Niteroy is the project of Rennes musician Tiago Ribeiro, named after Niterói, the city across the bay from Rio de Janeiro. He puts the groove of old sambas and Brazilian saudade into well-crafted pop songs, with batucada, synths and cavaquinho, on the Yotanka label.
The son of a Portuguese father and a Brazilian mother, formerly of the band Born Idiot, he recorded his first EP, Dia de chuva, during the 2020 lockdown. The Trans Musicales, the Inouïs du Printemps de Bourges and a second EP, Cachoeira, followed in 2022.
He played Les Mouillotins in 2021, at the 19th edition.
