Mai,born in Lourenço Marques, current city of Maputo, in November 1957. He took a liking for the lyrics very early, through the so-called readings of string books which will have contributed to face the challenge that was formulated by a friend of writing a book.

The devastation that the HIV/AIDS pandemic has caused in society and even more so when the effects of HIV have been felt in friends and family, have encouraged him to put his sensitivity on the paper. "The Public Enemy", his second book, is for obvious reasons the first to be published.