Music that breathes both universality and Portugueseness, an invitation to dive into ourselves to be more attentive to others and what surrounds us.
The project started as a challenge. Official entities in India launched an invitation to 124 countries for each of them to choose a musician who would recreate Vaishnav Jan to Tene Kahiye, the theme that Gandhi listened to the most and that has become a kind of unofficial anthem of the Indian nation.
“It was then that the Indian embassy contacted me to design a version of this theme, based on the fact that I studied there and that my music has Indian influences”, says Rão Kyao. Rão Kyao’s interpretation of this theme had a surprising impact and Indian PM Narendra Modi referenced it and published it on all his social networks.
From then on, until Rão Kyao delved even deeper into the actuality of Gandhi’s thinking, to conceive an entire album, it was an instant.
Spirituality, interculturality, ecological sense and his meditative music make him, so many years later, a deeply contemporary figure. Exactly like Gandhi who now honors.
