Day 55 | My Brother’s Birthday

Today is my bro’s bday. Jalane, my mom’s 3rd eldest son. Growing up, everybody told me I talked, walked, tried to be like him. I hated that. But he WAS the coolest in the family. He could talk his way outta anything and had the nicest clothes, newest Jordans, best everything… he hustled hard, sometimes […]

Day 6 | The Main Dude of the Hour

Manuel Dos Santos – The Father of Dr Kizomba aka Papa Swag. Until today I can’t get over the fact that you not here dada, so many things would be answered in a second but well life goes on and am glad that your spirit around me. Yes, he love his woman and his whisky […]

Day 72 | Family First

Woke up on another day in another city. On Sunday I got bad news about my nephew: Junior was sick at the hospital. He is first born of the next generation, the first grandson of the family, our biggest baby . Knowing that, without thinking twice, your doctor jumped on the bus and made my […]

Don’t Mess With My Students

The day has arrived. Your boy Dr Kizomba’s freedom. Passport: ✅. Let’s start our first tattoo. Lisbon, here I come, before LA, USA and St Petersburg, Russia Dr Kizomba will be back in Lisbon. But this time, not being stuck! My Lisbon people: Friday February 9, 2018 I’ll see you at Capricho Moltense. Come and […]

Dr. Kizomba | Family | Big Brother

Where do I start. This is the realist shit I ever wrote about my life. I always cry about my father and really miss him but I hate to admit that the nigga that I followed all my life is my brother Jalane. I hate it so much because he is just like me, it’s […]

Fifa 2019 | Nephew | Dr. Kizomba

Little nephew. I asked you what you wanted and you told me Fifa2019. Shit, I look at my pockets, I was like that shit gonna be expensive little nephew. But I didn’t told you, of course not. Because when I was a kid your mother aka Big Cousin made it happen. Anything I needed, even […]

Gindungo recovery

It goes like this. It took me couple days to fully recover from Gindungo and lemme tell you, not because we are organizing but because I was there at the parties and enjoying and seeing everyone enjoying, at the workshops seeing everyone enjoying, seeing what everyone is talking about after the festival, seeing all the […]

India | Sunday | Revelation

It’s time for that a reality check, that unconditional love that we getting from countries like Trinidad / Tunisia / Curacao / Mexico / and the list goes on. Now this is special: India. The folks out here, if they love you they not afraid to show and tell you and ride with you. No […]

Mãe | Mama | Follow up

Good day Mi Gente. Thank you so much for the kind comments that you put on the post of my mom. Well, the funny thing is that a neighbor saw that post, translated it – I’m talking about a neighbor in Angola – sent it to her mama and her mom walked straight up in […]

Mãe | Mama | Forgiveness

Mama I really miss you. I see everyone able to see their mama but I didn’t smell you since 2005 when I left. You came to pick me up and I run away I know that killed you am sorry but I had to mama. They where telling you that your son was lost because […]

Montreal | Bye Bye | See You Soon

“Wake up in the morning I got murder on my mind…” Good day Montreal, the weather is beautiful, the sun is shining really hard. It’s like I’m in a foreign country. Oh! Guess what? It’s summertime. Current situation : lost in the airport of YUL aka Montreal Pierre Elliot Trudeau, getting ready for my trip […]

Mozambique Cyclone Idai

Our hearts goes to Mozambique because most of the Cyclone Idai has hit destroyed and devastated this beautiful country and killed 1000 and counting and we know this is Africa and we know more than 1000 people died, come on my people. That’s the count that they estimated so that you and me can have […]