Sandy Tsukiyama Live at Adega Portuguesa Restaurant & Bar (10-21-2012)

Adega means 'wine cellar'. Venha ouvir o pato e uma canção de ganso! (Portuguese translation: Come hear the duck & goose song!) It's Adega Restaurant Owner, Trigo's DeSilva's favorite! Adega Portuguesa Restaurant & Bar is Honolulu's only place for authentic Portuguese food, and Latin music from Brazil. Every Sunday night from 7:30 pm to 10 pm, Sandy Tsukiyama and her band play some of the best Latin Jazz in the islands. We were awed with Sandy's sultry voice and rhythmic Portuguese lyrics. Here is what the Adega Portuguesa Restaurant & Bar website (http://www.adegahi.com/) has to say about Sandy:

“A Honolulu native, Sandy Tsukiyama grew up in a musical household. She discovered Spanish language and Music Theory at her alma mater, Roosevelt High School and received a BA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. At UH she continued in Spanish and began studying Brazilian Portuguese. Fascinated by bossa novas on radio jazz programs, she embarked on a quest to further investigate the music of Brazil. Her first vocal gigs were with Brazilian-inspired group, “Ohta-San’s New Thing” and the Ebbtides, in 1975. She began studying voice with Marilyn Kim and was backup singer and percussionist for Nohelani Cypriano. In 1980, recipient of a Rotary Post-Graduate Fellowship for International Understanding, she studied Brazilian folk music traditions and voice at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Escola de Música. During her three-year stay there, she became immersed in the vibrant musical culture of the city. Fortunate to perform backup for Marku Ribas and Robertinho do Recife, along with numerous, well-known artists, Sandy appeared at various venues from posh piano bars such as Chiko’s Bar, Rive Gauche, and national TV broadcasts on Rede Globo. She was house vocalist for two years in the piano bar at Restaurante Antonino in the Lagoa District, where Lisa Ono, who later became Japan’s primary bossa nova exponent, would occasionally sit in. At the “Todos os Cantos” music festival, in Curitiba, Paraná, in 1981, she was accompanied by the yet unknown, Eliane Elias. While married to percussionist Carlinhos “Pandeiro de Ouro” de Oliveira, she befriended countless household names on the Brazilian music scene”

You can also catch Sandy on her Radio Show "Brazilian Experience", every Sunday afternoon at 4 pm on KIPO Hawaii Public Radio on 89.3 FM.

Enjoy these captured golden moments. Felicidades e não pare a música! (Portuguese Translation: Cheers! & Don't Stop The Music!)

Members of Sandy Tsukiyama’s band:

Sandy Tsukiyama – vocals, percussions
Peter Factora – drums
David Yamasaki – guitar
Ernie Provencher - bass guitar

Pictures:

Video 1 – Desafinado

Video 2 – Corcovado