Published on December 2nd, 2021 | by Jameelah "Just Jay" Wilkerson

Saulo Oliveira S. – Remarkable Activist and Artist

The number of artists using their voices for today’s agendas has grown significantly, especially in the last decade. This is due to disregard for environment, something that has become increasingly notorious, so, in this scenario, it’s comprehensible that such issues have been drawing more attention from conscious artists.

One of these artists is Saulo Oliveira S., often simplified as Saulö or Saulö Ol. S., aka Prince of Rock, a british-brazilian Rock musician, singer-songwriter, born on July 14th, 1993, Birmingham.

Most known for his musical work, he wrote the songs, sang, composed and played all instruments in the conceptual album Wild Horizon, among a few singles. But he is getting noticed not only for his musical traits but also for being politically active. The fact is that the quintessential essence of Saulo seems to drive him constantly to nonconformity with things that happen threatening the health of planet Earth.

As a matter of fact, rests on him the restlessness of the new generations, a claim for change. Joining personalities such as Greta Thunberg and Leonardo DiCaprio in a recent movement against the burning fires in the Amazon Rainforest, he can be spot talking about the theme in a short video on his official twitter profile under the tag #defundbolsonaro.

As a Brazilian citizen and as someone who spends plenty of his time in the tropical country, Saulo’s concerns are current and understandable. In the video he claims that the fires have increased during Bolsonaro’s term as president and demands international brands an intervention by avoiding shaking hands with the far-right leader.

Considering his background, as a kid that attended a very-known Jesuit private school in his city, Curitiba, learnt to read at the age of five and got his degree in law at the Pontifical Catholic University, with emphasis in environmental law and international law, the artist can be justifiably long winded about the issue. Mr. Oliveira also wrote an article published at the most traditional and important legal magazine of Brazil, Review of the Courts, edition of September, number 1031, from Thomson Reuters.

In his article, called “Dam safety coefficient; critical analysis of the measurement method, risks of disruption and their legal and socio-environmental impacts”, which was also an acclaimed graduation thesis, the writer states that Dams, in general, started to represent, in the Brazilian scenario, constructions that are directly linked to a high risk potential in face of increasing possibilities of rupture and that the harmful consequences are irreversible not only for the structures but also for the environment as it can affect the flora and fauna, and, take to the loss of human lives.

Speaking beyond just through his lyrics, as an activist engaged in many actions, he is also a pacifist who already publicized his opinion against Julian Assange’s extradition and is well kwon in his long-term vegetarianism movement. The artist’s intention has been to further promote social and environmental causes through the potential of his growing voice, something, by the way, that has been reasonably achieved.

The songwriter is ahead of British Rock Records since 2018, his own independent label. His catalogue already shows the craftsmanship in writing and political vision of the world considering that in his single “What Governs Behind Them?” he protests against destructive leaders who don’t matter the ecological crisis and praises the freedom of Lula, former president of Brazil, since he sings “(…) free the working class hero man, give him the Nobel, power to the people”, regarding that episode in Brazil’s recent political saga in which Lula got in jail in a conspiracy to not get elected.

Whether writing songs with provocative lyrics, tales, protests and rock operas or speaking in behalf of the wellbeing of nature and human race, Saulo Oliveira S. is a living prove that in modern times artists are more committed to openly express their point of view in order to start the pave of a long winding road to a future where next generations can live in a more inclusive, tolerant and green world.

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