Brazilians everywhere

Somebody asked me how many Brazilians are living in Prague, I just knew that on internet community we are 595 ,but I tried to find out and he is the results, of course that those numbers do not include the illegal people or those who never registered at the embassies. Have a look how many Brazilians are living in UK, Spain, Portugal and Germany. No wonder why they have big carnivals parade.

Germany : 59,338 Austria :10,000 Belgium: 43,638
Bulgaria : 60 Croatia: 180 Denmark: 2,500
Spain : 150,000 Finland: 510 France: 30,000
Greece: 5,000 Netherlands: 25,000 Hungary: 200
Ireland :20,000 Italy: 132,000 Norway: 2,160
Poland : 1,500 Portugal: 160,000 United Kingdom: 300,000
Czech Republic :150 Romania: 110 Russia: 180
Serbia :63 Sweden: 7,641 Switzerland: 60,000
Ukraine :86 Vatican :14

And now, to count one more, I am leaving to the airport to pick up my Gooood Brazilian friend that is coming just for weekend and the sun run away. On Face book the other friend living in Prague, to say exactly, Santiago Ferreira, just told me he has some concert today, but he does know where hehehehe but it is close to Bila Labut. Maybe I will find this place with my Brazilian friend number 151 hehehhehe. Kisses

Fernanda Abreu

Samba-Funk for all of us! Today, I want to show you the girl who sings Rio 40 Degrees to send this rain away. Fernanda was raised in a middle-class family of the south Zone, a neighbourhood of Rio. Her first notable public appearance was the backing vocal of the band Blitz until 1986. After that, in 1990, she started a solo career singing funk, disco and dance music, achieving great success in her native country.

Her first solo album, SLA Radical Dance Disco Club (1990), and had a hit with A Noite. Her second album, SLA2/Be Sample (1992), was one of the earliest Brazilian pop records to extensively employ the sampler, and had success with Rio 40 Graus, portraying Rio de Janeiro climate, people and lifestyle. Since then, Abreu has been considered the first lady of Brazilian funk. She mixed samba, pop, funk, MPB and so on to her music and it is really good the results.

In her songs, she often talks about Brazilian culture and people. She loves to show her passion for Brazil and Rio, but in the same time she criticizes. Her lyrics are always very positive, there is no drama, even in her love songs there not pain and suffer.

I am bringing to you videos to have a look on her and also the link to have her songs.

http://www.4shared.com/dir/7014290/b9fec5cd/Fernanda_Abreu.html

Carnavais!!!

Until we do not have any news from the Prague carnival, let me just let you know that during the summer a lot of cities around the world is celebrating the carnival parades. Some weeks ago, Amsterdam did great, and last weekend also Denmark and San Francico.

If you are planning to go to Finland,19th Helsinki Samba Carnival will take place in June 12th-4th. The Finnish samba schools (nowadays total 7) are having their major happening during weekend including Finnish Championship competition with high class Rio style parades (5 participating this year). In between you'll find all kinds of carnival groups like capoeiristas, Sambic, salsa dancers, visiting samba group from Sweden etc. All together there will be almost 1500 participants on the street and number of audience exceeds 30000. In Fri and Sat evening there will be great Bailes of Carnivals presenting shows and a lot of partying. HSC is one of the biggest free, open air happenings in Helsinki and it's been elected 2006 in the TOP50 festivities of Europe.

The Carnival in Prague is too far to be one of the biggest in Europe but does not mean that is not good and we cannot have fun!Let us wait the news to see what the carnival will bring us this year.