BRAZILIAN HEART FEBRUARY 2009!

SAMBAGURU'S NEW CD "TRIBO" IS AVAILABLE NOW!




Visit www.sambaguru.com to get your copy with DigStation!
Photography and Graphic Design of the CD by Caesar Lima:
http://pixelpastahome.blogspot.com/2009/01/samabaguru-tribo.html

SHOWS
Katia Moraes & Pure Samba
Saturday, February 21st from 9pm to 2am
At the Brazilian Carnaval @ the new HOLLYWWOD PALLADIUM! (A Live Nation Venue)
www.braziliannites.com
Also featuring Nation Beat, Tropidanza, Viver Brasil Dance Company, DJ Seduce, Mestre Amem & Capoeira Batuque, among others.

Monday, February 9 at 8pm @ Hotel Angeleno (Brentwood)
Where Sunset Blvd. meets the 405 fwy
Featuring Ryan Cross, Lorca, Cristiano Novelli, Bill Brendle and Katia Moraes playing Brazilian Jazz.
Great food, great view and great music!
http://www.hotelangeleno.com/

Wednesday, February 11 at 8pm
The Latin Project @ Little Temple (Santa Monica, CA)
Featuring Jez Colin, Debi Nova, Joel Virgel, Mitchell Long, Katia Moraes, Jorge Villanueva
www.myspace.com/thelatinproject

VOICE CLASS FOR BEGINNERS (ALL AGES)
Sing Like a Brazilian Bird! (310) 908-0835

PHOTOGRAPHY
http://www.jorgevismara.net/index.php
CLICK ON Rain in the Amazon river…

BRAZILIAN INTERNATIONAL PRESS AWARD
You can still vote! I’m nominated by the Brazilian International Press Award in the “Best Brazilian singer in the US” Category (Category #9)
It’s by Popular Vote. Can you give me your support?
www.pressaward.com/votacao.php (scroll down to category #9)

SPIRITUAL CELEBRATION
Valentine Ecstasy Ritual Concert on February 14th, 8-10pm
With Micheline Berry, DJ Drez, Doug Lunn and Vida Vierra, among others. $15 in advance ($20 at door) @ Exhale venice (245 Main St., Venice CA 90291) 310.450.7676
http://www.zendancing.com/

An evening of Brazilian music and Forro
Feb 18th at 8pm. No cover @ Santino's 3021 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica

EXHIBITION
RIO DE JANEIRO,
TWO CENTURIES OF URBAN CHANGE 1808 TO 2008
From January to June 2009 @ Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA. This exhibit celebrates the launch of the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies. http://international.ucla.edu/lac/events/showevent.asp?eventid=7203

SAMBA ENREDOS OF 2009
Listen to the songs of each Samba School in Rio de Janeiro!
http://odia.terra.com.br/carnaval/sambas_2009.asp
Just click on any samba school's name and dance!!!

BRAZILIAN SOAP OPERA
Caminho das Indias is the name of the new soap opera produced by TV Globo. It takes place in India and Brasil. In the first chapter there is an explanation of how the castes were created... Time to check your Portuguese!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huhpZLSz-a0&feature=related

BOOK
“The Way of Intelligence” by J. Krishnamurti. It reminded me when I read Plato. It requires lots of attention and patience. I was watching the movie “Hurricane” and Denzel Washington’s character was reading this one.
“(…) My relation to you is based on the thought which I have about you. The relationship is not with you, but with the image that I have.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti

OBAMA AND LINCOLN
http://www.azstarnet.com/opinion/
Scroll down, click on The Best of Fitz 2008, then choose the last dot (November 5, 2008)

SANTANNA AND DJAVAN AT ROCK IN RIO IN 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peHh8kD9G3k
My friend Walfredo Reyes is playing drums. Actually, Walfredo, Haakon Graf and I will be playing at Porto Alegre in Pasadena on February 13 and 14.

Peace, Light and Namastê
Katia : )
P.S.: My friend and writer Ernesto Lechner sent me this link to a Roberto Carlos video from 1970. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtNnivozZVY&feature=related