Going Back to our Roots

Continued from Blog 17 - Virtually Speaking...

... The Year 2000, a New Year, Decade, Century, Millennium, when washing my feet at Copacabana Beach at midnight Kissing my Husband and worrying about Y2K, that never really happened, I never anticipated so many changes the decade would bring, 9-11, Barack Obama, my son, who was diagnosed autistic at 3 years old, still so many wars and more recession.

Some great change was about to hit our music too. While I was with Paulo rehearsing we wrote many songs but when back home I would listen to a lot of Brazilian Jazz from my DJ Husband whose music choice was influencing me without my knowledge. More and more we started to notice my singing sounded more like Bebel Gilberto than Natalie Merchant, more and more people would comment on the sites we had our music on, about my "Bossa Nova Style of singing". Without noticing we started to slip into our Felix Fritz roots again.

When that natural inclination of being Brazilian came through our work we decided to leave Seven Miles High aside as an alternate work for the boys, perhaps they could look for another singer for it and invest in working on what I did best, singing Bossa Nova style on top of a Brazilian Indie mixture such as in Felix Fritz times but a bit more sophisticated with a tinge of jazzy chords not to mention technology now permitted us programming perfectly sampled sounds of drums and percussion.

And so was born LUZ, we chose our surname, Paulo and mine, because it means light in Portuguese, we are known by it and we liked the sound of it and although it excluded Tayo, by this time we were almost like siblings anyway he didn't mind.

We kept it that way for a while until non-Brazilians started giving all sorts of pronunciation to the name and we decided to give them a hand and spell it as it is pronounced in English LOOSH. As you've probably guessed there is at least another one out there that we know of, in California I think, and yes they have more hits on myspace than we do. Can somebody go visit that site and raise those hits for us, this is getting annoying. No we are not going to change name again, we've changed more times than Madonna changes clothes in her gigs, perhaps not that many, but enough is enough. Let's race it and see who gets famous first, no don't count the myspace page, that's not fair! I think even my Husband has more hits on myspace than us, does anyone visit that damn page?

Now the journey really starts for we've seen the light...

...to be continued

Pictures: 1 - Croydon Advertiser, 2 - Soter França, 3 - Paulo Nunes