| Maga Bo | |
| Birth Name: | Bo Anderson[1] |
| Birth Place: | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Genre: | World Music, MPB, Hip hop, Funk carioca |
| Occupation: | Disc jockey, music producer, remixer, percussionist |
| Years Active: | 1999 - present |
| Label: | Post World Industries, Tru Thoughts, Soot Records |
| Associated Acts: | BNegão, Filastine |
Maga Bo (born Bo Anderson in Seattle, Washington) is an American Brazilian DJ, producer, sound engineer and ethnomusicologist.[1] Though he currently resides in Rio de Janeiro,[2] he is constantly traveling around the World to research local rhythms. He's been to over 40 countries with this purpose.[2] His music is a fusion of many styles such as hip-hop, ragga, grime, bhangra, raï, batucada,[1] coco, samba, dubstep,[3] maculelê, jongo, capoeira, dub and kuduro.[4]
Maga Bo moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1999.[2] [4] His first contact with Brazilian music was back in his hometown Seattle, through Brazilian musician and professor Jovino Santos Neto and Jeff Busch, who invited him for a batucada.[5] At that time, Bo had no knowledge on Brazilian music, but Neto taught him a couple of things, starting his relationship with the genres from that country.[6] He then started to make musical trips around the World - one of them saw him going from Cairo to Cape Town in a 20-country tour, hence the strong African influences in his works.[6] The first movement which caught his attention was the Senegalese hip hop. Such trips to Africa resulted in his first full-length solo album, Archipelagoes, recorded entirely in that content[7] and released in 2008.[6]
His earliest releases were collaborative albums with Filastine: the first came in 2001 and consisted of Indian, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan music works recorded between 1997 and 1999.[1] In 2005 came Lost & Stolen Goods (2005), a live mix by the same duo, but then known as Sonar Calibrado.[1]
His first solo work was the EP Tudo Bem, released in 2003 via Tru Thoughts. In 2007, he released another EP and a mix album, both called Confusion of Tongues, via his current Soot Records.[1] In 2012, he released his second full-length album, Quilombo do Futuro, featuring many guest performances.[3]
In 2014, his song "No Balanço da Canoa" was featured at the soundtrack of the next-generation version of Grand Theft Auto V, more precisely at radio WorldWide FM.[8]