Renaissance Man: Samba for the New Year

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Samba for the New Year

Vinicius De Moraes - a creative bad boy/poet with all the qualities we want from such a figure: eloquent, romantic, long dead but not forgotten.

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The key to education is the experience of beauty. Friedrich Schiller
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