Genres Hip hop Occupation(s) Rapper Name Dum Dum | Years active 1988-present | |
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Birth name Washington Roberto Santana Born 25 May 1969
Grajau, Sao Paulo, Brazil ( 1969-05-25 ) Labels Faccao Central Producoes Fonograficas, Discoll Box | ||
Washington Roberto Santana, better known by his stage name Dum-Dum (born 25 March 1969) is a Brazilian rapper.
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He is a member and one of the founders of the Facção Central group next to the Carlos Eduardo Taddeo who decided to pursue a solo career.
Biography
Washington was born in São Paulo in 1969 and lived with a poor childhood. He started working early, at the age of eleven, delivering newspaper. As employment did not yield expected, he decided to become a fishmonger, profession where he served until 17, when he joined in a photolithographs company that went bankrupt.
Washington – which at the time had received the Dum-Dum nickname, placed by his grandmother in a black character comic – then decided to enter the world of crime, as a dealer, as well as marijuana and cocaine user. He was first arrested at age 27. Dum-Dum spent three months in jail, during which his daughter was born, to be acquitted for lack of evidence.
The first contact of Dum-Dum with rap happened in a show of Rational MCs group, the chief of Brazil in this style, and that's when the ex-con decided to turn singer. According to his own words, "If it was not rap I would not be alive." He joined the Central Faction in 1989, when the group had grown to three members, and remains the same to this day, with the production of eight jobs.