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João Gilberto - Aguarela do Brasil

“Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.” - Miles Davis 🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾 "Aquarela do Brasil" written by Ary Barroso in 1939 and known in the English-speaking world simply as "Water Colour of Brazil", is one of the most famous Brazilian songs. It is about the said country many qualities, praising their natural resources and riches of their land, celebrating their beauties, their traditions and their people. Brasil on another note, is a 1981 album by Brazilian artist João Gilberto, featuring Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia who sang this subtle and wonderful piece in accordance and in unison.   Also, "Historia de un Amor" (Spanish for "A Love Story") is a song about a man's old love written by Panamanian songwriter Carlos Eleta Almarán. It holds the world record to be the most popular song to be translated and sung across the world in various languages by various singers from

Dewy-eyed

Hits @ Astro has provided amongst others my favorite family drama when I was growing up such as Little House on The Prairie. Well done. I am happy that I can watch Mind Your Language rerun already in its Season 2 on Hits 😊 . However, it should be rated as X or at least 18+, in a way that underage persons are not allowed to watch! During those days many were not aware how outlandish the sitcom was. The girls from France and Sweden caused chaos in class vying for their teacher’s attention and the guys would be watching their shapes or vital statistics in class and often teasing them with language only adult could understand. There is religious and political tension led to infighting which is all happening in that series. Now I understand the dispute between persons from Punjab and Pakistan calling each other infidels and even from Italy and Spain where they fight on how entrench their Catholic beliefs are , China and Japan with their communism anti imperialism stance versus de

A Knock On My Head

Thank you Allah for waking me up, for the roof over my head, a bed to sleep in, food on my table and shoes on my feet. Forgive me if I ever start to complain and forget my blessings. Happy Thursday and keep our chin up! ⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤽⤼⤼⤼