Toty Sa'Med is a Lisbon-based singer, composer and
multi-instrumentalist from Luanda, Angola. Toty’s unique brand of Afro-Jazz and neo-soul is bringing traditional African music to the forefront of today’s culture through creative compositions and a sound that is equally inspired by Bonga and Paulo Flores as it is by D'Angelo.
In 2016, Toty released “Ingombota,” an intimate EP that re-imagines classics from the Angolan songbook, co-produced by Kalaf Epalanga. ‘Namoro,’ the final track on the EP, was recognized as the best Afro-Jazz by Rádio Luanda. Toty has since partnered with artists Aline Frazão and José Eduardo Agualusa — with whom he composed the title song for the album ‘Moura,’ by Fado singer Ana Moura — as well as composed for Dino d'Santiago, Bateu Matou, Cristina Branco and Sara Tavares.
In 2019, Toty released the single Maldita, a song that breathes Luanda and Rio de Janeiro, featuring Domenico Lancellotti on drums. Building on this foundation during extensive periods of isolation in 2020, he wrote and recorded his first solo album, set to release in the Fall of 2021.
