User:Afrolatin helio

Afrolatin Helio Is an inspirational person with multi skills in the arts and entertainment industry.

Founder, CEO and Events Manager (Promoter) at We Dance Inc.

Texas aka "Afrolatin" Helio Santos was born in the city of Luanda, capital of Angola, in 1979. He moved to Portugal with his parents at 14 years of age. However, in Portugal Helio continued with his studies, a year later, he began to attend the local bars and clubs. Helio got the taste for Portuguese nights, as many other young Angolans and Palops he already had the taste for dance and music in his blood. With the passing of time and with more age, he began to visit the largest Portuguese and African dance clubs of Lisbon with his friends, sisters and often alone. Living in the South Bank and without transport Helio would go clubbing by public transport, on a round trip that would takes up to two or more hours. These adventures continued until he moved to England 2001. Arriving in England Helio began to study and make a few hours of work such as security of bars in Liverpool and surrounding areas. With time Helio began to know the Portuguese community around the Northwest, Merseyside. With a vast collection of African music, Helio began to be invited to DJ in private parties, weddings and other celebrations in Manchester, such as the independence of Angola and many others. From there, he began to organise private events in Liverpool for the Portuguese community. As he started to spend more time with the Latin community, in 2004 Helio organised the first public event in Liverpool, a mixture of Latin and African rhythms in one place (Bar Demille, Fraser ST, Liverpool). Since then, Helio began to be called Mr Latino. Happy with the nickname he decided to create a profile to share his work and thoughts with the nickname Afrolatin Helio. Being the pioneer and the first to introduce the Angolan music and lusophone at clubs in the North of England, he has invited some of the famous singers and DJs of lusophone music to act in England and the Northwest. He organised and worked with some of the well known clubs in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Wrexham. Thus continuing and with the same style, Helio created the "Texas Events Nationwide", company of events of which has an active role as the organiser of events, non-professional DJ and non-professional instructor of private dances. At the moment he only plans some events per year, because he is focused with his studies and work, but he recommends some existing organisations that organise the same kind of events, that from a certain point he was the first to introduce in Liverpool and surrounding areas.