Forro Music comes to San Francisco. At the newly opened FAVELA, I am taking a leap into something completely new and refreshing. Having a House-Music and Jazz background and growing up in a Brasilian household it was second nature to love Brasilian music. I was hooked from then on. Brasilian music is a very general statement, and believing it's all about Samba and Bossa Nova is naive. I came out of the Samba block as a child where my mother Rosa would blare it and dance all over the house barefoot with my grandmother, (along with some Julio Iglesias does-Brasil shit) and also a jazz based form of Samba called Pagode. Bossa Nova caught my ear me when I began smoking pot and understaning the love I have for Rio and all of my feelings for the Portuguese language. I was inspired by Antonio "Tom" Jobim, and later Vinicius and Baden Powell. Aside from playing deep house at underground House parties, I would enjoy my private collection of Jazz and Bossa Nova. As i got olde