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by Jeff
Rated: 18+ · Book · Biographical · #1399999
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#976596 added February 29, 2020 at 12:13am
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Danca Do Canguru
"The Soundtrack of Your Life | DAY 25

"Danca Do Canguru" by Aline Barros feat. Cia 3




Is a Brazilian children's song that roughly translates to "Kangaroo Dance" silly? Well, yes. But that's kind of the point. This is one of the first songs that they played for the kids in the favelas when I went on my first mission trip to Brazil with my wife. The ministry we volunteered with went into the favelas (slums) and put on day camps for the kids there; kids that, in some cases, had never been outside the few square blocks of crumbling, dilapidated urban decay they lived around. This ministry would come and set up camps for the kids where they could play music, sing, dance, do crafts, entertain the kids, play games, etc., and I don't think I've ever seen kids so happy as the ones that came streaming out of the run-down buildings to gather in the middle of an empty lot to dance like kangaroos and be silly and escape from the stresses and pressures of their daily lives for a few hours.

Fun fact, Aline Barros is also a multi-Latin Grammy Award-winning artist and has sold over a million albums around the world. While not all of them are silly kid's songs, clearly she knows how to compose catchy songs!

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