MONDAY MORNING MUSIC: Celebrating Carnivals; Desde Cuba/Miami: Celia Cruz Sings "Life Is A Carnival."

YOUTUBE/ 4:37  Celia Cruz static foto as video

   Brasil is known best for its Carnaval celebrations in Rio and Salvador, Bahia...but carnivals are celebrated around the world... from Biche, Belgium to Oruro, Bolivia, Viareggio and Venice in Italy to Cologne, Germany. And, sort of, in Cuba.
  But it can also be a way of life...as Cuban great Celia Cruz sings... in a fairly recent classic... "La Vida Es Un Carnaval"/"Life is a Carnival."
  A suggestion: listen to Celia's wonderful rendition...while scrolling thru the Guardian's wonderful fotos and/or watching the Sao Paulo footage.


ALSO: 2:10 S.Paulo Carnaval Video Featuring model Larissa Riquelme:
     Riquelme (pictured) became famous for her passion...and nudity...while urging on Paraguay's national soccer team in the 2010 World Cup. She starred in Sao Paulo's Carnaval, parading in the Anhembi Sambodrome with the Unidos de Vila Maria samba school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQGtfyxRbE&feature=player_embedded#at=39

AND: 14 excellent full screen fotos of Rio's first night of the 2011 Carnaval:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/mar/07/brazil-riodejaneiro

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC: Celia Cruz : "La Negra Tiene Tumbao."

YOUTUBE/ 4:20 / a professional music video.. with crisp
quick cuts. CAUTION: contains flashes of female frontal nudity!

     Legendary singer Celia Cruz was Cuba's Grand Dame...even though she left the island in 1959 and vowed NEVER to return until communism and the Castros were acabo.
   Sadly, she never again saw her homeland before her death in 2003.
   Here's the video version of her hit... "La Negra Tiene Tumbao."

FOR BIO INFO, SEE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celia_Cruz