Meet King Momo .
Legend suggests that King Momo was expelled from the Olympus to conveniently come and settle down in Rio, the City of Carnival and since then, the Rio Carnival only officially opens with the delivery of the key of the city to King Momo. When King Momo samba-s,
everything and everyone - sequins, feathers, flesh and all people around should also samba with him. He opens all major Carnival events including the Samba Parades.
King Momo is chosen after a heated contest , engaging a dozen of participants. Queen and 1st and 2nd princesses of the Carnival who surround him on the picture, are also chosen at that ceremony but on rather different criteria one can safely say. Because as Legend also has it, King Momo should be as big as a house and Milton Junior, who weighs in at 160 kilograms (352 pounds) and stands 1.84 meters (six feet three inches) does everything he can to be legendary. As well as having a nutritionist telling him
what to eat, he has Marco Santos, director of the prestigious Beija-Flor samba school, as his personal trainer.
King Momo doesn't just have to move well, he also has to look good, and again Junior is
taking no chances : in addition to exercise and diet, he has indulged himself with a reflexotherapy massage, some deep skin cleaning and, for his feet, a spot of podology.
It seems that this very serious preparation is working well since Milton Junior has
opened his 4th carnival this year. The rest of the year, Milton Junior is a bank manager leaving a quiet life so he can rest from his strenuous royal responsibilities of leading the crowds in five days of wild partying and frantic samba dancing and all stress induced : “ I have to be very
well prepared, I can take no chances, an ingrowing toenail could ruin my
Carnival," revealed Junior in an interview...We shiver at this thought....
everything and everyone - sequins, feathers, flesh and all people around should also samba with him. He opens all major Carnival events including the Samba Parades.
King Momo is chosen after a heated contest , engaging a dozen of participants. Queen and 1st and 2nd princesses of the Carnival who surround him on the picture, are also chosen at that ceremony but on rather different criteria one can safely say. Because as Legend also has it, King Momo should be as big as a house and Milton Junior, who weighs in at 160 kilograms (352 pounds) and stands 1.84 meters (six feet three inches) does everything he can to be legendary. As well as having a nutritionist telling him
what to eat, he has Marco Santos, director of the prestigious Beija-Flor samba school, as his personal trainer.
King Momo doesn't just have to move well, he also has to look good, and again Junior is
taking no chances : in addition to exercise and diet, he has indulged himself with a reflexotherapy massage, some deep skin cleaning and, for his feet, a spot of podology.
It seems that this very serious preparation is working well since Milton Junior has
opened his 4th carnival this year. The rest of the year, Milton Junior is a bank manager leaving a quiet life so he can rest from his strenuous royal responsibilities of leading the crowds in five days of wild partying and frantic samba dancing and all stress induced : “ I have to be very
well prepared, I can take no chances, an ingrowing toenail could ruin my
Carnival," revealed Junior in an interview...We shiver at this thought....
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