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Alex Cutler, more commonly known by his stage name, "Don Blanquito," performs one of his funk songs at a club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cutler is a popular funk artist in Rio, despite being one of the genre's only "white boys."
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A Don Blanquito sticker on Alex Cutler's speaker in his home in the Tabajaras neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Don Blanquito is Cutler's stage name, and roughly translated means "Sir White Boy" in Portugese.
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Alex Cutler, aka "Don Blanquito," walks through his neighborhood, Tabajaras, in Rio de Janeiro. Favelas like Cutler's typically house low-income residents. Cutler chooses to live there because of the sense of community that the favela brings.
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Alex Cutler's refrigerator in his home in the favela of Tabajaras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is decorated with photos of his family and girlfriend. Cutler moved from America to Rio almost ten years ago, where he is now a well-known artist in the Brazilian genre of funk.
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Alex Cutler, aka "Don Blanquito," takes a metro car on his way to perform a show in Rio de Janeiro.
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Alex Cutler sings to his girlfriend, Yasmin Leiros, at a club in Rio de Janeiro. Cutler is in a serious relationship with Leiros, and said that beautiful Brazilian women are one of the reasons he moved to Rio in the first place.
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Alex Cutler, aka "Don Blanquito," center, waits outside with his girlfriend and friends before his performance at a club in Rio de Janeiro. Cutler is in a serious relationship with his Brazilian girlfriend, Yasmin Leiros, to his right, although many of the lyrics in his songs talk about living a single life.
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