Tagged: Orquestra Batukadeiras

Like a family

Billboard.com discusses with Madonna how she got to know the Batukadeiras Orquestra in Lisbon, why she invited several members of the collective to perform on her Madame X album and how she ended bringing some of them on the road with the Madame X Tour: “I thought about Guy Oseary’s response to the cost of taking 22 women on the road with us,” she explains. But her goal was set: “I wanted the audience to get a glimpse of history,” and 14 batukadeiras became part of the Madame X Tour band. Read More

Meeting the Prime Minister of Cabo Verde

Madonna met Ulisses Correia e Silva, the Prime Minister of Cabo Verde – a country that had a major influence in the Madame X album where many of the talented musicians in the show – including the Orquestra Batukadeiras – come from. Read More

Your love has given me hope

If you thought Madonna would have left you some time to breath and to prepare for the Batuka video dropping today, you’d understimated her. Madame X released another clip from the tour rehearsals where you see – and listen, of course – the Orquestra Batukadeiras joining her on Rescue MeRead More

Madame X is in the Hole

In Madonna’s most recent video we have a glimpse of the God Control rehearsals with the Orquestra Batukadeiras while another clip shows Madonna in a circular-shaped scene prop apparently called “the Hole.” Read More