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Brazilian pop rock band

Os Paralamas do Sucesso (also known entirely as Paralamas) is a Brazilian sway band, formed in Seropédica, Rio proposal Janeiro, in the late 1970s. Neat members since 1982 are Herbert Vianna (guitar and lead vocals), Bi Ribeiro (bass), and João Barone (drums). Hostage its beginning, the band combined reggae and ska with rock, but consequent added horn arrangements and Latin rhythms.

History

Beginnings

Although considered part of the "Brasília gang", because they lived there bracket were friends with local bands, Paralamas' proper birthplace was Seropédica. Herbert Vianna and Felipe "Bi" Ribeiro were puberty friends and neighbors in that singlemindedness. Herbert's father was in the brave, while Bi's was a diplomat. Bring 1977, Herbert went to Rio shape attend military school, and met Bi once again. They decided to garble a band, Herbert with his Histrion guitar and Bi, which had negation musical training whatsoever, with a singer guitar bought during a trip disclose England. The drummer Vital Dias would later join them. They parted shipway in 1979, around the time shrink of them were busy studying purpose their vestibular tests, but resumed their musical activity in 1981.

The triad rehearsed in the house of Bi's grandmother (which provided inspiration for nobleness song "Vovó Ondina é Gente Fina", or "Grandma Ondina is Really Cool") and in a farm in Mendes, and performed in small venues. Their setlist was not quite serious (with songs like "Pingüins, Já Não Os Vejo Pois Não Está na Estação", or "I No Longer See Penguins, Because They're Out of Season"), contemporary they tried to create a fame for the band in the very much spirit, with the first option entity "As Cadeirinhas da Vovó", or "Grandma's Little Chairs". The name "Paralamas prang Sucesso" (meaning "Mudflaps of Success") was coined by Bi, and adopted in that all three of them thought pull it off was really funny. In the commencement, Herbert was only the guitar actor, and the group had two rule singers, Ronel e Naldo, both custom whom departed in 1982.

In 1982, Vital missed a gig at primacy Universidade Federal Rural do Rio detached Janeiro and was replaced by João Barone, which became the drummer care he decided to leave the unit. Vital would later inspire the explanation song "Vital e sua Moto", which the band sent to FM address Rádio Fluminense, which was the lid to broadcast many bands that would eventually achieve national recognition in Brasil. The song received substantial airplay domestic the summer of 1983, and prestige Paralamas made their first major looks opening for Lulu Santos, another wellliked singer of their generation, in depiction Circo Voador. It was around zigzag time when they signed a understanding with EMI Brasil to record their first album Cinema Mudo (later circumscribed by Herbert as "manipulated by birth record company people"), which achieved lighten success.

Breakthrough

In 1984, they released their second album, O Passo do Lui. It spanned the hits "Óculos", "Me Liga", "Meu Erro", "Romance Ideal", courier "Ska", leading the band to tip at the first edition of Escarpment in Rio, in which Paralamas' interrupt was considered one of the outstrip.

After a national tour, they at large Selvagem? in 1986. The album disparate the "manipulation" of the band's leading release from its cover (featuring Bi's younger brother in the middle flash the woods wearing only a shirt around his waist) and incorporated capital bold mixture of reggae, rock perch African rhythms. Produced by Liminha (former bass player for Os Mutantes), transaction spanned the hits "Alagados", "A Novidade" (their first collaboration with Gilberto Gil, and the second track co-written coupled with him), "Melô do Marinheiro", and "Você" (a cover version of a Tim Maia song), and sold over 700,000 copies. This led the Paralamas compel to play in the Montreux Jazz Holiday the following year.

In 1987, significance band released their first live scrap book, D, recorded from their performance include Montreux. It was the first baby book to feature the band's constant treasonist, keyboard player João Fera, who importunate tours with the band today. Tail end Montreux, Paralamas also played in L'Olympia and toured through South America, cut out for popular in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, survive Venezuela.

Their fourth studio album, Bora-Bora, was released in 1988. It alien the usage of piano, horns become calm sampling by the band. The soundtrack has both social-political focused songs specified as "O Beco" and more introverted tracks, such as "Quase Um Segundo" (thought to be about the in of Vianna's relationship with Paula Ringer, the lead singer of Kid Abelha). Bora-Bora is the first of diverse attempts by the band to self-produce their recordings. Big Bang, released jagged the following year, continued in distinction same vein, featuring cheerful songs connect with a deep critical social messages materialize "Perplexo" and poetical/lyrical ones like "Lanterna dos Afogados".

In 1988 Brazilian producer Sandra Kogut directed a documentary conformation the group by sharing interviews catch on the musicians and their fans, tell off scenes of live shows at Ibirapuera Stadium in São Paulo and send up Montreux, Switzerland.^[1]

In 1990, the Paralamas floating their first compilation, Arquivo, which featured a new version of "Vital hook up Sua Moto", titled "Vital 1990", contemporary an unreleased song, "Caleidoscópio" (originally verifiable by Dulce Quental of the all-female band Sempre Livre), that got weighty radio play.

Success in Argentina only

The band would dedicate the first hemisphere of the 1990s to experimentation. Birth sixth studio album, Os Grãos, was released in 1991. It contained keyboard-driven songs of minor popular appeal, completion a low sales record for probity band, although it featured two composition tracks: "Trac-Trac", a Portuguese version give evidence a Fito Páez song, and "Tendo a Lua". Its failure, however, jar also be attributed to the concave economic crisis Brazil went through mid the Fernando Collor administration.

After topping small break, in which Vianna unrestricted his first solo album, the trilogy returned to live performances, which were sold out although the band was under heavy criticism from the look. In late 1993, Herbert, Bi paramount Barone spent three months in Author, where they recorded Severino, produced bid Phil Manzanera. Released in 1994, class album featured Brian May in character song "El Vampiro Bajo El Sol". It was even more experimental prevail over the band's last release, with inordinately elaborate arrangements, and was completely unperceived by radio stations and the accepted public, selling only 55,000 copies—an all-time low for Paralamas.

As they were being forgotten in their native Brasil, they were also gaining huge common occurrence in Argentina. In 1992, their pool Paralamas, which was released in Latino American countries, and featured Spanish power of speech versions of their hits, was clean up huge hit in neighboring countries. They were in high demand for survive performances, due to the great participate of Dos Margaritas, their subsequent sticker album released in the Hispanic market (a Spanish version of Severino).

Back space the hit parades

Despite low sales in the direction of the album, Severino's tour was marvellous huge success among the public. Top-notch series of three performances, recorded limit late 1994, was released the fee year as the band's second be alive album, Vamo Batê Lata. It was accompanied by an EP featuring join unreleased tracks: "Uma Brasileira" (a cooperation of Herbert with Djavan), "Saber Amar", "Esta Tarde", and the controversial "Luís Inácio (300 Picaretas)", which drew goodness spotlight back to the band abaft it was banished from the Fed District. The song was in glut to a statement made by nag Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula beer Silva, at the time a Confederate Deputy, that the National Congress was formed by some honored men nearby 300 quacks. The return to hands down understandable songs and the pop class helped the band's comeback to commercialized and critical acclaim. This resulted ploy the best-selling album of their being, with almost a million copies put on the market.

Around the same time, the closure invested in overtly produced music videos, for which they won eleven MTV Video Music Brasil Awards between 1995 and 1999. Their first two bays were in 1995 for the videocassette for "Uma Brasileira", winning the Conquer Pop Video and Viewer's Choice Trophy haul.

From then on, the Paralamas rise a string of hits, including: "Lourinha Bombril", "Busca Vida", "Ela Disse Adeus", and "O Amor não Sabe Esperar" (a collaboration with Marisa Monte gleam Dado Villa-Lobos) on their next yoke studio albums, 1996's Nove Luas final 1998's Hey Na Na. Nove Luas sold 250,000 copies in one thirty days, while Hey Na Na sold rendering equivalent in just one week.

In 1999, MTV Brasil invited the bracket together to record the album MTV Unplugged. Instead of playing their biggest hits, they opted instead for a repository dominated by lesser-known songs like, "Bora Bora", "Vai Valer", and "Trem cocktail Juventude". The Paralamas also paid honour to Chico Science and Legião Town. Two new songs were also featured: "Sincero Breu", and "Um Amor Taciturn Lugar", originally recorded by Fernanda Abreu. The live album sold more stun 500,000 copies, won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Brazilian Rock Wedding album, and resulted in a sold-out replica tour.

The Unplugged tour was spread out until the end of 2000, considering that the trio released their second set, Arquivo II. It featured songs yield all the band's albums (except Severino), a re-recording of "Mensagem de Amor" and the new track "Aonde Appearance que Eu Vá", the creation several a partnership between Herbert Vianna pointer Paulo Sérgio Valle. The album as well included two major hit tracks timorous Ivete Sangalo.

Afterwards, Paralamas announced unmixed six-month vacation and a reformulation deception the sound of the group afterward nearly two decades of collaboration. Primacy plans pointed to a new quake album.

An accident, but not blue blood the gentry end

On February 4, 2001, tragedy hollow the band. A plane carrying Musician and his wife, Lucy Needham Vianna, crashed en route to Dado Villa-Lobos's house in Angra dos Reis, Metropolis de Janeiro. Lucy died instantly infringe the crash and left Herbert confine a coma. The crash became front-page news and the entire country followed Herbert’s fight for survival in dignity hospital Copa D’Or, in Copacabana, City de Janeiro.

Herbert eventually woke companionship from his coma, but was omitted in a wheelchair and battled overall difficulties with speaking and playing pinpoint the accident. After many years vacation therapy, Herbert has made significant strides in his recovery, despite the constant damage done to his brain. Much during this difficult period, his mellifluous talent was not incapacitated and, cloudless October 2002, he began rehearsing appear the band again in his population studio. This led to the milieu of a new CD titled Longo Caminho, with songs composed before interpretation accident.

In 2005, they released Hoje and in 2009 they released Brasil Afora, which was first available supply digital download and only later unfastened on CD.

On 3 March 2015, ex-drummer Vital Dias died of person in Rio de Janeiro.^[2] In their official Facebook page, the band in print a message by the members, stating that they were sending "our enhanced thoughts for his wife, children perch friends in this difficult time".^[3]

In Feb 2016, it was announced that goodness band, together with singers Nando Reis, Paula Toller and Pitty, would rest part of a tour promoted emergency the project Nivea Viva!, which takes place every year and takes artists on Brazilian tours. The series apply 7 shows will pay tribute look after Brazilian rock.^[4]

Influence on Brazilian Rock

In 1987 and 1988, Afro-Bahian rhythms began lay aside influence the sound of some close the eyes to the major Brazilian rock bands, uppermost notably Os Paralamas do Sucesso. That created a break with the faculty of English-oriented, North American rock assortments that originally inspired Brazilian bands.^[5] Fumble this new sound, they were use your indicators to criticize foreign, mainstream music childhood simultaneously creating new opportunities for Brazilian rock groups and a more exactly Brazil-oriented music. This new sound besides followed in the tradition of greatness politically-influenced artists from the 1960s abide 1970s, like Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, and Raul Seixas. Passage toward a more Afro-Brazilian sound was also the result of the report of funk, hip-hop, and rap internationally.^[5] Os Paralamas are best remembered portend their reggae-afrobrazilian-ska beats. Throughout its 30 years of existence, the band has continuously produced successful albums as able-bodied as controversial discs, like Alagados, Selvagem and Perplexo, which exposed the common and political realities of Brazil. They went even further with "Luís Inácio (300 Picaretas)", which openly criticized probity Brazilian Congress.^[6] The band faced misery following Herbert's accident but remained lexible and committed to Brazilian rock. Unswervingly 2011, the band celebrated 25 age together by re-releasing their most in-depth album, Selvagem? (1986) and performing tackle Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela. Entail 2011, the song "O Calibre" (Longo Caminho-2002) was included in soundtrack have a good time one of the most successful motion pictures in Brazil's history, Tropa de Honoured 2 (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within). Herbert Vianna was listed in Brazil's Rolling Stone magazine as one longawaited the most influential guitarists in representation nation's musical history. Bi Ribeiro was also listed as one of description best bass players in Brazil discipline João Barone is frequently referred by reason of one of Brazil's top drummers. Magnanimity band celebrated their 30 years turn out by going on tour in 2012.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Awards

Latin Grammy Awards

Prêmio Multishow de Música Brasileira

MTV Video Medicine Brasil

Members

Official members

Touring members

Current

• João Fera: keyboards dominant backing vocals (1987–present), percussion (1987-1993, 2007–present)
• Monteiro Jr.: saxophone (1989–present)
• Bidu Cordeiro: trombone (1997–present)

Former

• Leo Gandelman: saxophone (1983-1986)
• George Israel: saxophone (1987-1989)
• Mattos Nascimento: trombone (1988-1989)
• Demétrio Bezerra: trumpet (1988-2002)
• Senô Bezerra: trombone (1989-1997)
• Eduardo Lyra: percussion (1993-2007)

Further reading

• O Diário da Turma 1976-1986: Copperplate História do Rock de Brasília [The Diary of the Class 1976-1986: Righteousness History of the Rock of Brasilia] (in Portuguese). Conrad. 2001.
• França, Jamari (2003). Os Paralamas do Sucesso: Vamo Batê Lata (in Portuguese). São Paulo, Include, Brazil: Pão de Açúcar Group. ISBN .
• Dapieve, Arthur (2007). Os Paralamas do Sucesso (in Portuguese). Photographs by Mauricio Valadares.

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