Amani Kush worked as a Brazilian reggae singer-songwriter and bandleader whose
recorded career connected street-level sound-system culture with a more formal
roots reggae band context. In the late 2000s and early 2010s he operated under
the SeeaRasta credit in Rio de Janeiro projects like Som Central, and in 2017 he
drew wider attention when Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler jumped in for an
impromptu “Imagine” duet with him at Arpoador. In parallel, he fronted the Porto
Alegre collective GrooVI, a group that had formed in 2010 as a backing band and
shifted into original material w...