New Music From Rodrigo Amarante – “Tuyo” From Netflix’s Narcos – Digital Servicing Only

Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and singer Rodrigo Amarante recently earned an Emmy nomination, in the Outstanding Original Title Theme category, for the theme he composed for Netflix‘s critically-acclaimed drama Narcos. Amarante, a rock musician who co-founded the popular Brazilian band Los Hermanos as well as Little Joy (with the Strokes’ Fabrizio Moretti), has continued on “Tuyo” to explore the more dulcet tones heard on his 2014 solo debut, Cavalo.

But while the music of “Tuyo” is gentle and bright, it accompanies lyrics that have a slightly more sinister tone – which is appropriate for the title of a show about Pablo Escobar, the billionaire drug distributor who cultivated a Robin Hood-esque image in Colombia while driving the nation’s skyrocketing murder rate in the 1980s. In addition to being a critical favorite, the song has had a huge viral reception: it has been Shazamed more than 700,000 times and has charted several times on Spotify‘s viral charts.

“The result is short, beautiful, and deceptive — listen closely to those lyrics. That’s not romance you’re hearing, it’s domination.” –NPR

“The sort of sultry, insinuating, dark-casual tone could not be better suited to [actor] Wagner Moura’s tour-de-force as Pablo Escobar” – Paste Magazine

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