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- June 9, 2009 by KK_Ferrer
- Nuno Mindelis and I are practically best friends
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Nuno Mindelis
He is not a big celebrity, but is more famous outside Brazil than here. He was elected the best blues guitarist of the year by Guitar Player. He has played with the guys of the Animals, Rolling Stones, the band Double Trouble of S. R. Vaughan and has participated in radio program with BB King. The guy is a beast playing guitar.
Well, I was a fan of him, had seen several shows where I discovered that he was a neighbor of a friend who swalk together with their dogs.
I know personally and admire a person than the music, I was already in your home, studio, in your birthday and after the shows already drink beer or coffee together with friends and with his loving wife.
Anyway ... sometimes there is a great human being behind the fame.
Yes guys
The father of a friend is big fan of the Yes band. When this guy came to Brazil, he usually go to hotel to see and talk with the guys... I was there once and could quick chat with some of these guys. In the same hotel, Jorge Benjor (brazilian musician) was alone in the bar of the hotel, well, he wants pay coffe for us!
Ayrton Senna and Bruno Senna
I live in the northern region of São Paulo, where the great F1 champion driver Ayrton Senna was born and raised. His grandmother lived on the street where I lived and sometimes he played with the children who played ball in the street, and before him to be a champion.
After many years, I was already a teenager when the family of my uncle came home for dinner, along with them a couple of friends and several children, one of them was Bruno Senna, nephew of Ayrton that today is also a driver. I cut pizza for him, surely he doesn't remember this.

Very cool for you...