Lagum

A Facebook post, then a record with a date in it

Lagum came together in 2014 in Minas Gerais after Pedro Calais posted a composition on Facebook and a local promoter noticed it. The group that formed around him — Calais on vocals, Otávio "Zani" Cardoso and Jorge Borges on guitars, Francisco "Chicão" Jardim on bass — has kept that core intact ever since, and Belo Horizonte has remained the band's home city rather than a stop on a map.

The debut, Seja o Que Eu Quiser, went out in May 2016 with no campaign behind it. Calais has described the release in flat terms: the band simply put the album into the world, and there was no plan. One of its tracks was called "2026", and its narrator makes plans for August of that year — a line written by musicians in their early twenties with no particular reason to believe they would still be a band by then. The date sat on the record for a decade, picked over by fans, before the month actually arrived.

"Deixa", and the years on a major

The commercial break came in 2018 with an acoustic version of "Deixa" recorded with the singer Ana Gabriela. It spread after Neymar shared it during that summer's World Cup and became one of the most-played songs in Brazil, which was enough to bring Sony Music to the table; the band signed that year.

Three albums followed on the major: Coisas da Geração in 2019, Memórias (de onde eu nunca fui) in 2021 and Depois do Fim in 2023. The run brought Prêmio Multishow de Música Brasileira awards for group of the year in 2020, 2021 and 2022, and Latin Grammy nominations in the Portuguese-language rock or alternative album category in 2022 and 2024. It also brought the hardest thing the band has had to absorb in public: the percussionist known as Tio Wilson, Breno Braga, died in September 2020, and he has stayed part of the group's shows rather than being quietly written out of them.

Independent again, and an album about screens

Lagum left the major system and released their fifth album, As Cores, As Curvas e as Dores do Mundo, in May 2025 as an independent act — the same footing they started on. The band's stated reasons were artistic freedom and the fact that, a decade in, they finally understood how the industry around them actually worked.

The record runs to ten new songs and is pointedly about the present: urban routine set against a world filtered through screens, digital relationships, and how much of what reaches a person has already been shaped before it arrives. Musically it was built to behave like the band's live set rather than the other way round, which is unusual enough to be worth saying — most Brazilian pop records of this scale are arranged in the studio and then reverse-engineered for the stage.

The album also became the spine of a touring cycle that has now run for well over a year under its own title.

2026: summer sheds, Europe, and an arena support slot

The year opened with an eight-city summer run between January and March: São Bernardo do Campo on 23 January, Bauru on the 24th, Rio de Janeiro on the 31st, Balneário Camboriú on 6 February, Jaraguá do Sul on the 8th, then Rondonópolis, Cuiabá and Campo Grande across 6, 7 and 8 March. Calais summed up the preceding twelve months simply as a very significant year for the band.

April took the As Cores show to Europe, with the Amsterdam date logged at the Melkweg's Oude Zaal on 9 April alongside announced stops in Berlin, Paris, London, Dublin, Barcelona, Porto and Lisbon. The Brazilian festival circuit filled the winter — Festival Timbre in Uberlândia on 9 August, Porão do Rock in Fortaleza on 14 August.

September was the biggest step up in room size. Lagum opened Maroon 5's Brazilian dates on the Love Is Like World Tour: São José do Rio Preto on the 6th, Nubank Parque in São Paulo on the 8th and Casa de Apostas Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador on the 10th, playing eight-song support sets in stadium-scale venues, with a further São Paulo date at Terra SP on the 12th. It followed a stint opening for Imagine Dragons. Support slots of that kind are a reasonable test of whether a band's songs survive being played to a crowd that did not come for them.

Lagum em Todo Lugar, and what happens this weekend

On 5 August 2026 — the month the 2016 song had named — the band announced Lagum em Todo Lugar, a national tour produced by Live Nation to mark ten years since the debut. Tickets went on sale the same day, with a fan-club window at 11am, general sale online at midday and box offices at 1pm. Calais called it surreal to reach August 2026 and find that much of what the band had imagined was actually happening.

The tour is planned for ten Brazilian cities spread across late 2026 and early 2027, and seven dates are currently on sale: Arena Hall in Belo Horizonte on 17 October, Qualistage in Rio de Janeiro on 7 November, Ulysses Guimarães in Brasília on 28 November, Multiplan Hall in Ribeirão Preto on 5 December, Araújo Vianna in Porto Alegre on 11 December, P12 Jurerê in Florianópolis on 12 December and Cine Lido in Curitiba on 13 December. Dates in the Northeast are still to be announced.

Belo Horizonte opens it on Saturday 17 October, doors at 7pm and the band on at 9pm, with tickets from R$70. The band has promised a staging and lighting design built specifically for this run rather than a carried-over festival rig, and Chicão's pitch for the opening night is that it contains things the band's audience has not seen before. Alongside the concerts, the anniversary project includes filmed live sessions in locations chosen for their symbolism — the Amazon, and a cable car in Rio — which is where the tour's title comes from: the idea of putting the band in every kind of place rather than only in halls.