I found out I was pregnant when Zyon
was only about 20 months old. We were in the end of the Chaos AD Tour, a long
and extremely successful tour for Sepultura. I had taken Zyon along on all the
tours. He was an exceptionally chill and well behaved child...naturally. No
problem to take the little guy on tour; the band loved him so much and joked
that he was our mascot. Two babies on the road was another story. How the heck
could I tell everyone? What would happen? I didn't know how to be a distant
manager, sitting in a office unconnected to my work!
I decided to tell Max when we were
wrapping up the world tour. We went to Brazil with the Ramones at the end of
1994, so I figured I would light the baby news bomb while we were there. Alone
in the hotel room, one afternoon, I laid the news out for Max. He was totally
shocked and immediately had the same reaction as I did...how could we make our
lives work with 2 babies? When the dust settled, we figured we would simply go
with the flow...
We came home to Phoenix and the rest of the band went to Brazil for an extended vacation. I worked on growing my little bundle and Max planted himself at the kitchen table. Roots was born in this incubation period. Roadrunner found out Max had written a record in these months and they invited Max and me to come to Amsterdam to have a meeting. Max grabbed his 4 tracks of Roots, Straighthate and other songs and we crossed the Atlantic, bundle still in the oven.
The label was concerned about the title Roots being perceived as a soul or R&B release but Max convinced them to trust him and his art, and in the end, they did. The ball was rolling. After the meeting, Max and I hopped a train to Salzburg and Vienna, Austria, to seek out Mozart's apartment and his musical roots. During this time, I asked Max if we could honor his brother and my Russian roots and name our son Igor. Max added his touch, Amadeus as the middle name.
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| Zyon and Guilia Kisser (Andreas' Daughter) |
We came home to Phoenix and the rest of the band went to Brazil for an extended vacation. I worked on growing my little bundle and Max planted himself at the kitchen table. Roots was born in this incubation period. Roadrunner found out Max had written a record in these months and they invited Max and me to come to Amsterdam to have a meeting. Max grabbed his 4 tracks of Roots, Straighthate and other songs and we crossed the Atlantic, bundle still in the oven.
The label was concerned about the title Roots being perceived as a soul or R&B release but Max convinced them to trust him and his art, and in the end, they did. The ball was rolling. After the meeting, Max and I hopped a train to Salzburg and Vienna, Austria, to seek out Mozart's apartment and his musical roots. During this time, I asked Max if we could honor his brother and my Russian roots and name our son Igor. Max added his touch, Amadeus as the middle name.
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| Mozart's Apartment |
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| Max and I in front of Mozart Monument |
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| Super Pregnant! |
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| Me, Igor, and Max |
On July 2, 1995, after a difficult delivery, Igor Amadeus Cavalera opened his eyes to his rockstar Dad and green haired Mom! He was the largest of my children at birth, weighing nearly 9 pounds! When he was born, Dana said the 7th child was the most intelligent; he had read it somewhere. He whispered to Igor that one day he would be a doctor....Dana never got to see his prophecy come true....but from the typing I hear coming from Igor's room all hours of the day, I know Dana was right about many things he said that day...
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| A gift to Igor from the Deftones |
Class dismissed....
