Artist Info: Sol Nation

Sol Nation is an Australian world music band, and a meeting of nations and cultures - East Timorese, Indigenous and Australian. Sol Nation embodies Melbourne’s multiculturalism and what can be achieved through music - bridging cultures, languages and borders.

East Timorese vocalist Paulo Almeida is the voice of Sol Nation, soaring and weaving through the music in a mixture of languages, a product of his life experience living in several different countries during his homeland’s occupation by Indonesia. [read more...]