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Tom Phillips in Brasília

‘I’m holding his political wake’: the trumpeter waiting to mark Bolsonaro’s judgment day

Fabiano Leitão playing the trumpet outside  a condominium called Solar de Brasilia
Leitão, the ‘Trompetista’, playing the funeral march in front of the condominium where Bolsonaro lives in Brasilia on 4 August. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/The Guardian

When Jair Bolsonaro was Brazil’s far-right president, the guerrilla trumpeter Fabiano Leitão would stalk him around the capital, Brasília, to taunt him with renditions of the anti-fascist anthem Bella Ciao.

In March, when Bolsonaro was charged with plotting a coup, Leitão changed his tune and began provoking the ex-president by serenading him with Chopin’s Funeral March. “It symbolises his political demise, which is what we want to see,” said the 46-year-old musician.

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