Born in Minas Gerais/Brazil, Rossano has been working professionally as a musician since 1991, engaged in education, research, performing and musical creation.

In 1995 with friends in his hometown, Belo Horizonte, started a project named Disfunção (Dysfunction), which gave birth to his group called pexbaA (late 90’s/2010), whose proposal consisted in interacting many languages and musical forms in randomically ways, approaching to Dadaism due to the regular use of onomatopoeia on “lyrics” and improvisational vocal lines, as well as intersectional and free moving sounds.

Rossano has been connected with Afro-Brazilian rhythms since he was one month old, since his grandfather promoted an annual Afro-Brazilian Celebration called Congado in “Quilombo of Sapé” (a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by freed slaves, one of the four officially recognized settlements in Brumadinho city/MG by the Palmares Foundation Federal Department). His interaction happened for three months a year along twelve years.

Rossano has never stopped attending to Afro-Brazilian temples and celebrations and later he was invited to play atabaque (African percussion instrument) on a Candomblé (cult of the African Orishas) temple, playing this role for more than two years, until the priest of the temple passed away.

From the early Afro-Brazilian beats till Rossano’s musical experiments in the 90’s, the Afro-Brazilian rhythms have always been present in his musical projects, and now, through the Mitoses, these researches come forward in a deeper aspect.

Rossano – voice, atabaque, agogô, surdo