The family reunion on stage was an old wish. After everyone had followed their own artistic path, the Assad finally met on stage, for the first time, at the Teatro de Tábuas, in São João da Boa Vista, on Christmas 2001. There were Seu Jorge and Dona Ica alongside their children Sérgio, Odair and Badi, and the new generation: Carolina (daughter of Odair), Clarice and Rodrigo (Sérgio's children). The historic moment was recorded by filmmaker Joel Pizzini in short film Assad Suite.
The meeting was so memorable that the family was invited to tour Brazil and the United States. During the tour — which premiered at the Metropolitan Museum, in the heart of New York —, a presentation in California earned Dona Ica unforgettable recognition: the LA Times celebrated her as “the Brazilian Billie Holiday”. Your Jorge, in turn, he completed 80 years on stage, celebrating life exactly as he always wanted: surrounded by his children and his music that helped awaken each of them. Thus, the couple experienced, in front of the public, the realization of what they had he had sown throughout his life — bearing witness, with emotion, to his own legacy.
In 2005, the family reunited again, this time on European soil. In Brussels, they recorded live at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, for GHA. The presentation resulted in the CD "A Brazilian Songbook" and the "DVD A Moment of Pure Love", in addition to a documentary about the Assad Family produced by the Belgian cultural channel RTBF.
In 2011, with Seu Jorge and Dona Ica deciding not to travel anymore and Rodrigo dedicating himself to audiovisual, the family show took on a new format: the Assad Quintet — Sérgio, Odair, Badi, Clarice and Carolina — with which they performed several presentations in Brazil, Europe and the Middle East.
Performance by the Assad Quintet during Nuits de la Guitare, Patrimonio, 2012.
