As much as it is tempting to believe the adage "like father, like daughter," sometimes a person like Toshiro Ono comes along to turn the saying on its head.
Following his daughter Lisa's popular success as a home-grown bossa nova diva, the 75-year-old restaurateur has produced his first CD, which covers similar samba-beat territory.
But the resemblance ends there. "Gyo: Sutra Meets Samba" features six Nichiren-sect Buddhist monks chanting the Lotus Sutra (Hoke-kyo, or Myoho Renge-kyo) accompanied by four samba percussionists. Put it on and you might find yourself imagining that you had happened upon a hidden temple while walking in the middle of the rain forest.
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