33rd Brazilian Music Award wins Djavan, Gaby Amarantos, João Gomes, Luedji Luna and Daniela Mercury

Djavan and Gaby Amarantos pose with their respective trophies won at the 33rd Brazilian Music Awards
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♫ ANALYSIS
♬ The task of choosing the best phonographic releases and artists in an increasingly volatile music market that every week dumps thousands of albums, EPs and singles onto digital players is increasingly inglorious.
Faced with this discouraging situation due to the impossibility of listening and evaluating everything and everyone, the jury of the 33rd edition of the BTG Pactual Brazilian Music Award - a heterogeneous group of journalists, artists and professionals working in the music industry of which the g1 columnist and music critic has been part for a few years - reached a satisfactory result.
In general, the artists awarded at the ceremony held at the Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro last night, June 10th, really stood out in the respective categories for which they competed.
Who can deny that, in the axé music segment, Daniela Mercury deserved the trophy for Best Release for "Cirandaia" (2025), an album that reiterated the Bahian artist's relevance in the universe of Afro-Brazilian music? Still in the segment, awarding Olodum as Best Artist was like attesting to the fundamental and perennial importance of this Afro group in the cultural universe of Salvador (BA).
In the same way, the jury only did justice by appointing Gaby Amarantos as the winner in the Audiovisual Project category for "Rock doido", an anthological album-film that raised the status of the artist from Pará in the pop universe by capturing the festive energy of the sound systems held in Belém (PA).
In the MPB category, Djavan was a double winner as Best Artist and Best Release for the album "Improviso", released in November. If the album does not stand out among the most cohesive in the singer's discography, the trophy for Best MPB Artist is in line with the moment in which Djavan draws crowds to arenas and stadiums with the show on the tour in which he celebrates 50 years of success with such a sophisticated and at the same time popular work.
What was already happening with Alcione, celebrated in recent years as a samba entity, happened with Djavan. Hence the Best Artist trophy for Marrom in the category, even though the singer's latest album, "Alcione" (2025), is one of the least relevant in the Maranhão native's work. But it is worth highlighting that, in the area of samba, the jury was quite unfair in not even nominating Mosquito (for the album "Quinhão") and the duo Alfredo Del-Penho and Pedro Paulo Malta (for the album "Bicudos Dois"). Both released excellent albums.
In the Rock category, the Minas Gerais group Black Pantera deserved the award for Best Artist for their entire activist work that has been breaking bubbles in the world of music.
In the country segment, the jury was conservative in awarding the duo Chitãozinho & Xororó with two awards, Artist and Release. It is true that the brothers are having a good time and deserve to be praised for the longevity and coherence observed in their 56-year career, but Ana Castela is the name that actually moves the most in agropop. He deserved to have at least one award.
In the same way, Lenin was wronged. He competed for three trophies with the album and film "Eita" (2025), but left empty-handed. In this case, the error may have been to classify "Eita" in the generic Pop category - a segment in which singer-songwriter Luedji Luna's double victory was legitimate and deserved - and not in the MPB segment, more suitable for Lenine's album and film. If that had been the case, "Eita" could have been awarded the best MPB album.
In the Instrumental category, there was double justice. Even though he is a recurring winner in the category, Hamilton de Holanda is experiencing a shining moment as an instrumentalist and deserved the trophy for Best Artist. Likewise, guitarist João Camarero shined with the EP in which he revisits the repertoire of his predecessor Baden Powell (1937 - 2000).
If the singer Fitti was indeed a Revelation of Brazilian music, for the performative show in which he interprets the repertoire of Ney Matogrosso, the trio João Gomes, Jota.Pê and Mestrinho was really the architect of the most special project of 2025 with the album and tour "Sunday". And here it is worth mentioning that forrozeiro João Gomes was the double winner of the always undefined Popular Song category. The guitarist Gabriele Leite was a clear name in the Erudite category due to the exponential virtuosity observed in the instrumentalist's second album, "Gununcho".
And justice was also done in the Rap category with BK taking the award for Best Artist and Don L being awarded the trophy for Best Release for the acclaimed album "Caro vapor II - Qual a forma de pago?".
Anyway, were there absences? Of course yes, and they are inevitable given the intense volume of launches. Were there injustices when rewarding the nominees? Uma ou outra. However, it's fair, it's very fair, it's very fair to point out the high rate of success in the distribution of trophies for the 33rd edition of the BTG Pactual Brazilian Music Awards. show in honor of Cazuza (1958 - 1990) with a cast that included Chico Chico, Ludmilla, Luedji Luna, Marina Sena, Ney Matogrosso, Seu Jorge, Simone and Zizi Possi, among other names:
♪ AXÉ
BEST ARTIST - Olodum
BEST RELEASE - Daniela Mercury - Cirandaia (Produced by: Daniela Mercury, Juliano Valle, Gabriel Mercury)
♪ POPULAR SONG
BEST ARTIST - João Gomes
BEST RELEASE - João Gomes - Pé de Serrita (Produced by: João Gomes, Daniel Mendes, Mestrinho)
♪ ELECTRONIC
BEST RELEASE - Africanoise - Cabaça (Produced by: Africanoise)
♪ FOREIGN LANGUAGE
BEST RELEASE - Silvia Machete - Rhonda's Boots & Legs (Live) (Produced by: Lalo Brusco)
♪ ERUDITO
BEST RELEASE - Gabriele Leite - Gunûncho (Produced by: Erika Ribeiro)
♪ SPECIAL PROJECT
BEST RELEASE - João Gomes, Jota.Pê e Mestrinho - Dominguinho (Produced by: Daniel Mendes, João Gomes, Jota.Pê, Mestrinho)
♪ FUNK
BEST ARTIST - Deize Tigrona
BEST RELEASE - Totonho e os Cabra - Aí Dentu: Funk de Embolada e Hip Hop do Mato (Produced by: André Abujamra, Renato Oliveira, Marcelo Macedo, Furmiga Dub, Rica Amabis)
♪ INSTRUMENTAL
BEST ARTIST - Hamilton de Holanda
BEST RELEASE - João Camarero - Baden (Produced by: Alexandre Fontanetti)
♪ MPB
BEST ARTIST - Djavan
BEST RELEASE - Djavan - Improvisation (Produced by: Djavan)
♪ POP
BEST ARTIST - Luedji Luna
BEST RELEASE - Luedji Luna - Before the earth ends (Produced by: Fejuca, Kato Change, Zudizilla, Lucas Cirillo, Duda Raup, Iuri Rio Branco, Toty S'amed, Luedji Luna)
♪ ROOTS
BEST ARTIST - Mestrinho
BEST RELEASE - Orchestra Malassombro - Recife, Beginning, Middle and End (Produced by: Rafael Marques)
♪ RAP / TRAP
BEST ARTIST - BK
BEST RELEASE - Don L - CARO Vapor II - what is the payment method? (Produced by: Don L, Iuri Rio Branco, Nave)
♪ REGGAE
BEST ARTIST - Maneva
BEST RELEASE - Bia Ferreira, Little Lion Sound - Your silence (Produced by: Little Lion Sound, Irie Yute)
♪ REVELATION
Fitti
♪ AUDIOVISUAL PROJECT
Gaby Amarantos - Rock crazy (Directed by: Guilherme Takshy, Naré, Gaby Amarantos)
♪ ROCK
BEST ARTIST - Black Pantera
BEST RELEASE - Terno Rei - None eEstrela (Produced by: Gustavo Schirmer)
♪ SAMBA
BEST ARTIST - Alcione
BEST RELEASE - Péricles - Pagode do Pericão (Live in São Paulo) (Produced by: Izaías Marcelo)
♪ SERTANEJO
BEST ARTIST - Chitãozinho & Xororó
BEST RELEASE - Chitãozinho & Xororó - Meninos de roça (Produced by: Cláudio Paladini)

Source: G1