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I am Juan Manuel Romero, im musician, colombian and i live in Porto Alegre to for 5 years 

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Well now, I'm doing the production of my new project
 
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I do my musical works here, here in my home studio

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Algumas coisas as faço aqui, faço maquetas, logo vou no estúdio,

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Some things I do here, I do mock-ups, then I go to the studio,

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I'm looking for a synthesizer to ...

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With heat this way it's difficult

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I live here with my wife, Juliana my daughter and Cristina who help us, she is also Colombian

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We went here to Porto Alegre, because Sandra found an opportunity to do a specialty in Pediatrics

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Because in Colombia the situation for a student to be able to specialize in a career is minimal or it costs a lot of money and more in the area of medicine 

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I lived in India, lived almost a year, with a band playing cover music in a Spanish restaurant 

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The experience was very enriching, I learned a lot from the culture, the religion, the whole cultural part

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It has a lot of poverty, it is a very poor country, but it has a lot of wealth on the other side it has these two contrasts 

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In colombia we have much rhythm also African is the Cumbia, bullerengue, mapalé in the north zone

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in the center there is more music from the interior corridors, bambuco, guabuina that are played with stringed instruments

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And here I think it happens the same, inside songs with guitar

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With Andean drums

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And in the most part of the Northeast of Brazil is the black part, has this legacy that did not leave the Africans

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With the drums, and this variety of rhythms 

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the experience is hard, leave your family behind

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It's difficult to get to a country where you only came with nothing, only suitcases and something to survive for the first few months

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Get to look for work, looking for someone to open the doors and with not speaking the language well

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It's very complicated, but we're in the fight, we get it and we're in it

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I think that's just it 

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Look over there.