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 with the audiovisual EP Raízes & Cultura (recorded in 2016), followed the same year by a nationally televised run on Rede Globo’s SuperStar. After festival appearances (including Web FestValda in 2017), GrooVI expanded Raízes & Cultura into a full release in 2018, pairing Amani Kush's socially conscious writing with roots-heavy arrangements and collaborations tied to the Zion I Kings camp and Brazilian dub specialists. In 2020 he released “Tudo Vai Dar Certo” with Natiruts (a stand-alone single linked to the América Vibra project) and also issued GrooVI titles like “Ancestrais,” then pushed further into album form with GrooVI & Amani Kush’s I-tal in 2021. He kept collaborating across the Brazilian reggae circuit with Sattivus on “Tudo Que Necessita” (2022), returned to GrooVI releases like ELEVE SUA VIBRAÇÃO (2023), and showed up on later singles including “Voltei Mais Forte” with Rafael Senegal (2024) and "Expressar Gratidão" (2025).
