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Brazilian singer Glaucia Nasser & percussionist Sammy Figueroa 

Sammy Figueroa & Glaucia Nasser

“Talisman” featuring Sammy Figueroa and Glaucia Nasser,  is a perfect balance between the exciting Latin percussion of double Grammy nominee and renowned musician Sammy Figueroa (Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, David Bowie, Mariah Carey and many more) and Brazilian singer Glaucia Nasser. "Like peanut butter and chocolate" this combination of Brazilian song and Latin percussion comes out as a surprising and tasty combination

Percussionist Sammy Figueroa is considered one of the world’s great musicians. In a career spanning over thirty years he has played with Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, the Brecker Brothers, Mariah Carey, David Bowie, John McLaughlin, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D’Rivera, Chaka Khan, Blues Traveler, Ashford and Simpson, Natalie Merchant and countless others. He has also co-produced several albums, most notably the Cuban a cappella group Vocal Sampling.

His other group, Sammy Figueroa and his Latin Jazz Explosion, is one of the most exciting in jazz today. Known for their exciting performances, enhanced by Sammy’s ebullient humor , the band has recorded three albums, with two of them nominated for the Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album.

Glaucia has garnered critical praise from notable names of Brazilian music, such as Nelson Motta, Roberto Menescal and Ivan Lins.  Glaucia’s four previous albums have been extremely well received by the media and fans alike.  Her extensive concerts and world tours have built a fantastic following. 

Talisman means good luck charm, amulet, a symbol with magical powers.   We chose Nicolas Roerich's Banner of Peace symbol as our talisman because, among other things, it symbolizes the three of us, Sammy, Glaucia and Rachel, who had the good luck to come together to make magic in the recording studio.

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WEST OF THE WHEEL

J. Wesley Boyd Jr., scholar & facilitator 

"I think of all the time this brother of mine has been working, assisting births, unfolding dreams and building relationships between people, cultures and political factions. I've seen in our work together the Orisha powers employed to tear away Maya (illusion) knowing that the attendant risk factors will create change after fear and resistance have come and gone. It is his process, his way of living in this realm of healers that assuages my concerns about things not changing. 

You see if we are to change the world we change ourselves, our perceptions. We change our belief into knowing and our harbored resentments into loving exchanges. This is the essence of spiritual work and the chief tools of the initiated is love, play, magic and dance!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 8.19.14

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a Cat she is. . .

The Sexy Dimes and Faces of F.B

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Corujão PLAYBOY

Brazilian Playmate

Corujão PLAYBOY: Poucas ex-BBB saíram na PLAYBOY duas vezes em um curto período de tempo. Uma delas foi a incrível Cacau Colucci http://abr.io/I1xj

sacred FORM

Nicole Bahlshttp://abr.io/HsDD

Brazilian Playmates

3's a crowd 

Playboy Brasil 

Brazilian Playmate

La Negra

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CAMILLA BELLE, the roundness of character. . .

Actress Camilla Belle's mother is Brazilian, her father is American. An only child. Speaks fluent English and Portuguese. Likes Brazilian food: feijoada (typical plate made with pork and beans), pão-de-queijo (typical bread made with cheese) and brigadeiro (sweet made with chocolate). Daughter of Cristina Routh. She was named after actress Renata Sorrah's character, Camila, in the Brazilian soap opera "Cavalo de Aço" (1973). 

Camilla likes to watch Brazilian soap operas with her grandmother Deborah and used to visit her mother's family in São Paulo. People call her by middle name Belle. Attended Marlborough School, an elite all girls school in Los Angeles. She is an aspiring classical pianist. She has also been involved in various charities and is an international spokesperson for "Kids With A Cause", created to provide a helping hand to children suffering from poverty, hunger, lack of education, neglect or abuse. http://www.listal.com/camilla-belle

BRAZILIAN MODEL

Camila Alves, Brazilian model & TV personality

dark beauty from BRAZIL

Brazilian actress Alice Braga

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BRAZILIAN actress



Brazilian actress Alice Braga in Terminator



Brazilian actress Alice Braga

WARRIOR TEACHINGS: father to son

Brazilian bodybuilder Flavia Crisos' form

“Living in the present is more a cute thing to say. Not being a part of one's everyday practice modern people live in the future. You can spot the evidence of it in the walk and stances. The necks extend forward leading the awkward bodies to the next engagement. At concerts, and I have seen this from many stages I have performed on, people cannot get into the best music preoccupied by getting out of the audiotorium before the next guy.

Christians, obsessed with the rapture, cannot get through the present moments. Not living in the moment is a tell-tell-tale sign of immaturity, and a lack of the spiritual discipline one needs to grasp eternity. Perception enhanced by discipline is a spiritual practice not often not heard of, or at the highest level — practiced. That being said the scriptural texts are meaningless without the prerequisite disciplines of a spiritual warrior, which first of all requires one’s presence!” – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

unconditional love

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Brazilian bodybuilder Flavia Crisos

portal into other realms by tony r. march

As requested My brothers and Sisters of the light and love we give to the world... Focused with great intent to our brothers and Sisters of Brazil and Rio De Jenero . . .



Here is the center of all answers to my prayers. the source of my light, my Love my very life force the essence of who I am... my connection to the Great Grand Father, our God, we every one of us joined here together in all humility ask for this healing to take place as if like a miracle this living souls life and body is healed. WE are grateful Father beyond gratitude itself for this gift formed from your compassion the power of your love for us. I send all my power of healing, my light, my love to all that are in need of it, I give all that I am, all that I posses, I give everything, I with hold nothing. I am grateful beyond gratitude for what they are all about to receive, this gift of your love of them, these little ones whom are the affection of your eye. Thank you Great Grand Father creator of all things, know~er Of all things, Source of all things... Yes I will pay this price take me, I give my life over into your hands, if the price is my pain... to suffer this thing alone... or my life itself I offer to you in exchange for all to be healed of their illnesses, their inner peace and the outer Joy they may live for all to see as a witness to my sacrifice to you, my very own life I give if it is the price... your loving son,


Tony Gray Owl

Brazilian bodybuilder Flavia Crisos

Brazilian bodybuilder Flavia Crisos is a beautiful woman !!!!

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Flavia Crisos

Quilombos- The First Line of Resistance in Brazil

Quilombo, a Bantu word, describes what in English is called a Maroon Community. Escaped slaves ran to these communities to return to familiar African life, including languages, foods, music, religion and family forms. Like in the United States and the Caribbean Islands, Africans from all over the continent were brought across the Atlantic Ocean in chains during what would become known as The Middle Passage. What we do know about Brazil is that among the first enslaved Africans were Bantu people and other people of Southern Africa, especially from what is now known as Angola. These Southern Africans had been living in peaceful, agrarian village-kingdoms and when trouble arose, they would just move. The Bantus didn't really know trouble until 1652 and the Bantu wars didn't start until 1779. We can assume from the word Quilombo itself, that running was the earliest form of resistance to slavery in the New World.



Today, several hundred Quilombos have survived over the centuries. Many are involved in land rights disputes with the Brazilian government. In truth, we don't really know how many Quilombos remain in existence. Quilombos then and now are closed communities. Outsiders are not welcomed and strict traditions still dictate daily life.
The most famous of these pockets of resistance was Palmares. Palmares represents 100 years of active resistance to both the Portuguese and the Brazilians. Founded in 1603, it became home to 30,000 African and Brazilian born refugees. At it's height, it was fully fortified and kept stockpiles of foodstuffs to last 10 years. This was a community that not only survived, it thrived. Trade was active with nearby indigenous nations and with poor white immigrant communities as well.


Zumbi dos Palmares was the mythical, mystical King and Great Warrior who trained and led the defense armies that repelled the Brazilians in two wars, finally succumbing to the Portuguese in 1695. Popular history tells that the Portuguese were distracted by the Dutch invasion of the Northeastern region and did not turn their attention to squashing rebellious slaves until after the Dutch were expelled in 1654. Popular history tells that treachery and betrayal of his own people lead to the capture of the great Zumbi, subsequently beheaded and put on display in the main square of Recife for all to see.

But there is an untold story. An African story.

Many believe that the Gods foresaw the destruction of The Continent, and not able to stop it, dispatched Orishas to Earth to seek out a place where Old Africa would survive. Brazil was that place. And Zumbi, one of those Orishas. The following story of Zumbi dos Palmares is told from the perspective of the main character, Bambuza. At just 14 years old, our young hero decided to run away from the sugar plantation of Pedro Silva to seek his freedom in Palmares. Nothing from his slave life has prepared him for the sights he will see, the lessons he will learn and the adventures he will live at the side of his fellow Quilombolas. Trained as a warrior, he fights under Zumbi's command, both battles to free hundreds from plantation life and battles against the bands of vigilantes and the legions of armies sent to crush them. -Sadakne Baroudi, Rio de Janeiro, 2009

Sadakne Baroudi

"My maternal great-grandmother was run out of Syria for having 2 husbands and being a witch. My paternal step-great-grandmother left the entirety of a sizable family fortune to her maid. This inheritance prevents me from behaving by your rules." -Sadakne Baroudi

Sadakne Baroudi is a Brazilian researcher currently working on a comparative history of the institutionalization of slavery in Brazil and the US vis a vis contemporary debates on race and racism with a special focus on the role of Islam in African slave resistance movements in the New World.

Naná Vasconcelos playing berimbau in Brazil

Naná Vasconcelos playing berimbau live in 1983