PICTURE ME 

Starting off as a pro in 1989 with Romanças (folk, pop)

and DSB (jazz, funk)

 
Willing to learn from the best

Yearbook photo. below: Francesco Miccolis, Jody Brummell, Masashi Tomikawa.  middle: Rick Stracko, Pete Zeldman, me, John Castellano, Tony Carbone, Danny ?, Gert Staeuble.  top: Curtis Smith, Tim Reinfeld, Bradford Reed, Michael Lauren, Christian Diggelmann

Bobby Sanabria                                                                      Pete Zeldman
   
 
Always had a helluvalotta fun!

 
Live with Trape-Zape in 2003                                                Recording live with Navegante in 2002
   
 
with Zappanoia at the Zappanale XIV, Bad Doberan, in 2003



 
TV2 with Ad Lib in 2001                                                              and earlier in 1996
   
 
 O Ó Que Som Tem? rehearsal 2002                                  Rehearsing with Antropófagos in Oslo, March 2006
   

with balkan band Rakija at the Oslo Jazzhus, 2008                                      with Antropófagos at M.S. Innvik, Oslo 2007
   

                                    with MaghrebFunk, Fredrikstad 2010                                                  with Romanças, Azores 1991                                   
     

and so on...
       

   


 
Worked with lots of fantastic people/musicians.

My first studio session, with Romanças in December 1990. sitting: Fernando Pereira, Eduardo Paes Mamede (producer), José Barros, Pedro D’orey
standing: João Ramos, me, Fernando Abrantes (sound engineer), Fernando Molina, Pedro Batalha
   

Alexandre Dinis and Sérgio Crestana from Aura in 1993

 
Ad Lib with António Gonçalves and Pedro Pacheco




with Rão Kyao, Janita Salomé and Fernando Molina at Lisbon's Expo '98

with Janita...

                       with Francisco Abreu                                                             with Paulo Jorge Ferreira and Jorge Reis
   
In Miami Beach yet with some of Portugal´s finest: Rui Alves, Tomás Pimentel, Mário Delgado, Paulo Jorge Ferreira, Janita Salomé, Bernardo Sassetti

 
In Navegante with José Barros, Vasco Sousa, Carlos Passos, Miguel Tapadas, Hugo Tapadas, Miguel Catalão, António José Martins, Rui Vaz and José Manuel David

  with José Manuel David                                                                          with Vasco Sousa
   

 At the Gouveia Art Rock Festival in 2005 with Trape-Zape, feat. Fernando Guiomar, Vasco Sousa and José Manuel David
   
with Fernando Guiomar

with Vasco Sousa

 
O Ó Que Som Tem? w/ Rui Júnior, António José Martins, Fernando Molina, Mário Santos and Nuno Patrício

in trio with Rui Júnior and Fernando Molina .
   

   

   

I was even “allowed” to double as drummer and lead vocalist…

 
...in Zappanoia  with Eduardo Cunha, Carlos Pereira, Rui Sousa, Diogo Sottomayor, Sofia Borges


top: Xmas 2003, A Comuna, Lisboa     bottom: Zappanale XIV, Bad Doberan, 2003


Charlie & The Bluescats with Carlos Pereira, Fernando Sousa, Tiago Machado,...
   


 
I taught drums, percussion and rhythms to over 1000 students, privately and in schools and orchestras

conducting a Tocá Rufar youth percussion orchestra rehearsal in 2000  

 
And in September 2004 I moved to Oslo, Norway...

my first gig: the Nordstrand Janitsjarkorps
   
 
Antropófagos w/ Janko Radovanovic, Rafael Lemos, Are W. Thoma and Célio de Carvalho
   

Rakija with Biljana Dragisic, Merete Fjelbo, Irena Banjeglav, Ingrid Eliassen, Janko Radovanovic and Are W. Thoma




Latini w/ Célio de Carvalho, Cláudio Latini, Gerardo Orrego and me

Latini's groove section: Célio de Carvalho, Gerardo Orrego, me


Pausefiskene with Ole Henrik Brekke, Gunnar Sæbø and Glenn Sætre


Maghreb Funk with Said Rifay, Lizzie Hagen, Mostafa Bouabdilla, Hassan Maroine, Tim Lowerson, Kim Koffeld, Diego Brasil

with Said Rifay

 
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