How far do Fred's arms reach? Drummer with Orelha Negra, Banda do Mar and Sam The Kid, he's travelled continents with Buraka Som Sistema but never forgot that it all started with the disobedient rock of Yellow W Van. Alongside the skins and woods came production. He was the instrumental brain behind the collective 5-30, with Regula and Carlão, and produced Slow J, A Garota Não, Diogo Piçarra, Raquel Tavares and Frankie Chavez, among others.

As love is always at the end of the story, and mediating it is the freedom to move between genres, stimuli and people, the busy schedule hasn't stopped him from taking on a name for himself. First with "O Amor Encontra-te No Fim" (2019) and then giving himself body and soul to jazz in "Series Vol. 1 - Madlib", a tribute to the romance between jazz and hip-hop, founded on the cutting, collage and overlapping exercises of Otis Jackson Jr, in other words Madlib. Still and always the passion, in this case for the poetry of Regina Guimarães, incited him to build the environments for the recited word in "Mãos no Fogo".