The project was born in 2012 from the desire of spreading Choro (to be pronounced “shoro”) in Italy and Europe, to give everyone the opportunity of appreciating this sophisticated instrumental Brazilian music, good to be played and to be listened to. Since then, Choro de Rua duo, formed by the Italian flutist Barbara Piperno and the Brazilian 7-string guitarist and mandolinist Marco Ruviaro, has had an intense musical activity trying to disseminate Choro, playing, recording and making researches. Their first album, Aeroplanando, released in 2013, represents one of the fruits of this passionate work and has been spreaded out in more than 30 countries. In 2020, Choro de Rua releases its new album, SANTO BÁLSAMO, made up of great contemporary compositions of Choro and which hosts two incredible guests: Gabriele Mirabassi (clarinet) and Elizabeth Fadel (piano). What is Choro? Around 1870, popular music players in Rio de Janeiro — that was the economic and cultural capital of Brazil in those years — started to perform the repertoire of European dances in vogue amid the aristocracy of XIX century (like waltz, scottish and polka) in a “brazilerized” form, with strong influence of African origin’s rhythms. Thus CHORO was born! Since then, the musical universe of Choro has always embraced different rhythms and styles, including polka, waltz, baião, frevo, maxixe and tango brasileiro, and had a decisive influence on the development of samba and bossa-nova.