Carlos Franco ( Kau )

Carlinhos Franco Guitarist and singer was  born in 1968 in Salvador Bahia, Brasil, he started to play Guitar at the age of 10. His singing career started  5 years later. Following the footsteps of his father, Franquito,  a former prodigious child artist in the latest ‘50s.Music was definitely in his family. In 1996 while performing solo concerts in various cities of Brasil such as São-Paulo and Salvador, Carlinhos was invited to tour through Europe. During one of his concerts in Switzerland , he played with the brazilian jazz ensemble “Amazonia” and “Ademir Candido Group” straight to the Montreux Jazz Festival and various brazilian benefit-galas performances, such as “Kinder in Brazilien” and TV appearances. 1999, the day after playing at an evening party at Phil Collin's place, Carlinhos Franco was invited by the Egyptian minister of culture to perform at the “International Song Festival in Cairo”, Egypt, interpreting songs from well-known US-composers Dan Serafini and George Nishigom