Career
Franco has performed on the albums of many notable jazz musicians such as McCoy Tyner, Lonnie Liston Smith, Don Pullen and Woody Shaw. In 1981 he started a samba school in New York City and a power samba group called "Pe De Boi" (a Brazilian slang term for a good musician, literally meaning "foot of the bull"). As a result, he began playing many gigs in the New York City underground scene of the 1980s with the likes of David Byrne and David Johansen among many others
Franco has also been employed by longtime friend, drummer and cinema executive Richard Baratta to work in the film industry in New New York
Franco currently resides in São Paulo Paulo, Brazil, and is said to practice music 14 hours a day.
