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 “Z-man” 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

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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



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

Janita...

Francisco Abreu

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

 
In Navegante with José Barros, Vasco Sousa, Carlos Passos, Miguel Tapadas, Hugo Tapadas, Miguel Catalão, Carlos Ferreiro, António José Martins, Rui Vaz, José David, Vaiss, João Magalhães

José Manuel David                                                                Vasco Sousa


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



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

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at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 2004

 

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

 
...in Zappanoia  with Eduardo Cunha, Rui Sousa, Diogo Sottomayor, Jorge Rodrigues, Paulo Chagas, Fernando Simões,
Carlos Pereira, Sofia Borges, Toni, São Besteiros


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

 
I taught drums, percussion and rhythms to nearly 3000 students


 
And when I moved to Oslo, Norway...

my first gig there was with the Nordstrand Janitsjarkorps
 
 
Antropófagos w/ Rafael Lemos (vc, perc, guit, harm), Janko Radovanovic (guit, vc.), Are W. Thoma (bass), Célio de Carvalho (perc. vc.)
top: M.S.Innvik, Oslo    bottom: Belleville, Oslo


Rakija with Biljana Dragisic, Merete Fjelbo (vc), Irena Banjeglav (vc, vi), Ingrid Eliassen (tr), Masa Zivkovic (vi) , Janko Radovanovic and Are W. Thoma




Pausefiskene with Ole Henrik Brekke (vc, guit), Gunnar Sæbø (bass), Glenn Sætre (vc, guit), Jens Haga (accord) and Helene Lo Cascio Sætre/Maria Grude Jørgensen (vc)


Maghreb Funk with Said Rifay, Lizzie Hagen, Adil Rifay, Lahcen Khermoussi, Mostafa Bouabdilla, Nasredine Fellah, Hassan Maroine, Tim Lowerson, Jacob Young, Gerardo Orrego, Marc Bernstein




from Portugal, it's only the blues

Charlie & The Bluescats with Carlos Pereira and Fernando Sousa.
Also Alessandro Devillart, Tiago Machado, Pedro Maurício, Reinaldo Pinhão, José Canha, Pedro Gomes
 


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