Afro:Baile is pleased to announce: 
We have joined the promotional team at the always amazing Scottsdale Center of Performing Arts to help get the word out for an amazing evening of Brazilian Dance and Culture! DANCE BRAZIL is one of the most sought after Dance companies and theater performance pieces to hit the stage in years! 

Here's what the NY Times had to say - “… DanceBrazil rolled through town with its crowd-pleasing style of high-octane, high-flying, pelvis-swiveling choreography. And let’s not forget the revealing costumes: the phrase “six-pack abs” doesn’t begin to do these folks justice. –The New York Times 

About DANCE BRAZIL:
Under the direction of Jelon Vieira, New York-based DanceBrazil has thrilled audiences around the globe with its dazzling artistry and unique fusion of Afro-Brazilian movement, dance and Capoeira, the daring martial-arts dance that evolved in colonial Brazil as a means of fighting enslavement. 

The limited engagement is set for only 2 performances here in the valley. Thursday April 26th and Friday April 27th. To get your tickets and more info please visit the Scottsdale Center Of the Arts Box Office at:

GET TICKETS HERE: http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/event.php?id=773 

Micheline Cardoso e Martinho da Vila na TV Garagem do Faustão.

Martinho da Vila relembra parceria com garagista Micheline Cardoso.
Cantora foi backing vocal do músico e hoje faz sucesso até na Europa

O cantor Martinho da Vila aproveitou uma pausa na gravação de seu novo disco para apresentar uma cantora que promete agitar as rádios de todo o Brasil. O nome dela é Micheline Cardoso, uma carioca cheia de suingue que conquista cada vez mais fãs no Brasil e no mundo. Isso mesmo! A cantora faz sucesso na Europa e no Canadá.

Micheline contou que conheceu Martinho quando participou, como backing vocal, do álbum "Do Brasil e do Mundo", que o sambista gravou em 2007. "Eu pensava que ela era só mais uma vocalista, uma coisa meio bossa nova. Mas quando ouvi seu disco, fiquei apaixonado", declarou Martinho.

A cantora já gravou quatro álbuns e participou de discos e shows de personalidades da música como Tim Maia, Geraldo Azevedo, Elba Ramalho, Nando Reis, Bebeto e Zé Ramalho. Ela também venceu a Parada da Garagem no dia 9/03, conquistando uma legião de fãs que somaram 59% dos votos a favor do clipe da música "Made in Brasil".

It’s been a long time coming, with plenty to brag about along the way; but Gustavo Dantas, one of our busiest GMA members, has now made his longtime dream come true: After 12 years at world-renowned professional MMA stable Arizona Combat Sports, he is finally teaching at a location exclusively for Jiu-Jitsu. And the best part: it’s all his! 

“I focused a lot on building champions, which I love doing and will continue to do,” Dantas tells GRACIEMAG.com—the attendance sheet for his gentle-art class including the likes of TUF 8 champion Ryan Bader, TUF 7 runner-up CB Dollaway, UFC middleweight contender Aaron Simpson, former WEC lightweight champion Jamie Varner, and competition-Jiu-Jitsu medaling monsters Steve Rosenberg, Kristina Barlaan and the Broadnax twins, Christian and Christopher.

“But I want more,” he explains; “I want to help people change their lives through Jiu-Jitsu the same way it did for me. … It doesn’t matter if their goals are sports related or not; they have to go after their goals, and martial arts can help you to develop the discipline, perseverance, and dedication that you need to achieve anything you want.”

The leader of the US wing of MMA-heavy team Nova União and vice president of the Arizona State Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (AZBJJF), Dantas has been long been involved in both mixed martial arts and the gentle art. And though his tenure at Arizona Combat Sports did bear fruit in the purely Jiu-Jitsu department—besides his team having produced 20 World Championship medalists and regularly placing at top spot in the state of Arizona, his Arizona International Open, Arizona State Championship and Southwest Classic tournaments are major destinations for competitors from without the state—, he feels his MMA obligations have been steering him off course:

From left, ex-UFC fighter Thales Leites, Dantas and Nova União team leader André Pederneiras

“The reason why I came to the United States was to teach Jiu-Jitsu for a living. I really like MMA,” begins the Rio de Janeiro native, “so when my instructor André Pederneiras needs any help with fights in the US, I meet up with him and do what I can to help out. But I love Jiu-Jitsu, and that is what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life!” painting a more detailed picture of what led to the new Tempe, Arizona academy on 1848 E. University Dr.

Now fully functional and operating since the 5th of March, GD Jiu-Jitsu Academy is an ample, 4500-square foot facility complete with a shop, lounge and children’s play area, men and women’s restrooms with showers, changing stalls, private room for introductory and private lessons, and a 1600-square foot mat area with a 46″ LED flat-screen TV. “I’d been promising my students that I was working on a better and more efficient way to share tournament footage with them. I used to bring my little laptop to class. … But now I have this large flat-screen. … When I show my students a high-level, world class competitor landing the techniques I am teaching on another high-level, world class competitor, I’m showing them that not only are the best in the world able to use those techniques; I’m showing them that they can can use those techniques and have great success with them,” he says in justifying the investment.

And with all investments come risks. But from Dantas’s own words, it would seem that the very risk he is taking in opening the academy is itself one of the lessons he will be teaching there: “I read once that dreams take time, patience, sustained effort and a willingness to fail, if they are ever to be anything more than dreams. And that is what I try to instill in my students.

For further information on the new Nova União/GD Jiu-Jitsu facilities in Tempe, Arizona, visit www.gdjiujitsu.com.

Check out some photos of the new facilities:  http://www.graciemag.com/en/2012/03/new-nova-uniao-academy-in-arizona-a-dream-come-true/ 

FREE DOWNLOAD TUESDAY! 
We have selected 6 songs from our catalog for you to download free! Bi-Weekly we will be offering new singles, albums, giveaways and more! We want to give back to all the fans around the world! 

The voice of reason comes in all ages, races, and places around the world. But only one voice of reason and hope and change can mend the soul, give life color and passion. That voice is Bruna Melina’s. The 20-something has been singing and writing lyrics since she was a child. The redhead green-eyed beauty from Resende, Rio de Janeiro, represents a new generation of singers who bring not only her own passion but the passion from the city where she is from, her “wonderful city”. Her sound and style can be described as funky, soulful hip-hop but rhythmically driven by her roots in Brazilian samba, bossa and MPB. Her ability to sing of hope and love and life only gives depth to the light that shines bright in her eyes. Bruna has been taking her voice of reason to clubs, festivals and now into the studio to complete her debut release, coming on Afro:Baile May 2012! 

Link: http://brazilvital.oitoronto.ca/en/2012/03/07/dj-miguel%E2%80%99s-vital-discoveries/#more-1565

Nearly 6 months since her debut album,. Cascadura Samba was released on Afro:Baile Records. Micheline Cardoso's album is going strong! We are overwhelmed with excitement for her and career! Thanks in large to her growing fanbase, Micheline has rose to the top once again! Reverbnation just posted there charts, and Micheline ranks top 3!!! Made in Brazil is her hit single thats been storming across airwaves across the USA, Europe and Brazil! 2012 is look ever so promising for her!! 

We just love Micheline Cardoso! The Cascadura Samba Singer embarked on a European Tour and then headed back to Brazil for a String of Dates in Rio, Bahia, Belo Horizonte and more! Take a look at the passion caught in her amazing live shows! Then go pick up her album, Cascadura Samba! available now in our Shop! 

NEW BRAZILIAN BEAT ABOUT TO BE SOLD OUT! 
Only 19 copy's left! and that is it! Limited Edition "New Brazilian Beat" CD was released in conjunction with the 5th Annual Brazil Film Fest in Toronto, Canada this year. The CD was printed to introduce the "now sound" of Brazil and showcase some of the rising starts featured at Afro:Baile! the CD's are just about sold out! only 19 copy's left! and that is it! get'm before they are gone! 

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SÃO PAULO - A carioca Micheline Cardoso teve o privilégio de construir sua identidade musical participando de turnês de grandes compositores brasileiros, como Tim Maia, Geraldo Azevedo e Zé Ramalho.

Markos Montenegro/DivulgaçãoCantora é tocada em rádios da Europa e América do NorteSob a influência de um pai fã de Dona Ivone Lara e Darcy da Mangueira, canta desde pequena. Micheline contou em entrevista aoEstadão.com.br que começou como crooner, cantando clássicos do samba com orquestras cariocas, mas logo sentiu a necessidade de extravasar sua criatividade em canções originais.

Micheline dá preferência à internet para propagar seu trabalho, e é favorável à revolução digital que agitou a indústria da música nos últimos dez anos.

Foi através de sua página no MySpace, quando o site ainda representava o maior cartão de visitas de artistas em todo o mundo, que despertou a atenção de produtores e DJs estrangeiros.

Algumas versões e remixes de suas músicas agradaram aos ouvidos europeus, e foram determinantes no processo que culminou na divulgação de seu trabalho na América do Norte e em países como Itália, Alemanha e Áustria, onde viria a se apresentar ao vivo em diversas ocasiões.

Os shows também contaram com boa receptividade no Velho Mundo, e Micheline já programa um retorno em julho de próximo ano, época em que florescem os grandes festivais e shows abertos.

Confiante em seu talento como compositora, a cantora vem modificando a base do repertório ao vivo, apresentando cada vez mais canções autorais, a maioria delas baseada em um samba "moderno" e atualizado. De volta ao Brasil, se apresenta em São Paulo pela primeira vez no ano no dia 15 de dezembro.

Ouça abaixo Made in Brazil, faixa que abre seu quarto álbum, Cascadura Samba, lançado em 2011 e formado apenas por músicas próprias, sendo a maioria escrita e arranjada em parceria com o produtor Luiz Antonio Gomes.

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