In April 2010, 5 months after I moved to Croatia, I received an email from a production company inviting me to participate in a TV show broadcast by RTP 1, ...

44 days of confinement 44 days of teleworking 44 days of teletalking 44 days of telelistening 44 days of telewriting 44 days of silent music 44 days of blank...

It's been a little over 1 year since I wrote in my Blog. The last post dates back to the 4th of July 2017. I did not feel the need to do so. Today I do. My f...

While Americans celebrate Independence Day, my 4th of July commemorates the first Review of my first CD "Mulheres" by Alison Bentley for the LondonJazz News ...

..."If I go it will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double, so come on and let me know, Should I stay or should I go!!!" (The Clash, 1982) This song ha...

Today is my husband's graduation's day as a classical double bass player. The accomplishment of a dream that Dinko cherished and pursued for the last 4 years...

Rainy grey windy days like today can be spent cuddling, sitting in front of the TV wasting life, or sleeping, which I often do like any of us, I guess...! Bu...

Is there anything not to love about Jobim's music? He's been present in the most important moments of my life! I grew up listening to Jobim in Brazil and he'...

4 years ago today I was having one of the most joyful days of my life: the launch of my 2nd CD "MENESCANTANDO - A Tribute to Roberto Menescal". "Menescantand...

In return to the eternal question "What is Art?", google just gave me a phenomenal number of 1,440,000,000 results in 0.93 seconds!!!! Then out of curiosity,...

Bossa Nova would not have been entirely what it was without Nara Leão, known as "the Muse" of this movement. Nelson Motta called her "the most intelligent vo...

Yesterday I started writing a post on tributes & heroes inspired by 3 artists whom I greatly admire for their qualities as human beings and as musicians: Rob...

Tonight there was a heavy storm in Skopje. The lightening, thunder and wind were pretty scary...! Best antidote to fear? Thinking of beauty, music, and inevi...

Voices have colors; so do photographs even when they are in black & white! Music can be blue, joyful, shiny or shady, and it can all be captured by photograp...