And, from Paris, Livia tells me that the former tennis player Yannick Noah is the hit of the moment around there with the song Aux Arbre Citoyens, from his new CD, Charango. “It plays in the taxi, in the supermarket, in our neighbors’ houses…” she says. It’s a committed music that talks about global warming, proliferation and nuclear garbage, deforestation of the Amazon. One of the characters is a Brazilian girl that lives in the forest. The sound, kinda like Manu Chao, is really cool, check it out:

I had the opportunity of meeting Noah in a tennis event, for veterans, in 1998, in the Club Med Itaparica. The tournament counted also with Luis Mattar, Cássio Motta and a whole legion of other names, less sought-after. It was a big party and so Noah got it as well. He had taken a few friends (I guess his band at the time, or part of it) and they played every night at the pool bar, until late hours – not rare, it only ended when the sun shone and all of us would go to the beach.

Guess who won the tournament?