BOOGIE WOOGIE INSTRUMENTAL - MICHAEL NAVARRO BLUES BAND

This harmonica player has been in the Road since 1999. In 2000, he recorded the “Harmonica and Blues Project” CD, along with other harmonica players, produced by Sérgio Duarte and Alexandre Fontanelli. The late has already produced some of Rock and Roll, MPB and Blues big names, such as, “Golpe de Estado”, “Blues Jeans”, André Christovam among others. He has worked in the production team of Sérgio Duarte and Entidade Joe’s band as a road crew and production assistant, having had contact also with some big names of the national and international Blues scene, like Nazi & Os Irmãos do Blues, Flávio Guimarães, Mason Casey (New York), Johnny Roover(California), in the first Harmonica Players Meeting, held in Sesc Pompéia in 2001. Rick Estrin(California) in the second workshop held by Bends Harmonicas in Bar Soul live 2008. As musician, he was invited to participate in the Harmonica Festival and Blues Project in 2000 and 2001, where it was held a National Harmonica Players Meeting. Since then he has been following bands that have a classic Blues, Jazz and Rock & Roll repertory. Some of the bands are “Destilado Blues”, “Rústicos Acústicos”, “Blues Rock Edition”, ”Quarteto Elétrico”, “The Caravan”, “Banda Mentirosos” and “Eletrik Soul”. So in his professional history, we find some famous houses and clubs, like, Mr.Blues, Bourbon Street, Café Aurora, Café Piu Piu, Bar Brahma, Enfarta Madalena and Lanterna where he had the opportunity to open for the singer Vanusa in 2002. He also acted in hotels like Transamérica SP and Unique, where he made an opening Pocket Show to singer Fernanda Porto in 2005. In 2007 he started to play in Motoclubs with “Banda Mentirosos”, among them “The Naja Motoclub” “Pegasus”, and “Jacarés do Asfalto”. Nowadays he is a collaborator in the www.bibliaworldnet.com.br site, in which he writes a monthly article on Blues Harmonica and Chromatic Harmonica, doing jingles and recordings.

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