Today we will talk a bit about Arsenal football player Gilberto Silva. Brazilian and Arsenal defensive midfielder, has a nicknames like “Parede Invisível” (The Invisible Wall), and in the Brazilian National Team ( the Seleção ), and maybe you didn't know that but he is also a passionate cavaquinho / mandolin player.
Silva loves his mandolin, that is way he's spending a lot of spare time by studying the cavaquinho, which is a 4-string small mandoline / guitar. Since he moved to the London in 2002 he started attending mandoline classes.
“I can just about manage one or two things on the mandolin. I’m advancing very slowly, but just about ok.”
He’s been doing public performances at his local pub in St. Albans. Later he switched instruments and also began studying the classical 6-string guitar.
“There is a hidden scene of Brazilian musicians in London. My mandolin teacher plays in a pub where I like to go with my sister. He plays with others on guitar, double bass, drums; it’s a mix of Brazilian music with jazz, something really nice.”
Silva is always in the mood for playing samba music with his team mates in the Brazilian National Team, between international matches.
“Ronaldinho is the one who organizes the samba singalongs behind the scenes at Brazil games. He’s the leader, right! The captain of samba ! But I’m not there yet. It’s only now that I’m getting better, because you need to practice the whole time.”
If you want to see him and his friends: Denílson Pereira Neves and Julio Baptista like they singing and playing mandolin check this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfwGyU86WQo . And one extra when he is alone http://www.invisiblewall.net/gilberto_mandolin/.
As you can see football stars are not only a great players but they have an other skills and talents like our todays star Gilberto Silva.
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