DIPLO

"If Rio de Janeiro is the motherland of the funk in brazil, then Santos (beach city off Sao Paulo)
must be the first cousin.
In Santos, you can`t tell a party in a "favela" from one in Rio. But then that leaves Porto Alegre, it must be the
wierd cousin in a metal band.
It the city also famous for having lots of "churasco" (barbecue) jump offs and stock in models with wierd german names.
It was the only city that was bringing funk DJs out 10 years before the telenovellas… and even home grown bands back
in the day like Comunidade Nin-Jitsu sampling 2 Live Crew… and rapping over rock guitars and tamborzao
(back then that was wierd), and some how even got on the Radio back in rio.
Dj chernobyl can play every Funkadelic song and wishes he wrote Maggot Brain.
He's a dj/remixer and can be found all over the south of Brazil doing shows and scooping his girl in the "pampa".
Chernobyl helped to raise Bonde do Role out of the dirty city of Curitiba (porto perogi) to become antichrist superstars (!) "

Diplo (american DJ and producer, www.myspace.com/diplo)