Who I Am & Where I Live
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Name:
Sparrow Roberts
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City:
Salvador, Bahia
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Country:
Brazil
Current News
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What's Up?
Working on the matrix interface...
My Life & Work
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Bio:
I'm Randy Roberts. "Pardal" in Brazil, which translates to "Sparrow".
A couple of decades ago I worked in New York City rescuing royalties for composers and performers who hadn't been paid. That was my education in the dark side of the music industry. I did this for Mongo Santamaria, Paul Simon, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Jim Hall, Astrud Gilberto, Ray Barretto, Robb Royer from Bread, Philip Glass and many others.
Now I work with music in a different way (among other things I run Cana Brava Records). And from where I am it's easy to see that fabulous music is often isolated. At the same time even well-known artists can be unknown to huge swathes of humanity. Music travels, but not as well, far or widely as people suppose. Propagation has always cost money. We want to change this.
Background:
Bahia's great bay ("bahia" IS the archaic spelling for "bay") was port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout the entire period of human history. These people arrived Africans and became Bahians, and among much else they ironically created some of the most body-and-soul uplifting music ever heard. They needed it.
We believe that -- the world being what it is today -- a LOT of other people could use it as well, or they should at least have a chance to hear it and decide for themselves. But there's a conundrum in that this music -- which is Brazil's equivalent to and analogue of the delta blues and early jazz (these of course known everywhere) -- is widely unknown even here in Brazil (even here in Salvador, pelo amor de Deus!). It's non-commercial, and most of the people who make it are poor...meaning that the chances of it travelling by conventional means -- publicity costs money and wide-ranging publicity costs a lot of money -- are almost nil. So for them we built the matrix. But for the matrix to work for them, it has to work for everybody!!!
Contact Information
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Email:
sparrowroberts@gmail.com
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Telephone:
+55 71 9 9976-2049
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Whatsapp:
+55 71 9 9976-2049
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