Produced by: Marquinho Brasil at MoonDog Studios, Alameda, CA Engineered by: Marquinho Brasil, Brad Belknap, Jara Queeto and Andrew Leavitt Mix & mastered by: Jim Reitzel The Carmen Milagro Band Lead vocals: Carmen Milagro Musical Director/ Writing Partner/Horn/Guitar and Background Vocals: Rich Armstrong Producer/Percussion: Marquinho Brasil Keys: Jara Queeto Guitar: Jojo Styles Bass: Ray Uribes Drums: Matt Willis Guest Vocals: Rocco Bovo THE SONG MILAGRO ~ Asi es la Vida As the lyricist I was inspired by my childhood memories of family celebrations, even during times of financial challenges or personal heartache, I was taught, that “life goes on – asi es la vida” so dust yourself off, get up enjoy the music and just keep dancing no matter what…so I try to do just that! THE MUSIC VIDEO Director Channing Kennedy and the inspiration was further developed and became the MILAGRO ~ Asi es la Vida music video you are about to see tonight. As our fearless leader & director, Channing Kennedy so eloquently put it “We want this video to resonate with people about the dance & celebration called LIFE and we want it to SCREAM San Francisco! And what else “screams” SF more than earthquakes and a diverse, eclectic and ethnic community of dancers and party goers?!” Channing was hired on the spot and was given total creative control over the project except for my one-and only-no-negotiations-will-not-budge request. I did not want this video to be reflective of all the other cookie cutter-like music videos out there but I wanted to showcase a video filled with vibrant, joyous, REAL beautiful people, family friends of all ages colors, shapes, sizes, ethnicities, lifestyles and backgrounds as diverse as in my real life. Just like my real life this was truly a FAMILY and COMMUNITY affair…without whom NONE of this would be possible! A Channing Kennedy Production in association with WAAAHOO Productions Song written by: Carmen Gonzalez, Rocco Bovo, Steven Zhu Directed: Channing Kennedy

The song is called Milagro ~ Asi es la Vida and was inspired by Narada Michael Walden in his studio while mentoring my co-authors and at the time “PB&JAMMers” who were about to go off to college in Florida and Los Angeles. When Narada asked the boys to show him what they “got” they calmly pulled out their laptop and started playing some beats for him. While I was out of the way quietly allowing the boys to have their time with our PB&JAMM “Shaman”, a new beat that I had never heard before started to play and the words just started spilling out of my mouth into our small universe. Narada stopped us all and had us play that again and he challenged me to sing louder, so naturally I did. He said “There you have it, you have a hit song right there. Go out and write it”…so we did. In two weeks we completed the demo, which I shared with Narada at dinner five days before I moved to Tokyo to perform under contract for four months. He said he liked it “it wasn’t bad” and encouraged me to keep at it. In that moment I vowed we would complete not only the track itself but a music video as well, although at the time I had no idea how I would be able to finance the project. I decided not to worry about that…for now. As the lyricist I was inspired by my childhood memories of family celebrations, even during times of financial challenges or personal heartache, I was taught, that “life goes on – asi es la vida” so dust yourself off, get up enjoy the music and just keep dancing no matter what…so I try to do just that! THE MUSIC VIDEO As our fearless leader & director, Channing Kennedy so eloquently put it “We want this video to resonate with people about the dance & celebration called LIFE and we want it to SCREAM San Francisco! And what else “screams” SF more than earthquakes and a diverse, eclectic community of dancers and party goers?!” Channing was hired on the spot and was given total creative control over the project except for my one-and only-no-negotiations-will-not-budge request. I did not want this video to be reflective of all the other cookie cutter-like music videos out there but I wanted to showcase a video filled with vibrant, joyous, REAL beautiful people, family friends of all ages colors, shapes, sizes, ethnicities, lifestyles and backgrounds as diverse as in my real life. Just like my real life this was truly a FAMILY and COMMUNITY affair…without whom NONE of this would be possible! A Channing Kennedy Production in association with WAAAHOO Productions Song written by: Carmen Gonzalez, Rocco Bovo, Steven Zhu Directed: Channing Kennedy Produced by: Marquinho Brasil at MoonDog Studios, Alameda, CA Engineered by: Marquinho Brasil, Brad Belknap, Jara Queeto and Andrew Leavitt Mix & mastered by: Jim Reitzel.

Carmen Milagro and her band plus 2 PB&Jammers play at the Ramp in SF July 2007

Carmen Milagro on Carmen Milagro's, her band, her background, her history and her hero...Al Di Meola

An original song by Gonzalez/Armstrong written as a tribute to Correta King and Dolores Huerta. Featuring: Carmen Milagro on Lead Vocals, Rich Armstrong on Trumpet, Vocals, Guitar, Percussion and Flugelhorn. Ray Uribes on Bass and Vocals, Max Goldman (15 years old) on Electric Guitar, Jara Queeto on keys. Filmed in SF, CA

A WAAAHOO Productions in conjunction with LAGO Films - Lead Vox: Carmen Milagro Guitar: James Jarret and John Wedemeyer Bass: Vic Little Percussion: Peter Anderson Director:Theresa Lagomarsino Director of Photography: Rich Casio