Portuguese rapper and producer Sam The Kid will present the album live for the first time in its entirety Beats Vol.1: Lovein October 2025 at the Belém Cultural Center, in Lisbon, it was announced this Thursday.
The instrumental album, released in 2002 and inspired by the love story of Sam The Kid’s parents, will be presented in its entirety on October 31, 2025, in a show that will feature an orchestra and the Orelha Negra collective, as reported by the agency of the ‘rapper’ and producer, in a statement released this Thursday.
The album, composed of 17 songs, was conceived as the “soundtrack of Sam TheKid’s parents’ relationship: from the embryonic phase of surprise and curiosity, through breakup and regret to the love that lives forever”.
“A work that, from titles and interludes, offers tracks that unfold the sound narrative composed of samples of jazz, soul, MPB, funk or Portuguese music that Sam combines with his vast archive of conversations and moments of his friends, family and strangers – like seductive conversations and your own heartbeat – or even excerpts from TV shows that you have saved over the years without a purpose in mind,” says agency and production company Faded.
Samuel Mira, known as Sam The Kid, a proud son of the Chelas neighborhood in Lisbon, He has a career of 25 yearswhich begin to be counted in 1999, the year in which he published However)the debut album.
they followed Above all), Beats Vol.1 – Love (instrumental), in 2002, and Practically)in 2006.
Since the release of “Sobre(tudo), the rapper and producer has worked with Orelha Negra, Mundo Segundo dos Dealemareleased the projects Classe Crua (with Beware Jack) and Vludo (with Blasph) and participated in songs by, among others, Bispo, Regula, Mind Da Gap and Bob Da Rage Sense.
Always “very alone” in the creative part, he told Lusa in 2019 that he ended up discovering in the association “what makes sense, in terms of collaboration and each person doing what they do best.”
At one point he created the TV Chelas platform, which includes podcasts. three strikesand Like this or Roast interviews, videos and a store, which he manages himself, and where he sells the albums he releases and merchandising.
Source: Observadora
