Will you all allow me a shameless plug for this post?<\/p>\n
I’m fortunate enough to have met a lot of very talented people and many of my good friends are musicians.\u00a0 Unfortunately, here in Brazil, it’s really tough to get gigs where bands can play their own<\/em> music.\u00a0 Most of the time, people will pay more for cover bands than anything else, unless the artist is already famous.\u00a0 But I’m a huge fan of discovering new bands\/talent\/musicians!\u00a0 This week, I’ve been hung up on my close friend and student PH<\/a>‘s CD, “Uma Saudade<\/a>.”<\/p>\n It’s funny because in our English classes, I have also talked to him about how “saudade,” is a word that’s very hard to translate from Portuguese to English because in one language it’s a noun and the other a verb.\u00a0 And that’s what the whole premise of his CD is on. Fortunately, Rachel has already covered this for us here on the Portuguese Blog: Missing You<\/a>.<\/p>\n And since it’s Friday, and we’re not going to sentir saudades da semana que passou<\/em>, how about we leave you all with some good, original Paulistano “local talent,” music?<\/p>\n How does PH use the word “Saudade,” in this song? <\/em><\/p>\n