One my three-month stay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2007, this song was like an anthem as I heard it played live in every bar and club I went to.

See photos of my Rio de Janeiro three-month holiday.

It’s one of the songs that make me miss Rio so much and I cannot wait to spend quite a while there on my world tour.

For the fun of it, I added some vids of various songs that were inspired from: “Canto De Ossanha”

Enjoy!

Vinícius de Moraes with Friends

Astrud Gilberto

Vinícius de Moraes, Jobim, Toquinho & Miúcha

Baden Powell

Jurassic 5

Black Eyed Peas ft. De La Soul – Cali to New York (Sampled)

In this eventful new year, some music has the capacity to soothe the soul and give us hope for the future. Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is a musician from Zimbabwe who plays the mbira in a beautiful manner.

Her rendition (video below) is an example of things that make me keep faith knowing that no matter the hardships our precious Earth faces, we still are blessed with beauty and goodness even if sometimes it’s hard to stop and serious pay attention to.

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, ladies and gentlemen…

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After 15 days* of mental gaming and torturing all my friends, supporters and colleagues worldwide, the day has come to at last let the cat out of the bag and make my biggest announcement ever.

In 2010, I will embark on the world’s first round-the-world DJ tour… by car! Yes, you read that right: one world, one DJ, one car, hundreds of thousands of kilometres or miles.

This DJ tour/road trip of a lifetime is to fulfill a lifelong dream to travel all over the planet and DJ for and meet for its diverse people but to also set a Guiness World of Record for the largest world tour ever by an artist.

Historic trips of this nature tend to attract widespread attention, which will be a perfect opportunity to raise awareness to my number one concern: the one billion people who may die of hunger if we, fellow humans, do nothing about it.

Did you know for instance that every six seconds a child dies because of hunger and related causes? And that hunger really is preventable if we just pull up our socks and decide to play our part.

This is why, I have dedicated this world tour to raising awareness and raising funds for the World Food Programme, the largest hunger relief agency in the world that is doing amazing work in fighting and preventing starvation in regions where people are literally dying because they do not have anything to put in their mouth.

My goal is to get the music and nighlife world to band together and fight hunger once and for all! Ambitious project? Yes! Achievable? Oh, Yes!

Close friends of mine certainly know that I have a passion for traveling, music, DJing but I seldom ever reveal that I am not too proud to admit that most of my life’s accomplishments have only benefited me and the people close to me.

I am part of a really small percentage (I would dare say 0.5%) of Africans who 1) were raised in above comfortable surroundings 2) managed to escape war and violence 3) were able to immigrate in a Western country without any hassle and actually hit the ground running – unlike many immigrants, I landed in Canada with a full bank account and was able to DJ and conduct lucrative business activities from day one). You could say that I am plagued with “living-the-good-life-while-some-in-the-world-are-hurting guilt”.

This Big Journey is the ultimate opportunity to combine my restless rebellious nature to always want to discover new places and people, my passion for music and DJing and above all to finally use my God-given talent and blessings for the well-being of those who cannot help themselves. To quote a good friend of mine “If I don’t do it, who will?”

To follow JaBig’s biggest journey ever, please join me on twitter or Facebook where I will be making constant updates and answering all the questions that you may have (when exactly, where first, with who, how much, what I am most fearful of, and so forth…).

http://twitter.com/JaBig

http://www.facebook.com/JaBig

Edited to add:

* On December 1st, 2009, I posted a Facebook status that said: “15 Days to Go Until JaBig’s Biggest Announcement Ever!”. Every day I would update the countdown and as the day went by, the more restless and curious my friends got until eventually, 15 days later, I made the announcement that you have just read.