At its heart, the story of the Brazilian Amazon is about the 21 million people who in some way or another call it home. Everyday from December 7 until 18 - coinciding with the Copenhagen climate change summit – I will introduce you to a new person who lives in the Brazilian Amazon and whom I came across during my most recent reporting trip to the area. This is the seventh installment of ‘Faces of the Amazon.’ To read the introductory blog post about this project, click here.
Name: Milton Jorge
Age: 25
Where from: Manaus, Amazonas
Population: 1.7 million
“I used to do marketing, but for the past 4 years I have played in my band. It is called Cabo Criolo.”
“Many Brazilians have no idea about the Brazilian Amazon. Especially people from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. They think everybody from the Amazon region rides to work in a canoe and that there are spotted tigers walking around everywhere. They really think this.”
“I will give you an example. My band went to Sao Paulo to play in a big competition. There were 60 bands there, or something like this, from Sao Paulo and Rio. When we went on stage, the announcer said, ‘And now the band from the Amazon!’ All the people in the audience started laughing and chanting like Indians. That really made me mad, so all of us looked at each other and said we were going to play really well to show them how good we are. We played really good.”
Content on this website is for general information purposes only. Your comments are provided by your own free will and you take sole responsibility for any direct or indirect liability. You hereby provide us with an irrevocable, unlimited, and global license for no consideration to use, reuse, delete or publish comments, in accordance with Community Rules & Guidelines and Terms and Conditions.
![[QODLink]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2012/2/12/2012212114913931580_16.jpg "The miracle generation")
