Review: Seu Jorge

Review: Seu Jorge

Seu Jorge 'Cru': Aidin Vaziri | Decent performances from Bill Murray and Owen Wilson aside, everyone knows Seu Jorge was the real star of Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou." Wearing a red beanie and crooning endearingly weird versions of old David Bowie songs -- in Portuguese -- he was the only reason anyone sat through it twice. It turns out the part-time actor has been a full-time pop star in Brazil's rough favelas for years. On his second solo album, recorded in Paris, he reaches out to the rest of the world with skeletal dance tracks ("Mania de Peitão [Large Chested Mania]"), dreamy ballads ("Fiore de la Città") and the kind of extraterrestrial covers (Elvis' "Don't") that ensure he steals the show off the big screen, as well.