Diogo Álvaro Ferreira Moncorvo, known professionally as Baco Exu do Blues (born 11 January 1996), is a Brazilian rapper, singer, and composer.

[1] The main characteristics of his work include strong metaphors with raw lyricism and poetics, with topics ranging from love and sex to power, religion, and society.

Baco Exu do Blues began to gain popularity with his 2016 track Sulicídio, which he composed in 2016 with Diomedes Chinaski.

[2] The track features both criticizing the current state of the Brazilian rap scene for being concentrated almost solely in the Southeast region of Brazil, specifically in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, reclaiming more visibility to the musical production in Baco's home region of the Northeast and in the North.

His album takes inspiration from Brazilian authors such as Jorge Amado, Machado de Assis, and Mário de Andrade, famed Bahian artist Mário Cravo Júnior, and movies such as the 2011 Pedro Almodóvar film The Skin I Live In, of which a song from the album is named after.