Dudu Tucci was born in 1955 in Sao Paulo. He comes from a family of musicians and as a young boy was already drumming at Umbanda ceremonies.

After going to school he studied classical percussion, flute and musicology before traveling to various Latin-American countries from 1976 and discovering
their diverse ethnical music traditions, whose deep spirituality has accompanied him since then.

Celebrated as an extraordinary percussionist, he has toured to various international festivals, among others, 1993 in Korea and at the Expo in Taejon with Korean percussion group Samul Nori, 1993 in Salvador de Bahia at the percussion festival "Perc Pan", where he performed with musicians such as Naná Vasconcelos, Terry Bozio, Glen Velez and Los Papines, 1994 in Taiwan, as well as in 2000 at the EXPO in Hannover.
He is very much in demand as a teacher, and has been inspiring and enthusing several thousand students in his courses like Conga Total, Samba Fever, or his advanced project "Raizes do Brasil", for many years now.

In Germany alone there are already more than 130 Samba groups whose repertoire has been significantly influenced by Dudu Tucci´s Samba workshops.
His successful teaching and intensive work methods have won Dudu Tucci invitations to international workshops like the Symposium in "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, the Orff-Institut in Taiwan, the "University of Memphis", USA and to the Saint Patrick`s Day in Ireland.

Since 1996 Dudu has worked for "one voice music" in Great Britain and Ireland with his percussion project "Raizes do Brazil". With Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Dudu Tucci published the book "Samba and Sambistas in Brazil", which deals with the theoretical side of Samba.

Besides collaborating on various record projects, like Reinhard Flatischler´s Megadrums, among others, he has released eight CD´s - Oduduá, Obatimalé, Orixás, Native Dreamer, Tribal World, Inaê, Afoxé´Loni und Amacy.

Murah Soares is considered to be one of the greatest talents of Afro-Brazilian dance in Germany. He was born in São Paulo/ Brazil where he was taught classical ballet and modern dance. His relation to the "Candomble" religion, in which dancing represents an important element of the ritual, has always been in the foreground of his own artistic work.

He achieved quite a reputation as a teacher for "Brazilian-Afro-Dance" in various academies of São Paulo. Now living for more than ten years in Germany and Denmark, he has worked in diverse projects with Dudu Tucci since 1991. With their two productions "Obaluàiye" in 1993 and "Dance of the Elements" in 1997, which both had their world première in the "House of the Cultures of the World" , they were enthusiastically celebrated by the audience. Murah Soares has also established himself as a brilliant teacher and choreographer.

His project "Afoxé Loni" with about eighty dancers and eighty drummers was presented for the first time in 1996 at the "Carnival of Cultures" in Berlin and in the meantime has grown to include affiliated projects in Manchester and Dublin. In the summer of 2001, a third will follow in Milan.

In the year 2000 - under the direction of Murah Soares and Dudu Tucci - Afoxé Loni performed with a selected group of about 25 drummers and dancers in front of the Berliner Reichstag at the 10th anniversary of the German Reunion, at the closing celebration of the EXPO 2000 in Hannover, and at the opening of Berlin's Olympic Stadium in 2004.