O CAMÕES PRETO

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Ja Yl’ Son (of Lights) aka “O Camoes Preto” is a santomense-portuguese writer and singer. Raised within the mixed suburban zones from Portugal, since very young he gained the taste for Reggae, Hip Hop, Jazz, and other styles of music. He started singing and rapping with 10, but only within his first Selectas nights in Lisbon when he was a teen, that he found the love for freestyle and toasting. So, his journey started by singing in different Jam’s sessions around Lisbon, Almada, Seixal, Amadora and others spots, until be invited to join “Nomad Embassy Soundsystem”, a collective with “craft system inspired by the Jamaican culture of the fifties, through Roots, Steppa and Dub” being first toaster from the group. Ja Yl’ Son never lost his desire to Jam and kept doing it all around the town, in places such as Arroz Estudios, Anjos70, Titanic, etc on the recent years. In 2020, longside “In-Finita” he published his first poetry book, “Rasgos”. With different flows, rhymes, metrics and “Slanga” this energetic soul is really someone we should listen and pay attention!