Bebel
It’s been an eventful June quite honestly. Highlights (besides my best friend coming to visit me from Miami – Erika you rock!) would be the Bebel Gilberto concert I went to on June 23rd.
One of my new year’s resolutions was to go to Brazil before the end of the year but at the moment that seems temporarily financially impossible. It’s not all that often that I can go to a Brazilian concert out here so this seemed ideal both because I had heard she was great live and because I was able to get a small but potent dose of Brazil to hold me off.
Bebel Gilberto
Bebel Gilberto
The Belly Up, where the event was held, isn’t really a large place but it was perfect for this show. As soon as Bebel came on stage her feminine sensuality pretty much flooded the room. She has incredible stage presence. It was wonderful to see a woman so comfortable in her skin. She performed both old and new stuff in English and Portuguese. The audience easily responded to her encouraging us to jump and clap in synch, which we did. And although the song “Sweet Dreams” by the Eurythmics has been butchered by a ridiculous amount of people, her cover of it, on the other hand, was smooth and divine.
After Bebel did her encore, the DJ (not sure who he was) continued playing Brazilian music. What seemed like most of the crowd poured out of the club, but once the traffic was gone I realized there was still a huge amount of people there and I swear every Brazilian in North County was on that dance floor. I’ve seen people dance Samba before but these were also dancing something that resembled a less acrobatic capoera. It was such a lively crowd. It made me want to go to Brazil even more, especially to study dance. Sigh.
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