Tetsuo Sakurai-Dennis Chambers-Greg Howe..during their tour!

Gentle Hearts Tour 2004 - The invisible way. WHEN WORDS ARE USELESS, THAT'S WHEN THE MUSIC MAKES SENSE, TAKES PLACE, FILLS THE SPACE, TO EXPRESS THINGS THAT YOU CANNOT EXPRESS BY WORDS.

Promise Ain't Enough (1998) - Hall & Oates

Foo Fighters - Wheels

POA/RS-Batizado:

Mais uma Brasileira na familia! Rodrigo, mi sobrino, and his wife Cristiane brought their daughter Rafaela for the first time to POA.

There are more than 145 churches in POA, and Saint Sebastian church is one of them. This collective baptism was in Saint Sebastian church in Porto Alegre. Athough Rodrigo is now living in São Paulo (2 years), where Rafaela was born, they decided to bring her to baptism in Porto Alegre cause he loves too much this medium size city, his birthplace. He's now playing along with the São Paulo Symphonic orchestra and have to live in São Paulo. So Rafaela is a "paulistana", (born is S.Paulo). He has already toured the U.S (Chicago, Boston,and other cities) and Europe with this orchestra. Before that, two years ago, he was playing with the Porto Alegre Symphonic Orchestra(OSPA) and before that he stayed four years in the Julliard School, New York, (one of the most important in the world), where he studied violoncello. He was in New York on september, 11/2001, in the Lincoln Center. That day we got worried, until a friend of him called his mom telling he said he was all right! All the students were oriented to leave their rooms with a pillow and go to the basement. Telephone calls to Brazil were difficult, but in one or two days the routine of classes were normal again. He plays violoncello since he was 5 years old, and before Julliard, he stayed in Hartford/NY. He played in several orchestras here, and took classes with brazilian cello player Antonio Menezes, Steven Thomas from Hartford University/NY, among other great cello players. In N.York he has already played the Carnegie Hall. Antonio Menezes invited him to study in Basel, Switzerland, and Steven Thomas invited him to study in Hartford, where he stayed, before he run a test and went to Julliard. My mom and sister- his grandma and mother- are going next friday, 15, to stay a week with him in São Paulo.