In the United States, Sérgio and Odair were welcomed by different families in Ann Arbor, in the state of Michigan, and, through For the first time, they were away from their parents. Each person experienced the challenge of communicating and adapting to their families in their own way. North Americans. Sérgio attended Pioneer High, while Odair was a student at Slauson Junior High.
At Pioneer High, music department chairman Robert Pratt invited them to perform for the students at school. As verbal communication would be difficult — since they didn't speak English — music became their way of communicating. expression. Thus, they realized how she was able to overcome any language barrier.
Afterwards, Mazo took them from Ann Arbor to New York, where they performed for the city's "Guitar Society", in a concert series organized by string factory Augustine Strings. In the audience were Rose Augustine, founder of the company; the young guitarist Manuel Barrueco, who had performed in the same series the previous month; the guitarist Alice Artz; and the impressive guitarist and singer from Amazonas Olga Coelho, who decades before had made great success in the United States.
