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BRASILIA, Aug 13 (Reuters) – As presidential campaigns ramp up in Brazil, the frontrunners are making their pitches to voters in a medium the nation is famous for: irresistible grooves.<\/p>\n

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A nostalgic riff on a funk carioca classic celebrates the working-class roots of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. His leading challenger, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, has a foot-stomping country anthem steeped in faith and rural culture.<\/p>\n

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Both draw on a rich tradition of campaign jingles in a country where street vendors and sound trucks have long gotten feet moving with catchy tunes. <\/p>\n

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But the contrasts in their choice of genres, lyrics and images in accompanying music videos speak volumes about how the race is shaping up.<\/p>\n

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FAVELA FUNK<\/p>\n

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“Silva’s Rap” borrows from a 1995 hit in the baile funk scene that sprang from the slums of Rio de Janeiro to tell the story of Lula’s rise from humble origins to become a union leader, president and now an icon of the global left. <\/p>\n

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“He was just another Silva,” goes the refrain borrowed from the original, using Brazil’s most common surname to connect the three-term president with the common man.<\/p>\n

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“He has the soul of the people and looks like one of us,” the song continues over a montage of highlights from the 80-year-old president’s public life.<\/p>\n

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For MC Bob Rum, who wrote the original 1995 track, its role in a presidential campaign marks a coming of age for a genre long stigmatized for its humble origins and provocative lyrics.<\/p>\n

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“This could not have happened even 10 years ago. Our generation suffered a lot of persecution,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Marcelo Vitorino, an electoral marketing consultant and professor, said Lula’s use of rap and funk was aimed less at persuading new voters than at energizing his progressive base.<\/p>\n

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“It’s the space of the marginalized – the outskirts, funk, and rap. That’s already Lula’s territory. So maybe he’s trying to rally a dedicated following for a battle,” Vitorino said.<\/p>\n

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HEARTLAND ANTHEM<\/p>\n

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By contrast, the conservative 45-year-old Senator Bolsonaro, only slightly trailing in the polls, has released “Come With Faith,” an AI-generated song which eschews the candidate’s biography to focus on the promise of a brighter tomorrow. <\/p>\n

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With a chest-beating anthem steeped in the sertanejo country music associated with Brazil’s rural interior, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro offers himself as a champion of the heartland’s conservative values.<\/p>\n

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The lyrics make seven mentions of “faith” and repeated calls to “hope” and “believe,” appealing to a growing evangelical Christian electorate that voted heavily for Bolsonaro’s father.<\/p>\n

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“These words captivate people,” said Gilberto Musto, a campaign marketing consultant and author on electoral communications.<\/p>\n

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In the song’s video, clips of the candidate wearing a cowboy hat and blowing a traditional horn used by cattle drivers help to play up the Rio lawyer’s affinity with a booming farm country where agribusiness leaders show deep resistance to the current government.<\/p>\n

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Both sides are expected to release new jingles and videos as the campaigns progress.<\/p>\n

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MUSIC’S ENDURING ROLE <\/p>\n

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Musto said Lula’s and Bolsonaro’s songs are “the right choices for the moment,” updating a storied tradition of Brazilian campaign jingles.<\/p>\n

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Campaign songs draw on a tradition of street vendors using music to attract customers and help reach voters in a country with low literacy rates historically, said Dr. Kjetil Klette Bohler, who studies the role of music in Brazilian politics at the University of South-Eastern Norway and is writing a book on the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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Lula’s first presidential run in 1989 featured a now classic jingle with the chorus of “Lula l\u00e1” that has made a reprise in each of the six presidential campaigns that would follow. <\/p>\n

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Bohler said Brazilian campaigns are also choosing musical genres increasingly as political signals, with sertanejo more closely associated with Bolsonaro’s conservative movement while samba, funk and other Afro-Brazilian traditions are often embraced by the left.<\/p>\n

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Lula “could have chosen a Mozart opera,” MC Bob Rum said. “Instead, he chose a funk track that demonstrates his closeness to the everyday – to the ordinary citizen from humble, marginal communities.” <\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Brendan O’Boyle and Luciana MagalhaesEditing by Brad Haynes and Alistair Bell)<\/p>\n

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Copyright Reuters or USA Today Network via Reuters Connect.<\/i><\/p>\n

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