dancing (particularly salsa, cha cha, zouk & kizomba), travel, education, India/Tamil, Africa (especially Senegal, Guinea, South Africa and all of Lusophone Africa - Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, etc.), international development, 92.6 Media Tropical, food/cooking/entertaining, herbs & spices, writing, photography, yoga, ayurveda, Jyotish/astrology, nutrition, markets, Ceres juice, Nando's peri-peri sauce, sunshine, the ocean, sailing, picnics, BBQs/braais, sandalwood anything, capoeira, Paris, Dakar, Cape Town, Portuguese, happy hour, sundowners, lavender essential oil, massages, coconuts, white wine (am currently obsessed with Sancerre!)
I'd like to meet:
PARISIANS! Also salseros/salseras, vegetarians, capoeristas, writers, chefs & culinary artists, gardeners, ayurvedic practitioners and natural healers, nomads, artists, teachers and educators, tech support, Portuguese-speakers com quem eu posso falar, a piano teacher, idealists who can keep it real, realists with vision, people who can not only talk the talk but walk the walk, intelligent people in general, people with FLAVA!!!
Music:
salsa, cha cha, bolero, cumbia, rock en espanol, jazz (especially Brazilian and South African), hip hop, Indian (especially carnatic and bhangra), Arabic, rai, samba, bossa nova, zouk & zouk love, kompa, reggae, reggaeton, soca, mbalax, kizomba, semba, funana, coladera, morna, batuku, zouglou, couper decaler, prudencia, Afro-beat, kwaito, house, electronic, neo-soul
Some of my favorite artists are...
Sting, Fela, Los Van Van, Orishas, Maraca, Jose Alberto "El Canario", Fruko, Sonora Carruseles, Djavan, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben, Bebel Gilberto, Daniela Mercury, Lura, Cesaria Evora, Suzanna Lubrano, Maria de Barros, Nando da Cruz, Boy Ge Mendes, Teofilo Chantre, Philippe Monteiro, Bana, Bonga, Sara Tavares, Don Kikas, Irmaos Verdades, Ze Carlos, Paulo Flores, Ismael Lo, Africando, Daara J, Salif Keita, Mory Kante, Richard Bona, Magic System, Soum Bill, Femi Kuti, Corneille, Hugh Masekela, Mafikizolo, Brothers of Peace (B.O.P.), Mandoza, Kabelo, Brenda Fassie, Brickz, Zola, Oliver Mtukudzi, AR Rahman, Punjabi MC, S.P. Balasubramanian, Carimi, T-Vice, Tabou Combo, Nomads, Slai, Kassav, Kaysha, Sade, Fertile Ground, Thievery Corporation, Tom & Joyce, Mo' Horizons, The Roots, Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Yerba Buena, MAW/Little Louie Vega, Jazzanova, Federico Aubele, Lila Downs, Celia Cruz, Wayne Gorbea Y Su Salsa Picante, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Jill Scott, Just Us Band (Friday nights at JoJo's on U Street!), Bob Marley, Buju Banton, Beres Hammond, Stone Love, Tabla Beat Science, Nitin Sawhney, Stevie Wonder, Roy Ayers, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Omara Portuondo, Pam Bricker, The Jets, As Meninas, Cheb Mami, Cheb Khaled, Rachid Taha, Sin Miedo, Alfredo Mojica Jr., Santana, Nina Simone, Madonna, Wyclef, Santana, Los Lonely Boys, Nayas, Beady Belle, Gilles Peterson, Manu Chao, D'Angelo, Michael Jackson (his old stuff), Talib Kweli, Gabin, Alabina, Los Amigos Invisibles, Norah Jones, Craig David, India Arie
Movies:
Roja, Kanathil Muthamital, Lagaan, The Shawshank Redemption, Central Station, Calle 54, Woman on Top, Frida, Lumumba, Do The Right Thing, Boyz in the Hood, Friday, Coming to America, Daressalam, City of God, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Nayakan, Orfeu Negro, O Heroi, Crash, Na Cidade Vazia
Television:
The Cosby Show, The Golden Girls, Sex and the City, Jeopardy, The Food Network, dating shows (a guilty pleasure!), Grey's Anatomy, Les Guignols de l'info, Heroes (I love you Sendhil Ramamurthy!!!)
Books:
Thirukkural, The Alchemist, The Prophet, Midnight's Children, The Kite Runner, Monsoon Diary, The God of Small Things, So Long a Letter, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Children of the Revolution, Ordinary Resurrections, Long Walk to Freedom, In the Time of the Butterflies, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Sun Also Rises, Cry the Beloved Country, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Heroes:
My grandparents, my parents, Mohandas K. Gandhi, C.L. Rajagopalachari, Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel, Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Aung San Suu Kyi, Arundhati Roy, Che Guevara, bell hooks, all strong beautiful talented intelligent women who believe in themselves and fight for their families and communities!
