The rise of Ceu from a chaotic Brazillian city to biggest coffee shop chain

'You have to love Sao Paulo to live in it," says singer Ceu of her home town, the biggest city in the southern Hemisphere. "It's very ugly, aggressive and chaotic, with too much traffic and pollution. But musically the whole of Brazil is here. Because this is where it's happening." There's a certain kind of female voice that epitomises the idea of Brazilian music - with a cool, bright siren tone, a kind of butter-wouldn't-melt-in-the-mouth quality which, for the international listener at least,

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