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My musical life has brought me close to the sense of saudade, although I can’t claim it as my own, you need to be Brasilian to do that, but I feel both an affinity and a sense of brotherhood with my musician and singer friends from Brasil, all of whom experience and gift this feeling to the rest of us.
Long ago I had the great pleasure of meeting Dom Um Ramao, Milton Nacimento, Marcos Valle, Ricardo Silveira, Laudir de Oliviera, Rubens Bassini, Oscar Castro Neves, Sergio Mendez and Gracinha Leporace, Claudio Slon, Marcio Montaroyas, Paulinho Da Costa, Otavio Baily, Ivan Linns, Flora and Airto, Gilberto Gil, Antonio Carlos, Paulo, and Daniel Jobim, Dori Nana, and Danilo Caymmi, Caetano Veloso, Simone, Djavan, Renato Braz.....and I was privileged to record and/or play live with almost everyone in this prestigious list. The gravity of contribution to music that these artists have made literally puts Brasil in the center of global music life...as if the musical equator crosses earth over Brasil and touches us all.
Recently I played in Ouro Preto at the Tudo Jazz Festival with meu irmao Oscar Castro Neves and later in Rio with my recent musical acquisitions, Totonho Villeroy, and had great time with the gang I’d not known but knew about before...Ana Carolina, Marcelo Acosta, Paula Santoro Luiz Brasil, Eduardo Neves, Gastao Villeroy, and Lincoln Cheib. There are too many stories to tell about each person for now, but I encourage you to google these artists for a beautiful adventure in music and lyrics.
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