I actually started this song idea when I was in Thailand, which is obviously thousands of miles away from the country where this genre of music originated from. I had initially intended to use this composition as the background music for a series of stories from my real-life travels around the world, and this one was specifically for a story I was going to narrate about how I unintentionally offended an important person in the Brasilian arts community, but by doing so, I actually ended up attending the biggest night of a sold out carnaval evening, and as a VIP (but that's a whole other story for another time).

What ended up happening is that I then was getting ready to leave Thailand and so I wasn't as focused on the song then, and was temporarily in Vietnam, trying to figure out where in the world would be the best fit for me at this time, until I finally decided on Brasil, but not because of the song. Either way, because I went there, and ended up meeting some very talented musicians within less than a week of my arrival in São Paulo, I met the super-talented Brasilian guitarist, Ricardo Barros, whose father was the famous Théo de Barros, who was one of the growing number of Brasilian stars during the 1960s who were making Bossa Nova a household name around the world of music, and even composed famous well-known songs in that genre like "Menino das Laranjas", which I had known for years but didn't really Ricardo's father composed that (crazy!).

Anyway, I let him hear some of my music when he invited me over to his house studio a few days after Christmas 2022, and he let me hear some of his (his chord arrangements are so advanced they boggle the mind)! I then let him hear my bossa arrangement that I had been working on, to get an authentic ear to give me some feedback and he said he really liked it! I even offered for him to record any guitar solos on it if he felt inspired and he didn't hesitate one moment and launched into it, and...voilà! A collaboration between me from Brooklyn and Ricardo from Brasil came into fruition, thus Brooklyn Bossa!

Since releasing it a few months ago, it's just been going all over the place and I keep getting feedback from people who love it, from various parts of the world and from Brasilians, themselves, which is the biggest compliment of all! So there...if you want to be the NFT owner of this special song, make your bid because the investment will be worth it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up in a TV commercial or film because I feel it has that kind of sound and charm to be in a movie score/soundtrack!