of downtown Rio. That area, which had been so depreciated for the last years gained an injection of pure energy from Thursdays to Saturdays, when they would perform and attract more and more audience. For the record, the places they were rocking every week used to be the same spot where, decades earlier, Jacob do Bandolim ( legendary brazilian musician and songwriter) used to live and perform his exquisite "choro" compositions.
Thus, gradually, Kadu Mota and his partners were gaining audience, being directly responsible for the rescue of one of strongest cultural traits of carioca people (natives of Rio): the endless Lapa nights of fun. His gigs in Lapa ended up being the highlight at a guide in O Globo - brazilian newspaper of big circulation.
In 2007, the musician formed the band "Creme Crackers" with fellow singer-songwriter Sid Mazzei - and released their first album, which gathers some of his best songs as a singer and guitarist. You can hear the influences of soul, funk and blues in an interesting "marriage" with rock n' roll. The band is now working on their second album.
The following year, he produced in his own apartment an unexpected album called "Dub Wise Town", with producer and beatmaker Fernando D and DJ Livio Maddalena. This is an album built on the interaction between electronic and organic, a fusion of beats, guitars, basses, pianos and synthesizers.
In the summer of 2011, Kadu Mota took off to Europe, going through Germany, Holland, and England, with highlights including two memorable performances in the cities of Groningen and Leeuwarden, in addition to a live interview in London, at the "NTS Radio" , in which he performed and answered numerous questions submitted by listeners via twitter.
Pretty soon, the musician will be releasing his first solo album, that will count, among his own songs, with a version of "How do you sleep?" (John Lennon), track released in April 2009, in the CD "Letra & Música - John Lennon," produced by musical researcher Marcelo Froes and released on his label, "Discobertas."
