Zé Luis Nascimento

Virtuoso percussionist Zé Luis Nascimento was born in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. His career on the world stage comprises solo performances, and participation in musical directing with the Bahian Folk Ballet, where he was trained first as a dancer, and rapidly, given his talent and inclination, trained and recruited as a musician. On arriving in France in 1996, Ze Luis discovered new types of oriental and occidental percussions. It was then that he offered the world a different, very personal, voice, developing a profoundly original rhythmic vocabulary of his own. Nasicmento creates stunning coherence resorting to a wealth of instruments. Both on stage and in recordings, Nascimento has and continues to collaborate with ‘the great’, including Michel Legrand, Césaria Evora, Georges Moustaki, Jean-Luc Ponty, Al Di Meola, Ayo, Tania Maria, Vladimir Cosma, Lokua Kanza, Souad Massi, Grace, Titi Robin, Gulabi Sapera, Faiz Ali Faiz, Mayra Andrade, Sixun, Paco Sery, Marcio Faraco, Oumou Sangare, Jun Miyaké, Jaques Morelenbaum, Tété, and many more. He has thus participated and can be heard in the recordings of over a hundred international albums. Ze Luis Nascimento’ musical universe is infused with power, inspiration, and elegance. His credo is “to serve the music”.