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Olodum from Salvador, left, Batala, middle, Me in Carlinhos de Jesus dance school in Rio, right.


with cast members from the film 'Cidade de Deus'- City of God.


My favourite view from Christ's Statue, Rio!


peace, and go with God!


Myself with my favourite person in the world-
my Mrs, Pilar, at the Notting Hill Carnival, 2004,


My favourite place in the world...Copacabana beach in Rio
(sorry, no photos of me in my Speedos)!
All photos copyright DJ Juanito, John Rowlands 2006.

I have had the pleasure of working with, and seeing, some of the following people and places but first...

My favourite Samba Schools- Beija Flor de Nilopolis, Mangueira and Salgueiro!

The famous Buro Bar on Bold St. From 1997 to 2000 another fabulous Latin night viewed from the entrance on the left to the dancefloor far right!

Paraiso in London, with myself practising in the bateria for the Notting Hill Carnival, 2004

 Me DJ'ing in Un Poco Loco, left. Poco Loco, 1993, a view of the dancefloor.
Liverpool's first weekly Latin night in the old Chauffeurs club, Hope Street!

Me in Cream, left, Inner Sense in the Buro, middle,
Sierra Maestra in Hardman House Hotel on Hardman street, right.

Me, guest player with The London School of Samba, 2000, left, playing with my street band in Rio, middle, friends Ile Aye, from Salvador, right.

Cardiff Samba School, left, Monobloco in Rio, middle left, Junior from Mangueira with Monobloco, middle right, Meninos do Morumbi, right...

Me at the Rio Carnival in 2003 with Valeria Valenssa, Globo TV's Globaleza in Brazil and my personal friend Carlinhos de Jesus, Mangueira's leading dancer and the most famous choreographer in Brazil.

with Arlus Mabele, the great African Soukous guitarist and arranger

with Victor Hugo, the great Latin singer and dancer...

with famous Brazilian singer Dominghinos do Estacio

Me with Ile Aye.
All photos copyright DJ Juanito, John Rowlands 2006.

and at the Rio Carnival Samba drome!!

Eat well....

A Samba school passing!!! Look on the left at that float!!! No comparison with Notting Hill eh?

Junior, percussionist with Mangueira Samba School, helping me choose my drums at the shops!!!'

Rio city centre and it's 40 degrees! Just over 100! And people in Britain can't cope with 80! Even all the buildings are over 25 storeys high!

At my home in Rio in that heat!!!

At the Mangueira Samba School rehearsal...they start young in Rio!!

And all roads lead to my favourite place....Copacabana beach.
Oh, alright then, if you insist...a photo of me in my speedos!!!

Christ's Statue, Rio!