Julius Spain, Mestrando Jay "Camara" lived in New York City where he first saw Capoeira and was introduced into Brazilian culture in the late 1970s. After traveling to Brazil numerous times in the 1980s, he decided to move to Vancouver, Canada and began training Capoeira in 1990 and became Mestre Barrão's, (founder of Grupo Axé Capoeira) first Capoeira student in North America. Mestrando Jay ”Camara” moved back to the United States to Phoenix, Arizona after many years of training with Mestre Barrão in Vancouver, Canada where he started Axé Capoeira Arizona in 1999 at Arizona State University. Over the past three decades Jay "Camara" has accompanied Mestre Barrão to Capoeira events and encounters in various countries such as Canada, U.S.A and Brazil and has also participated in many other Capoeira events in Mexico, China, Macau, New Zealand and Australia. Jay "Camara" now has Capoeira students who have starred in Hollywood movies, performed in Las Vegas shows and traveled the world for Capoeira. Today, he is the owner and manager of Axé Capoeira Academy in Phoenix, Arizona for over twenty years. Jay "Camara" also fell in love with another Brazilian Martial Arts called Brazilian Jujitsu where he received the rank of Brown Belt in 2021.
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