Celebrating ten years since my first trip to Brazil, I decided to post on Facebook, ten YouTube music videos of significance to commemorate those ten years. Well, I got to ten and still felt some videos deserved to make the cut.
So I decided to go for a baker's dozen. I was about to add one song to the list, when I remembered an intoxicating reggae groove I heard back in the Summer of 2001 in Sao Paulo, while relaxing on my cousin's easy chair on a breezy afternoon. I know very little Portuguese, and knew even less then. All I remembered was the refrain from the chorus, "liberdade pra dentro da cabeça". During the next week, It seemed I heard the song everywhere I went. I tried several music stores in the city, and even asked my cousin and family, but no one seemed to know the song (from my explanation) nor the group who sang it. A tune lost to me forever...until today.
I decided to see what would happened if I typed the only words of the song I remembered into the YouTube search field. Well, it felt like meeting a long lost love, by accident, after an unexpected departure. Freedom for inside the head.
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