Buena Vista Social Club

I'm a huge theater nerd. I love going to musicals, plays and anything that broadway and off-broadway has to offer. This musical felt more like a musical than the usual musicals. If that makes sense.

In the other musicals, if you have never heard the songs before the play, the music feels like it's complementing the show. Here, it felt like the music was the main character of the show. Buena Vista Social Club, is both the name of the album and of the group that created it. Which flows and is clear during the show. They are both the music, the play and the group at the same time.

In Brazil, I didn't grow up thinking that I was Latin. I grew up thinking that I was Nordestino(Northeasterner), Pernambucano, and Brazilian. I knew that I was part of Latin America, but it was weird to feel Latin, because we were so much Brazilian.

It was after I started to get in touch with other Latin, inside Brazil and traveling to other countries, that I started to feel more Latin and more close to my hermanos. We are really much alike. On food, culture, and most of all, being warm and passionate about other people.

It's shows like this, being exposed to more Latin culture and speaking Spanish on the streets that makes the Latin in me grow even more.