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Election 2008
NATION ELECTS FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!
I recently became an American citizen and voted for the first time.
I feel proud to be an American!

Please make a difference and have your voice heard!
OBAMA!!!!!

We had our best time ever!!!
It was hard to come back....

Thank you all for coming out last night!
It was a very fun musical night .
You were a great audience!
See you next time
Teka

We will be in Cozumel from Aug. 12th to the 21th.

Thank you all for all your support and kind e-mails.
The Gap fire is still burning but we are safe and back home. Very few structures were damaged in this fire.
Firefighters did an amazing job!
It is great to be home!!
Peace,
Teka

Dear friends,
I am asking for you positive and good thoughts for all the people who are being misplaced or are loosing their homes due to this horrific disaster wich is the Gap Fire.
My family and I are also evacuating our home.
It is a very scary experience.
Please send us all your good vibes!
Thanks,
Teka

Dear friends,
I just want to say a big thank you for everybody that made it to SOhO last Sunday!
We had a great night!
Full house and many. many magical moments.
We played many new songs, including some by Norma LaTuchie and Rique Pantoja.
The big surprise of the night was Luana.
My eleven year old daugther sang one of Norma's tunes with me and then decided to sit in for the whole night playing percussion.
I can't tell you what a joy it was for me to see her there on stage and also have my husband Paris in the audience with so many other dear friends.
I am also greatfull to be able to share the stage with such great musicians.
Thank you all, you are the best!
Peace,
Teka

I am starting the new year full of hope, dreams and energy.
Come and help me celebrate and share the gift of music with you.
When: Sunday, January 27th
Where: Soho 1221 State Street - 962-7776- www.sohosb.com
Make your dinner reservations and invite your friends! 962-7776 or (877) 548-3237

It has been a long time since I had performed at SOhO with my own group .
I am looking forward to that and hope you can reserve the date and come.
Joining me this time are some of my favorite people and musicians. They are:
Amazing composer, pianist, arranger Rique Pantoja who has performed recorded and arranged for many international and notable Jazz and Brazilian musicians such as Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Djavan, Guinga, Chico Buarque, Steps Ahead, Chet Baker to name a few.(www.riquepantoja.com).
Norma Latuchie, composer, arranger, singer and flautist who has also performed and/or recorded with some of the greatest Jazz and Brazilian musicians like Toninho Horta, Kenny Werner, Bill Frisell, Monolo Badrena, Romero Lubambo and more. She is also on the faculty of Laguna Blanca School.
Aaron Serfaty, Venezuelan drummer and percussionist, co-authored Peter Erskine's latest book Drum Set Essentials Volume 3, currently on the faculty of the University of Southern California, California Institute of the Arts, and the Los Angeles Music Academy and who has also performed with some greats such as Sergio Mendes, Arturo Sandoval, Dori Caymmi, Don Grusina nd Bill Cunliffe, among others.
Randy Tico on acoustic and electric bass, our local treasure.
I will have two special guests:
Great jazz guitarist and dear friend Alberto Negroni; visiting us from Treviso, Italy and another dear friend and one of the most talented musicians I've ever met; Ruben Martinez, the man that can play anything.
Ruben will be on percussion this time.



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We are going to Brazil for a few weeks in November. I also might be performing there with some old musicians friends.
It has been three years since I've been there and I am very happy to go back for a visit.

Live Oak concert with Chris Judge and Rebecca Troon was a lot of fun.
We had a very ecletic and responsive audience.
Thank you very much for your support.
Peace,
Teka

We had a great time and a full house @ Soho on March 4th
I was a bit sick but still enjoyed very much playing and singing jazz with Ian Bernard, James Connelly and Tom Lackner

I'll will be taking nine days off to relax and energize in Cozumel.
I'll come back full of energy
See you on April 5th.
Peace!
Teka

I am excited to tell you that my friend Alberto Negroni and I have just finished some recordings.
We just picked some tunes that we liked from my song book, went to the studio for a couple of hours and came back with some nice duet stuff.
I have been working very hard latelly, and just decided to take some time off and
relax in one of my favorite places: Cozumel.
I will be addng some pictures from there on www.myspace.com/tekanewbossa.

I WISH ALL YOUR WISHES FROM 2006 ALREADY CAME TRUE.
I WISH 2007 TO BE YOUR HAPPIEST NEW YEAR EVER!
PEACE,
TEKA

October 7th.
A benefit concert for The Sarah House (terminal aids patients)
Faturing:
Gil Apap,Teka and friends Chris Judge, Brendan Staton, and Vientos Del Sur at The Marjorie Lucke Theatre in Santa Barbara.

It has been a long time.
Hope you all had a great Summer!
We just came back from a wonderful vacation in Cozumel, Mexico.
We had a great time and I came back full of energy and new projects.
Last Sunday, September 10th, I played at Soho with Ian Bernard, a great old timer arranger and pianist. He invited me to sing some jazz standards with him, Randy Tico on bass and Tom Lackner on drums.
I have to tell you that I have not sang any jazz standards since I was at Berklee.
Anyway, I had a great time and lots of compliments.
I'm so used to have my guitar in front of me that I thought I could not sing without it. I thought I was going to have a hard time having my hands just hanging there. But you know what? I felt so confortable and enjoyed myself so much that you'll be hearing of me singing jazz again very soon.

An Evening of Acoustic Music from Brazil and Latin America.
Featuring: Teka, Gilles Apap, Chris Judge, Aaron Serfaty, Brendan Staton and The Latin American group Vientos Del Sur

Music by MikisTheodorakis
and poetry by Pablo Neuda
Featuring contralto soloist Teka.
More details latter.

Hi everybody,
This year is promissing to be a great one!
I want to let you know that I am starting to work on a new CD.
It will be a duet: two guitars, and Chris Judge and I are producing it.
I'll keep you posted

Our 2nd benefit concert for The Santa Barbara Charter School featuring virtuoso violinist Gilles Apap, hailed “THE violinist of the twenty-first century” by the late Yehudi Menuhin, Gilles Apap seems to find praise wherever he turns. He is embraced worldwide for his distinct talent of incorporating styles of music as diverse as American bluegrass and Gypsy fiddling with the standards of the classical repertoire, suggesting that Apap is of the opinion that all music is created equal.
Apap will be joined by:
Chris Judge on guitar, Brendon Staton on bass,Teka on vocals and guitar and Kevin Winard on percussion.
Please check my calendar for more details.
This one is going to be a gret one and a must!
Hope to see you there!!

I just want to let you know that Chris Judge and myself along with three more guitarists shared a concert yesterday at Marian Theatre Allan Hancock College and we had a great evening of good music to a sold out house.
It is not to often that we have the oportunity to play in such a nice hall and we had a blast.

Dear friends,
Thank you for all your support this year.
Wish you all a great new year!
Peace,
Teka

Hi evrybody!
I had a great time in Boston and New Hempshire.
I've got to visit with my sisters and some other family and see some old friends too.
I've got to play with a very good old friend and great double bass player: Jose Pienassola, flute player Fernando Brandao and drumer Renato .
The bad thing was that while in the East Coast having fun, I had a major crash in my computer and also on my PC pocket...
Guess what???
I lost a lot of my contacts and my calendar, etc..., etc...
Paris was able to recuperate a lot of my contacts but nothing from my calendar.

Please wish me luck and please learn from me:
Always do a backup on your electronic devices!
Take care,
Peace, Teka

Me and Paris are goig to be joining our friend Rebecca Troon at Live Oak Festival in June 18th. She is a great songwriter and singer and we are going to back her up on bass and guitar.
I performed there two years ago with my band and we all had a blast!
It will be great to see you there!!
It is a three day festival where you can camp, listen to great music, eat good food, the kids have lots of things to do, etc...
Check their website:www.liveoakfestival.org