João Gomes exposes episode of prejudice due to being from the Northeast: “It was always difficult”

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The singer opened up about the prejudice he has faced throughout his career. In an interview with GQ directly from Las Vegas, in the USA, where he received the award for the “Dominguinho” project, the native of Pernambuco highlighted that he learned to deal with success, including prejudiced episodes due to his northeastern origin.

When recalling the launch of the project that led him to victory in the “Best Roots Music Album in the Portuguese Language” category, the 23-year-old artist stated that he already imagined the positive repercussion among the public: “Not everyone will listen, but whoever listens will like it… But there are those who don’t, you know?”, he reflected, before getting to the main theme.

This is because, despite their success, he recognizes that piseiro and forró are still recurring targets of attacks: “Two rhythms that to this day suffer a lot of prejudice.” He then recalled that, in a rehearsal during a hot day, he was taken by surprise with a “joke” that was, to say the least, inappropriate: the person asked him if the team was not used to being hot and thirsty because they were from the Northeast.

“I thought: ‘Wow, old man, was that really it?’. We need to do our part through music and earn our space, just like Gonzagão did. But it’s always been difficult. They’ll always look down on us because of ignorance. People think that where we come from is just grass. So, we should keep talking about positive things.”

According to him, the maturity to deal with setbacks in the artistic universe came thanks to the process of: “I’m in a very positive vibe about my future. I feel like there’s a bit of a heart connected to mine”, added João.