Why choose Bossa Nova?

I have a lot of experience in the music field (even though the money I've made in all those years is not directly proportional to it). I have done a lot of different things ranging from playing electric bass and singing in a blues/rock band to composing a full orchestrated child's play. But, in the end (or should I say, the beggining), I decided to build an international career upon the good old bossa nova.
When I was still learning how to play the acoustic guitar, a long time ago, I was presented to this musical style. I confess I didn't like it in the beginning for it sounded too strange to my ears. I was very young then and this is my only plausible excuse. I don't know what has happened in this meantime but now simply love it. And since I love it, I began to study it more and to notice something that bothered me a lot: bossa nova was history in its very home-land.
What do I mean by that? Neither any well-known artist nor almost no young ones were playing it anymore because it turned up to be old people's music. And it's definitely not! Unlike jazz (which is older but still alive an kicking, thanks to the huge ammount of people interested in it, playing it and specially, composing it), bossa nova's fate was disapearing in time.
At some time I felt that I should, somehow, prove it wrong. The only way I could do it was recording a brand new album, with no songs from the past. To make things even harder, I chose to compose and sing them in english, not in portuguese, which is my mother language. Despite the dificulties I had in my way, the result was pretty positive.
With this CD, I tried to change my and bossa nova's presumed destinies. It may sound pretensious to a few but that's why I first chose the name Trying to fool destiny. I liked it so much that a couple of months later I decided to compose a song with the same title, in which I expressed other completely different feelings of mine.