Two Paths Converge...in Parayzo
She had just recorded her first demo and was planning to get back to the muziek scene she had left behind. Valeria had put her career on hold in zoek of true love. All she found was heartbreak. Now she was determined to pick up where she had left things off.
At last she had found her true musical identity, going back to her roots in the straat parties of Bahia, land of colors and rhythms, in the northeast of Brazil.
He had spent most of his life traveling around the world since leaving home pagina at the age of 13. A child star, he had finally matured and was redefining his path, working on his muziek and writing about his past and his newly-found home. He longed for something he did not know where to find.
She was looking for an artist to sing two Spanish songs for her CD; he was invited and soon boarded the first flight to Salvador, where she waited.
The chemistry was strong; they knew it. door the time they left the airport they were singing the same songs that made him famous 20 years before and captured her heart. Back them he was simply Roy, the Menudo, the classic boy band that took the world door storm in the 80s; and she was another teenage fan who rushed to see her idol perform and screamed his name for hours.
After two cold beers, two acarajés (typical food of Bahia), on the famous Itapuã Beach, a true friendship was forged and Parayzo was born: a perfect blend of Latin rhythm and passion.
Now this Brazilian-Caribbean duo is ready to hit the road, creating music, creating passion.
A long lost Menudo and a Brazilian bombshell meet up in Parayzo
The new duo blends the best of Brazilian and Caribbean sounds and rythyms
On one hand, the sensuality of a Brazilian woman bearing a Gypsy name and soul: Valeria Flor Cigana (Valeria Gypsy Flower); on the other, the perfect Latin lover, born in Puerto Rico, hart-, hart of the Caribbean. She had always dreamed of blending forró, a typical Brazilian rhythm, with Flamenco guitars; he wanted to mix Portuguese and Spanish, Caribbean and Brazilian sounds. Both of them wanted to create muziek to make people dance. They met door chance and Parayzo was born. Together Roy and Valeria, Brazil and Puerto Rico, Spanish and Portuguese, Forró and Salsa.
Produced door Victor Pozas and PH Castanheira, who have worked with many Latin stars, their first album brings a mixture of rhythms and styles. Roy Stephan, better known for his stint as a Menudo, shows his songwriting skills in three of the 14 songs “Recuerdos”, “História de Amor” and “Pais do Samba e do Futebol” which describe his passions: women, Brazil and, of course, soccer.
[The album also features three songs door Miami-based Brazilian husband and wife César Lemos e Karla Aponte, who have worked with Ricky Martin, Thalia, and Robby Rosa: “Se Me Sube”, “Me Agarra e Vem” and “De Onde Sou” – the latter became a hit in Spanish performed door Thalia. Parayzo also snatched “Amor Cigano – Venga Bailar” from gypsy singer and songwriter Alexandre Flores.
To spice up the Latin mixture, the duo was heavily influenced door the culture and the muziek from the North and Northeast of Brazil, meer specifically, forró. Emerson Mozart da Bahia, Cláudio Padilha, Betinho Muniz e Dejobson Voxman da Paraíba are responsible for the other seven tracks of the album.]
Roy and Valeria
Roy Stephan
Roy Stephan Rosselló Díaz was born in Rio Piedras, Porto Rico. At 11, he enrolled in the country’s top, boven muziek school and door age 13, started his career with Menudo, one of the greatest pop phenomena of all times. He participated in several TV series and shows, such as Love Boat, The Morning Show, Solid Gold, Good Morning America, Soul Train, and appeared in all the major networks, such as CBS, NBC and Fox, in addition to several international festivals and award ceremonies, such as Tokyo muziek Festival, where he won the goud Award. In 1985, he was a presenter at the Grammys handing the award to Michael Jackson for the album “Thriller.”
Menudo holds the Guiness’ record for largest audience in a concert, 200 thousand people at Morumbi Stadium, in Sao Paulo, in 1984. Roy’s film credits include kanon Ball Run 2, with Burt Reynolds, with the theme song “Like a kanon Ball.” At age 17, he left Menudo to pursue a solo career. He spent an entire jaar touring the United States, starred a movie called ster of Jungle and was the host of Frente Jovem, a Brazilian TV show.
meer recently, through another TV toon in Brazil, he met his long-lost daughter and decided to settle in the South American country. Roy fell in love with the people, the culture, the tropical weather and the hospitality he found in Brazil, his new home.
Valéria Flor Cigana
Valéria Machado Brandão was born in Itabuna, south of Bahia, and grew up door the sea, in Ilhéus, a town made famous door one of Brazil’s greatest writers, Jorge Amado. Her father was a singer and her mother organized the town’s famous dancing parties. Since she was a little girl, Valeria sang with her dad in family get-togethers.
But dance was her true passion and it was dance that catapulted her to the stage. door chance, she was asked to be one of the backing vocals for a local band and before she knew it, she was the lead singer for “Bandamor”, a Brazilian Axé band. After a brief hiatus, she started researching Flamenco rhythms and decided to blend the sounds with her native forró and Bahia’s swing. She recorded her first demo and was looking for a male vocal to record in Spanish when she met Roy and together they are the hottest Latin duo, Parayzo.
TRACKS:
1) AMOR CIGANO - VENGA BAILAR (AMOR GITANO) (Alexandre Flores – Versão Roy Rosselló)
2) SE ME SUBE (SOBE SOBE)(Cesar Lemos/ Karla Aponte)
3) MENINO EU ARRIEI (Emerson Mozart)
4) ME AGARRA E VEM (Cesar Lemos/ Karla Aponte)
5) HISTÓRIA DE AMOR (Roy Rosselló/ Sapo)
6) SE VOCÊ QUISER (Emerson Mozart)
7) RECUERDOS (Roy Rosselló)
8) ENTRE TOQUES E CARÍCIAS (Claudio Padilha/ Roy Rosselló)
9) SÓ O AMOR (Betinho Muniz/ Claudio Padilha)
10) TOQUES E DELÍRIOS (Claudio Padilha/ Roy Rosselló) Ed. Lumi Art
11) REVANCHE (Dejobson Voxman)
12) AMO DEMAIS (Dejobson Voxman)
13) DE ONDE SOU (Cesar Lemos / Carla Aponte)
14) PAÍS DO SAMBA E DO FUTEBOL (Roy Rosselló/ Sapo/ Gui Musselli)
She had just recorded her first demo and was planning to get back to the muziek scene she had left behind. Valeria had put her career on hold in zoek of true love. All she found was heartbreak. Now she was determined to pick up where she had left things off.
At last she had found her true musical identity, going back to her roots in the straat parties of Bahia, land of colors and rhythms, in the northeast of Brazil.
He had spent most of his life traveling around the world since leaving home pagina at the age of 13. A child star, he had finally matured and was redefining his path, working on his muziek and writing about his past and his newly-found home. He longed for something he did not know where to find.
She was looking for an artist to sing two Spanish songs for her CD; he was invited and soon boarded the first flight to Salvador, where she waited.
The chemistry was strong; they knew it. door the time they left the airport they were singing the same songs that made him famous 20 years before and captured her heart. Back them he was simply Roy, the Menudo, the classic boy band that took the world door storm in the 80s; and she was another teenage fan who rushed to see her idol perform and screamed his name for hours.
After two cold beers, two acarajés (typical food of Bahia), on the famous Itapuã Beach, a true friendship was forged and Parayzo was born: a perfect blend of Latin rhythm and passion.
Now this Brazilian-Caribbean duo is ready to hit the road, creating music, creating passion.
A long lost Menudo and a Brazilian bombshell meet up in Parayzo
The new duo blends the best of Brazilian and Caribbean sounds and rythyms
On one hand, the sensuality of a Brazilian woman bearing a Gypsy name and soul: Valeria Flor Cigana (Valeria Gypsy Flower); on the other, the perfect Latin lover, born in Puerto Rico, hart-, hart of the Caribbean. She had always dreamed of blending forró, a typical Brazilian rhythm, with Flamenco guitars; he wanted to mix Portuguese and Spanish, Caribbean and Brazilian sounds. Both of them wanted to create muziek to make people dance. They met door chance and Parayzo was born. Together Roy and Valeria, Brazil and Puerto Rico, Spanish and Portuguese, Forró and Salsa.
Produced door Victor Pozas and PH Castanheira, who have worked with many Latin stars, their first album brings a mixture of rhythms and styles. Roy Stephan, better known for his stint as a Menudo, shows his songwriting skills in three of the 14 songs “Recuerdos”, “História de Amor” and “Pais do Samba e do Futebol” which describe his passions: women, Brazil and, of course, soccer.
[The album also features three songs door Miami-based Brazilian husband and wife César Lemos e Karla Aponte, who have worked with Ricky Martin, Thalia, and Robby Rosa: “Se Me Sube”, “Me Agarra e Vem” and “De Onde Sou” – the latter became a hit in Spanish performed door Thalia. Parayzo also snatched “Amor Cigano – Venga Bailar” from gypsy singer and songwriter Alexandre Flores.
To spice up the Latin mixture, the duo was heavily influenced door the culture and the muziek from the North and Northeast of Brazil, meer specifically, forró. Emerson Mozart da Bahia, Cláudio Padilha, Betinho Muniz e Dejobson Voxman da Paraíba are responsible for the other seven tracks of the album.]
Roy and Valeria
Roy Stephan
Roy Stephan Rosselló Díaz was born in Rio Piedras, Porto Rico. At 11, he enrolled in the country’s top, boven muziek school and door age 13, started his career with Menudo, one of the greatest pop phenomena of all times. He participated in several TV series and shows, such as Love Boat, The Morning Show, Solid Gold, Good Morning America, Soul Train, and appeared in all the major networks, such as CBS, NBC and Fox, in addition to several international festivals and award ceremonies, such as Tokyo muziek Festival, where he won the goud Award. In 1985, he was a presenter at the Grammys handing the award to Michael Jackson for the album “Thriller.”
Menudo holds the Guiness’ record for largest audience in a concert, 200 thousand people at Morumbi Stadium, in Sao Paulo, in 1984. Roy’s film credits include kanon Ball Run 2, with Burt Reynolds, with the theme song “Like a kanon Ball.” At age 17, he left Menudo to pursue a solo career. He spent an entire jaar touring the United States, starred a movie called ster of Jungle and was the host of Frente Jovem, a Brazilian TV show.
meer recently, through another TV toon in Brazil, he met his long-lost daughter and decided to settle in the South American country. Roy fell in love with the people, the culture, the tropical weather and the hospitality he found in Brazil, his new home.
Valéria Flor Cigana
Valéria Machado Brandão was born in Itabuna, south of Bahia, and grew up door the sea, in Ilhéus, a town made famous door one of Brazil’s greatest writers, Jorge Amado. Her father was a singer and her mother organized the town’s famous dancing parties. Since she was a little girl, Valeria sang with her dad in family get-togethers.
But dance was her true passion and it was dance that catapulted her to the stage. door chance, she was asked to be one of the backing vocals for a local band and before she knew it, she was the lead singer for “Bandamor”, a Brazilian Axé band. After a brief hiatus, she started researching Flamenco rhythms and decided to blend the sounds with her native forró and Bahia’s swing. She recorded her first demo and was looking for a male vocal to record in Spanish when she met Roy and together they are the hottest Latin duo, Parayzo.
TRACKS:
1) AMOR CIGANO - VENGA BAILAR (AMOR GITANO) (Alexandre Flores – Versão Roy Rosselló)
2) SE ME SUBE (SOBE SOBE)(Cesar Lemos/ Karla Aponte)
3) MENINO EU ARRIEI (Emerson Mozart)
4) ME AGARRA E VEM (Cesar Lemos/ Karla Aponte)
5) HISTÓRIA DE AMOR (Roy Rosselló/ Sapo)
6) SE VOCÊ QUISER (Emerson Mozart)
7) RECUERDOS (Roy Rosselló)
8) ENTRE TOQUES E CARÍCIAS (Claudio Padilha/ Roy Rosselló)
9) SÓ O AMOR (Betinho Muniz/ Claudio Padilha)
10) TOQUES E DELÍRIOS (Claudio Padilha/ Roy Rosselló) Ed. Lumi Art
11) REVANCHE (Dejobson Voxman)
12) AMO DEMAIS (Dejobson Voxman)
13) DE ONDE SOU (Cesar Lemos / Carla Aponte)
14) PAÍS DO SAMBA E DO FUTEBOL (Roy Rosselló/ Sapo/ Gui Musselli)
I've ranted about this before (in groups, on my blog, even on AC itself), and things seemed better for awhile. But now, of course, the problem is back. The de-raters!
I understand there may not be much that AC themselves can do, but it still makes me bad. I just had my first artikel showcased and I was pretty happy about that. Three hours geleden it had a 4.9 rating. I get home pagina and guess where it is... 2.0!! That's just bull!
If people are so jealous that they don't have th ability to write a decent article, and that makes them feel resorting to grade school tactics is a good idea, then they don't belong on Associated Content. If anybody knows of a de-rater, out them! Let the whole community know who these untalented, immature children are so we can lynch them ourselves!
~Tweak
I understand there may not be much that AC themselves can do, but it still makes me bad. I just had my first artikel showcased and I was pretty happy about that. Three hours geleden it had a 4.9 rating. I get home pagina and guess where it is... 2.0!! That's just bull!
If people are so jealous that they don't have th ability to write a decent article, and that makes them feel resorting to grade school tactics is a good idea, then they don't belong on Associated Content. If anybody knows of a de-rater, out them! Let the whole community know who these untalented, immature children are so we can lynch them ourselves!
~Tweak
