10/02/2025
Vavá United School of Samba October 🎃 Bossa show✨️ this Sunday, October 5th, starting at 8pm with special guest Risadinha (São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷) joining Heitor Presser and Vavá Samba Vavá United School of Samba, Washington DC 💃🏽🕺🏻🎤🎵🥁🎉
✨️ Risadinha is one of the founders of Exaltasamba - a Brazilian pagode music group, formed in 1982 in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. Risadinha was a percussionist 🥁 & vocalist 🎤 in Exaltasamba’s early days. 🎶 Risadinha joined in 1987, shaping the group’s roots alongside Clovis & Claudinei — before legends like Péricles & Pinha arrived!
✨️ Heitor Presser is the son of Exaltasamba’s Risadinha. Heitor grew up immersed in samba and pagode, surrounded by legends like his father, Péricles and Pinha. Mixing Brazilian roots with jazz, bossa, and MPB, Heitor is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who now performs in Washington, DC, New York, and beyond — spreading joy through music that’s both traditional and uniquely his.
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