Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, a man whose mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs Campaign became phenomenal. As this symbol of human hope spread accross the city, police and officials ordered the Free Hugs Campaign banned. What we then witness is the true spirit of humanity come together in what can only be described as awe inspiring. Sometimes all we need is a hug...
Some of us went to the theatre to see "The winter's tale", a story by Shakespeare, played by the "Lisbon Player's" at "Estrela Hall" (I hope you understand all these informations :X), and I decided to post some photos I took! If you've seen this play (and if you want :P), give your opinion about it !
This play was a real "winter's tale" because it was so cold in that play-house... :X I was frozen!
Despite the fact that I didn't understand next to nothing of what the players have said (the English they use are not easy for me to understand :S...but as I've read some sinopsys, I could understand the story) I would like to congratulate them! They did a very good work! :)
On the photos we can find three members of "RiPaTaSiRaNa" {Sílvia, Rita and I - Raquel} and four photos (a little out of focus) of some scenes of "The winter's tale".
Since it's kinda freezing out there and the only good thing to do, besides staying at home of course, is going to the cinema...I suggest you all to go see one of the greatest movies ever... Watch the trailer, if possible watch the movie and reply (",)
Hey there! I'm here to talk about one of my hobbies - cosplay. I took the idea from André (thenamelessfive) and thought it'd be fun to show you all this!
Cosplay ("costume" and "play") is , basically, dress up. People dress up as their favorite characters (from series, movies, whatever they want) and have fun. It's an opportunity to be someone else for a day! We don't just dress up, but we role play as the character too, take photos... well, just have fun!
This activity originated in Japan, when people dressed up as their favorite "Anime" (Japanese animation) characters, and now has spread worldwide.
Where do we do this? Through the year we have cosplay photoshoots, cosplay meets, cosplay events, you name it. Next one is on tuesday 20th February, Carnival day, in Parque das Nações. Feel free to show up and take some photos. =D
Now, my cosplays. I started cosplaying in 2005, and I'm still considered a newbie. =P My first costume was Yoruichi from the Anime series Bleach.
Definitely a great experience. Me and André even made a short dramatic play (40 seconds long xD ) but there was too much noise in the audience and we had no microphones, so very few people heard us. If you feel like seeing it, go here: Our short play.
My second one was Tifa Lockhart from the movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.
My favourite one so far. It's really comfy! And I did it all by myself, sewing included. This is my old version, my new version looks like this now:
Next, I repeated the character, but a different outfit. Tifa from the videogame Final Fantasy VII.
I had no idea how to sew a dress, but I managed to make it. xD
Next one: Yoruichi again, but a different outfit.
Me and a couple of friends made a small group with a few characters from the series and won the Best Group award. =D
And finally, my last one (only a photo since I haven't had the time to do one of those pretty collages =P ). Yoruichi again.
And that's about it from me. For me, cosplay will always be special, as I've met some really great people who share the same interests. Hope you enjoyed it! If you more interested, look for cosplay in Portugal over the internet and you'll find for sure. =)
P.S - Changed the layout. I think it's nice and goes well with the texts and colors. Tell me if you don't like it though. =/
ANA SOUSA'S BRAND..... ANA SOUSA’s brand brings out women’s feminism and beauty at every moment. Her main concept for fashion is to satisfy the client’s desires, making clothing and high quality accessories with elegance, distinction, comfort and well-being. Ana Sousa’s brand has a high productive capacity, with a production unit with excellent infra-structures, logical systems and latest genaration technology. It can also count on high scale economies, as well as production, creating an immediate satisfaction of orders at sale points. It is not just one national brand, but a brand that has spread abroad. In Portugal, it was created in 1991 and was expanded under the multibrand concept. It was also in this year that the Be Woman line appeared. The Party Line was released in March 2000 and the Spanish market was chosen to receive Ana Sousa’s pilot-shop. In 2001, four new shops and a new line appeared. One at Algarve Shopping and the first franchised shop in Vila Nova de Famalicão, in April. In June, at Barcelos, the brand’s hometown and in September at Centro Comercial Colombo. The line Casual Wear was released in November. Another four shops were opened in 2002. At the Armazéns do Chiado in February, in Campera in April, at the Fórum Aveiro in May and at the Almada Fórum in September. In April 2003, Ana Sousa’s shops appeared at Forúm Montijo and Odivelas Parque and in July 2004 another one at the Outlet Alcochete. Ana Sousa also has shops in Gaia, Viana do Castelo, Viseu, Leiria, Faro, Bragança, Braga, Coimbra, Cascais, Loures, Seixal, Évora, Vila Real e Madeira. In Spain, the brand has spread to many places since 1998. Ana Sousa continued to spread her influence and entered to the Middle East market. A shop was opened in Kuwait in February 2002, and in September and October of the same year, in Al Khobar and Saudi Arabia. A shop was opened in Qatar in October 2003, and in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh in February and October 2004.
I said, I can’t talk; the iron is on. I was ironing my jade green saree, the one that Amma bought for me. I told him, I have to put the phone down. I put it down. He won’t ring again. He thinks I know his number by heart: Mount Lavinia 926979, 926979.
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I didn’t had courage to call Vijay anymore and, when they told me that Anura was coming, I didn’t spell a word.
When he arrived, he was very nervous; he was sited on the couch, waiting to see me for the first time. My mother did everything she could to pleasured him, make him comfortable and guarantee that he would take her daughter to Australia. That day would change my life forever. I couldn’t believe in what my eyes were seeing: I had imagined a rude man with aggressive forms, taking me by his arms force and not to permit me to make any choice about my own life. But I was wrong one more time.
I was in my room, waiting for Amma to call me and meet my future fiancé. I was praying because I didn’t want to marry with someone I never had seen before.
I heard Amma’s voice and, when I went into the living-room, I looked at him; my legs were shaking. He was gorgeous! My god, what a beautiful man, I thought. He starts to talk and his voice took me to paradise, so charming, so peaceful. Our conversation was short but, I could finally choose what I wanted for my life.
Two years later, here I am and Australia is just amazing. When I think about Vijay, I smile but I know now what love is and, about Anura, he was not only a rich man like my mother had told me for many times. I’m very happy today and my feelings for him are growing every day as our son.
He had continued on his way,but he kept thinking about what she had been doing there. And if it was true that she had had a row with her boyfriend, why had they had a fight? And still, there was another thing that didn’t make any sense, why was she just wearing a thin dress on a cold winter’s evening? That mysterious girl had stayed in his head all night, so, the next day, he had decided to go and find her. He had come back to the road where he had found her, but it seemed she was a ghost. No signs of that young girl. When he was about to gave up, he saw her. She had noticed he was there, but she had just smiled and had disappeared again. What was she trying to do with him? Did she want him to follow her? He had thought so and he found out he was right. He had discovered she was really a ghost, but she wanted him to help the police to find her body and her murderer.
One of my favorite films is ROMEO & JULIET. A love story; very dramatic and very emotional, where two lovers can’t be together because their parents are enemies. The film was adapted from William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet and was directed by Baz Luhrmann. In Baz Luhrmann’s film the story is set on Verona Beach and is more modern. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo and Claire Danes as Juliet, and also John Leguizamo as Juliet’s cousin Tybalt. ROMEO & JULIET tells the story of a girl,Juliet Capulet, and a guy, Romeo Montecchio, who see each other at Capulet’s party and fall in love without knowing who they are. Juliet and Romeo discover they are enemies, but they marry in secret. On that happy day everything is about to change. Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend, and Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona. Juliet’s father wanted her to marrry Paris and she makes up a plan with the priest where she pretends to be dead and then Romeo would come and take her with him. But destiny didn’t help the message to arrive to Romeo and when he has discovered she was dead he kills himself right beside her. She opened her eyes but it was too late and she dies too. I believe the characters, Tebalt and Mercutio, played a very important role for the story because their deaths separate the lovers and brings death to them. Leonardo Dicaprio is brilliant as Romeo and he makes every feeling look so real. I believe that the scene where he killed Tybalt is represented so well that I can see the anger in his eyes. Claire’s performance is fantastic throughout the film. All the Capulet and Montecchio boys have good performances. ROMEO & JULIET shows once again the work of Baz Luhrmann with love and death stories (MOULIN ROUGE). I recommend this film. It’s definitely worth seeing as it is a story which transcends time.
Hi people! :) I don't know if you know but I like to dance! I was a member of some groups and I decided to post a video recorded in one of our dance performances in a disco :P Hope you like it! But please...don't try to find me!!
TWO YEARS LATER…two lives changed by the “tic-tac” of time…Who am I now? What kind of person did I become? Why did I choose this way? Many questions come into my mind…many questions but any answer. It’s because of that that I really hate to choose! Perhaps, if I didn’t have do make choices I would be happiest; at least my mind wouldn’t be certainly invaded for so many questions.
The last time I heard his voice was two years ago, when I hung up the phone saying I couldn’t talk with him and giving a lame excuse! In that day I’ve decided to do what my mum really wanted: have a “better” life, that is, to live with Anura. For some days, maybe weeks, I really believed I would forget Vijay and have a very nice life with Anura since he had all things that every woman wants and dreams! I went to Australia with Anura Perera (six months later my mother went there too…). And now, I’m here in my house (which is in front of a beach)…without friends, with nothing to do, without Vijay, my real love…
My mother is very happy with her new life, with her new friends. I can see her every morning, walking on the beach (her doctor recommended it) and me…well, sometimes I go with her but I avoid it because every time I’m on the beach I remember Vijay, cooking delicious dishes of fish in the humble Beach Hut and always smiling…Maybe he is thinking about how I am or what I’m doing now…I miss Vijay, I muttered every day looking at the beach…Anybody could listen me. I try to hide my true feelings. Why? Well, I don’t really know, it was another choice I’ve made.
I already thought to run away and go back to my country, to my love, to my cook who always offered me all that I need: LOVE…but I made my choice and I have to live with it and suffer the consequences…the consequences of choices!...
Everything looks different here. People are strange. They look at you without seeing you, they drive in big cars and talk in a language that I cannot understand. The sun looks closer, although it doesn’t warm me up… I’ve been in this place for over two years now and I still feel like an outsider. I miss my country… I miss the life I once had… I miss me… I don’t know who I am anymore, I don’t know this big white house that I’m suppose to call Home, I don’t know this man that lies in bed with me every night. All I know is emptiness and sadness, those are the only words I’ve manage to say in this strange language. Anura is never here. I barely see him. It doesn’t bother me at all. It is a blessing, I must say! We’ve got married, just like my mother wanted to, just like it was supposed to be. No one has ever asked me if I wanted to, I have never told anyone how I was feeling. What was I supposed to say? That I was in love with Vijay? Girls like me aren’t supposed to fall in love, especially for a cook! Girls like me are educated to obey, to be good housewifes and mothers. I felt trapped, angry, desperate… A couple of days before the big marriage, I went to the beach to talk with Vijay. Before I could figured out what I was going to say to him, I was informed that he had quit his job and no one knew where he was. My heart died that moment and I couldn’t help of wonder that it was a sign that I should forget him, get married and make everybody happy! The day after the ceremony, we moved to Australia. Anura had some business to take care of and I barely had the time to say goodbye to my family and friends. Since that day I haven’t talked or saw my mother. All I know is that Anura send her a cheque every month… It is probably to pay the rental of her daughter!! That’s what I have become, that’s who I’m suppose to be… A body with no name that can appears in social events and parties, next to a stranger that some paper calls my husband! It doesn’t matter… Nothing of that matters… There’s only one thing that makes me go on, that kept me alive all this time… The day I’ve find out I was pregnant, was the worse day of my life. The day the doctor said I was already 5 months pregnant, was the scariest and happiest day of my life. It seemed that after all, I had brought something from my past life… Not only memories of Vijay, but also, a part of him! Anura doesn’t know. How could he? In his head I’m just a stupid girl that married virgin… All I had to say was that the baby was born a premature. He’s always too busy to care anyway… I don’t know if he had seen the baby’s face more then a dozen times! Victoria is 16 months now, she has my eyes but everything else is a copy of Vijay’s figure. She is my secret, my life, my memories, my country, my love… She is all that matters… I’m waiting for her to grow… I’m waiting that Anura gets bored and ask for the divorce… I’m waiting patiently, so I can start a new life… so I can get back to Sri Lanka and continue the life I’ve always wanted to live… I’m just waiting now…
In 15th December of 1955, the government decided to form the first national TV.
Portuguese television has started the primary emissions with RTP (Radiotelevisão Portuguesa) but the curtain was only raised in 4th September of 1956. The emissions were barely captured by the metropolitan Lisbon area but, three months later, it could be seen also in Porto. After that, it would be transmitting the arrived of NASA astronauts on the moon.
The second national channel knew by “RTP2”, was “born” in 25th December of 1968. Most recently, it was replaced by “Dois” in 5th January of 2004 with the support of RTP and the civil society. The objective is to defend culture and Portuguese language.
SIC (Sociedade Independente de Comunicação), the first private channel, had started to discharge the emissions about fourteen years ago, in 6th October of 1992. Property of Francisco Pinto Balsemão, his production line was especially based on show business but soon, he understands the indispensability of information programs. It was the beginning of the rating war.
The next private channel, by the name of TVI (Televisão Independente), had made the initial transmissions in 20th February of 1993. Owned by Igreja Católica, it faced some serious problems to subsist. In 2000, José Eduardo Moniz became responsible for change this situation and quickly sured the ratings podium to TVI.
Unable to go home and sleep, he came over my house just like he used to do whenever he feels excited and desesperatly needs to talk with someone. I listened to him patiently while he was telling me about the ride he had given to the young girl. Although I was happy to see him so excited about an encounter that strange, something was bothering me inside. I had the feeling that it wasn't the first time that I've had listened to that story. My head started spinning and I felt more and more confused.
Could that be?
As a journalist, I have read and heard all kind of stories but none like the one my grandmother used to tell me when I was a child. Exactly the same story that Carlo was telling me now!Coincidence? Déja-vu? I didn't know what it was, so I've decided to talk to him about an article that I've written in the university, a couple of years ago. At first, he was a little bit ceptic, so I went to my room and searched the file about the story that I've heard so many times in my childhood. As I passed him the article, Carlo started to feel nervous. While he was reading, I saw his face went paler, his hands shaking and when he turned the page to see the photograph of the young girl, I could swear he was about to faint! My friend's new crush was a dead and beautiful image, wearing a thin white dress and a coat...Exactly like the one he had given her a couple of hours ago!!
“Dirty Dancing II” is a mix of culture, politics, love and dance music. It’s a romantic drama.
Directed by Guy Ferland and written by Kate Gunzinger and Peter Sagal. It is brilliantly played by Cuban actors in the original country in 1958, mainly focused on Latin rhythm.
It starts when an American family decides to go to Cuba on business before the Revolution that takes Fidel Castro to the summit of power. As Katey (Romola Garai) arrives in Cuba, she feels drawn to participate in a dancing competition that was taking place in the hotel where she was staying with her parents. The dance class instructor is the well known Patrick Swayze (from the original “Dirty Dancing”).Her parents push her to the well-to-do social surroundings. In spite of all that, they couldn’t avoid her dates with Javier Suarez (Diego Luna), the restaurant employer. A love story begins as well as Castro’s Revolution and the American family is forced to leave Cuba. They won the competition but not the “cause”. In the end, Katey reveals that it wasn’t the last dance of their lives.
I recommend it because I’m sure that people who like music, dancing, and Latin rhythms will feel close to this story. I loved it because I can’t imagine how many people in the world have experienced something like this. I’m a “love at first sight” and a “forbidden love” fan!
Blasted Mechanism is a Portuguese alternative rock music band, known for their different music style and appearance.
Created in 1994 with the purpose of being different from every other band of the Portuguese culture, Blasted Mechanism rapidly distinguished itself for their music and too for their appearance on stage (they disguise themselves as aliens). Their music is influenced by lots of different music genres, such as rock, electronics and oriental. They too include in their music exquisite instruments, such as the bambuleco, the kalachakra, the didgiridoo and other not so used in music nowadays, such as the sitar.
The band is composed of six members: Karkov (vocals), Valdjiu (bambuleco, kalachakra), Ary (electric bass), Zymon (electric guitar, sitar, keyboards), Sinc (drums) and Winga (percussion).
Valadjiu and Karkov were the first members of Blasted Mechanism. After finding other talented artists, they started designing their outfits (which becomes a great part of the band).
“Balayashi”, their first EP, quickly becomes the most sold EP in Portugal. Their first costumes are created and they “invade” the festival stages: “Sudoeste”, “Superbock Superock”, among others.
Their first album “Plasma” is publicly and critically acclaimed. It is considered one of the most original records in Portugal, and the first single “Karkov” conquers hundreds of fans. With this, another set of costumes comes to life, the “Blastedeanos”.
After “Mix00”, “Namaste” brings the band to the Portuguese tops. Another set of costumes is created and the video from the single “Are You Ready” is considered one of the best music videos created in Portugal. Blasted Mechanism spreads through Europe, going to Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. This project becomes a MTV Best Portuguese Act nominee.
But their most acclaimed work is, without doubt, “Avatara”. This album reaches first place on the sales chart and wins the “Globo de Ouro” award, as Best Portuguese Band. They are again nominated to the MTV Best Portuguese Act. The band signs a contract with the German editor “A-Label”, which promotes them all over Europe. Both videos from this album (“Blasted Empire” and “Sun goes down”) were directed by Valdjiu, one of the members.
Blasted Mechanism has played with other known bands, such as Rage Against the Machine, Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy, among others.
(In blue, Ana Pereira who conquired the 5th place in Female European Championship 2006)
Olympic Wrestling was born in Greece and it is one of the most ancient, traditional sports practised in all world - it has been pratised 5.000 b.C., according to some archaeological objects that were found.
Actually, this sport is a sort of battle between two persons, in which the main objective is to throw down the adversary putting his/her shoulder-blades on the carpet (which are composed of mattresses) for 1 second, and respecting some rules (you can’t be violent or hurt your adversary, for instance).
Characterized by the rebelliousness and by the determination to show who are the strongest, young people (particularly, the young boys) like this kind of sport! The doctors, pedagogues, physical education teachers and so on recommend this sport because it is advantageous for our musculature - it increases and fortifies the muscles - and also for our mind - it develops it because we have to think and to be as a sharp as a needle to avoid getting “caught” by our adversary and to “catch” him. In Olympic wrestling there are also many assault and defence skills that you could learn through your Olympic Wrestling coaching.
This sport appeared in Portugal at the beginning of the 20th century (1904) but not as a sport. It appeared as a circensian art – the circus’ people invited a spectator to throw down a sort of Hercules (a man belonging to the circus) and if that spectator could do it, the circus offered him a lot of money! That “circus art” was developed and became a sport.
There are three types of Olympic Wrestling: Greek-Romanic (also known as wrestling), Olympic Free Style and Female Style – Luta Greco-Romana, Luta Livre e Luta Feminina in Portuguese, respectively. They all have the same purpose but with some differences too: if you practise wrestling you can’t make use of your legs; if you practise Free Style or Female style you can. Besides these three types of Olympic wrestling there are also the divisions into categories which are determined by the sex (female or male), the weight (category of 57kg, for example) and by the age (the beginners, juniors, seniors…).
The first National Championship of Olympic Wrestling took place in Portugalin 1905 and the winner was Ribeiro da Fonseca who belonged to Clube Naval Madeirenseand the first International Championship of Olympic Wrestling in Lisbonoccured in 1906, in which Paul Pons (a French man) came first.
In 1912, the Federação Internacional de Lutas Amadoreswas created and some years later (1925) the Federação Portuguesa de Lutas Amadoraswas also founded. It is this association that actually organizes the following events: Campeonatos Nacionais Individuais (Individual National Championships), Campeonatos Nacionais por Equipas(National Championships between teams) and Taça de Portugal (Portugal Cup). Since then, many championships and matches have occured and the Portuguese wrestlers have won several medals and important places in European and World championships of Olympic wrestling:
1972 -->Luís Grilo (57kg category) took the 9th place in the Olympic Games – the best Portuguese classification in Olympic Games until now.
1998 -->Luís Fontes (the actual Portuguese female team’s coach) took the 6th place in the European championship.
1999 -->Hugo Passos (a deaf-and-dumb man) is the vice-champion of the European championship representing the juniors’ category.
2005 -->Hugo Passos came first in Olympic wrestling for deaf people. This man is considered the best wrestler in Portugal and he is a big honour for all of the people in Portugal.
Women have also made an important contribution to this sport: Ana Pereira (cadet category) gets the 5th place in the Female European Championship in 2006!
Concerning the Clubs of Olympic wrestling it is important to say that actually, sixteen teams are in competition, being Sporting Clube de Portugal the team which has won more championships. The most recent winner of Campeonato Nacional por Equipas is Sociedade Recreativa da Baixa da Serra (located at Moita - Setúbal).
More than fifty Olympic Wrestling clubs with hundreds of wrestlers are integrated in Federação Portuguesa de Lutas Amadoras. There are also many coaches, societies, clubs, and so on spread throughout Portugal and it is because of them that this sport exists! So, many people keep on “fighting” to maintain the Olympic Wrestling alive!
There are some sites about Olympic Wrestling in Portugal which can be visited:
[I decided to do my work about Santa-Rita Pintor, because he was an important artist who wasn't on Wikipedia, but that should be!]
Guilherme Santa-Rita, or Santa-Rita Pintor, as he preferred to be called, was born in 1889, in Lisbon. In 1921, he won a scholarship and travelled to Paris to study at the Académie des Beaux-Artsand. After visiting an Italian futuristic exhibition, he started to get interested in Futurism - a modernist movement celebrating the technological and futurist era. It was inspired by the development of Cubism using the wide range of angles within a given time-frame all aimed to incorporate the dimension of time within the Picture. Then, at the age of twenty-three, Santa-Rita joined the Futuristic Movement. Two years later, he returned to Portugal. Then he participated with other Portuguese modernists, as Amadeo de Souza Cardoso and Almada Negreiros, in a modernist magazine called “Presença”, where he published some of his paintings, which he never exhibited in Portugal. Later, he would create his own magazine called “Portugal Futurista”. By that time, Santa-Rita, as well as the other modernists, was misunderstood by the Portuguese conservative society, due to his sense of innovation and creativity, since he had brought a new artistic conception from Paris. Modernists were criticized and accused of degenerating Portuguese traditional Art. His conception of Art was about the need to understand a painting: people should look at it and think about it, try to understand what they were seeing, make a personal interpretation. It was the rise of an intellectual art. Santa-Rita was considered one of the most important artists in the development of Futurism in Portugal. He had a natural need to be original. His paintings exalted the movement and were dynamic and he had an extraordinary ability to create figures and shapes. He did not only represent the objects in the paintings, he tried to pass on an emotional and philosophic interpretation of something. He used to choose long sentences for the titles of his paintings’, suggesting a sensible and personal way of interpreting his art. He was a mysterious person, that due to his premature death at the age of twenty-nine, did not have the opportunity of experimenting with new art movements. He fought against the Portuguese inferiority complex and mediocrity. He was a symbol of a new generation of artists who tried to experiment the new ways of representing Art, proclaiming their discontentment with society. Unfortunately, very little is known about his work, because he asked his family to burn all his work after he passed away. Only Cabeça (a cubist head portrait) and seven more other paintings still remain to show us the work of this talented artist.
Samuel Mira, mostly know in the world of Hip Hop as Sam the Kid, was born in 1979 in Chelas (Lisbon).
He released his first album “Entre(tanto)”, in 1999. Although he recorded this album at home, it was pretty well accepted in the Hip Hop community for being the first album with an independent edition. In 2001, he released his second album “Sobre(tudo)” where he had the chance to work and sing with many artists, such as, Filhos de um Deus menor, Regula and DJ Cruzfader. It had a huge success mainly because of the hits “Não percebes o Hip Hop” and “Realidade Urbana” and was considered one of the best albums ever in Portugal. In 2002, Sam recorded his third album. Once more, at home, helped by samples, videos, soap-operas and phone calls, he released “Beats Vol.1”, an album with only instrumental music that is a tribute to the love that his parents lived. Like the previous albums, “Beats Vol.1” turned out to be a tremendous success and also reached to an audience that didn’t know Sam’s work. Besides singing, he also helps producing and promoting new artists. He had been the “godfather” of many well-known rappers, such as, Regula, NBC and Black Mastah. In his lyrics he talks about the music industry, how the money overcomes the creativity and talent of the artist, his life, society, politics and daily conflicts. In 2006, Sam released his long-expected fourth album “Pratica(mente)” with the participations of Pac-Man (from Da Weasel), NBC, GQ, SP and Valete. This is a more mature album that reflects Sam influences, such as, DJ Premier (from GangStarr), Pete Rock and Alchemist. Sam the Kid is probably the most acclaimed and respected rapper in Portugal.
