Rio born Franco Ze Carioca moved to Manchester during the early eighties where he continued his great passion for music . Having previously played the guitar in numerous bands in Brazil. Franco got together with some local musicians to form ' The Jazz Defektors ' . The band managed to create a sitr on the jazz dance scene in London regularly playing at hip club ' The Wag ' alongside a very young dj Gilles Peterson and Baz Fe Jazz .This hype and major support from ' Paul Weller ' , culminated in a record deal with major Sony / Cbs in Japan .

Paul also went on to co - produce the first album and the band continued touring heavily at established events like Glastonbury, The Royal Albert Hall alongside legendary saxophonist ' Grover Washington Jnr ' and also supporting Paul Weller and ' Ronny Wood ' from The Stones .

When this exciting journey ended Franco started a new band called ' The Brazil Project ' , achieving success with ' Samba Rio ' on Eddie Pillar's Acid Jazz label. At this point Franco then learnt the basics of sound engineering studying various courses and started making his own tracks .

After releasing a house music ep on New York's Kult Records he joined the Rainy City Music label as a producer in nineteen ninety six for the ' Galera ' Brazilian music project.

He continues this role today specialising in sounds from his native Brazil . The success of his midweekly residency ' Balanço ' has led to him working at many special Brazilian parties all over the country.

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