Eduardo "Dado" Dutra Villa-Lobos (born 29 June 1965) is a Belgian-born

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ian musician, best known as the ex-guitarist of

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band

Legião Urbana Legião Urbana (Portuguese for Urban Legion) was a Brazilian rock band formed in 1982 in Brasília, Federal District (Brazil), Distrito Federal. The band primarily consisted of Renato Russo (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards), Dado Villa-Lobos ...

. Along with singer

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and drummer Marcelo Bonfá, he was one of the founding members of that band, who formed in

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in 1982.Neder, Alvaro. " Legião Urbana – Biography,

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, accessed November 7, 2007. Villa-Lobos remained with the band through all of their studio albums, until the group dissolved after the 1996 death of Russo. In 2005, he released his first solo album, ''Jardim de Cáctus'', produced by Laufer. On 30 May 2012, he attended the ''Tribute to Legião Urbana'' with Wagner Moura, where they clashed with a fan during the presentation.

Early and personal life

Villa-Lobos was born in

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, Belgium, to a Brazilian diplomat, and also lived in

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, Uruguay until 1971, when he moved to Brazil and lived in

and

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. In 1975, he went back abroad, this time to

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, France, where he spent his free time committing motorbike thefts. There, he was also diagnosed with

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after fainting at the Grévin. Villa-Lobos also lived in

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, then part of

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. He is the grandnephew of

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. In 2001, he was one of the people who first came to rescue

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after he crashed his

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plane into the ocean close to Villa-Lobos's house in Mangaratiba; he had flown there with his wife Lucy to attend Villa-Lobos's wife Fernanda's birthday party. The accident cost the movement of his legs and Lucy's life. The experience, which took place only five years after

's death, impacted Villa-Lobos deeply and he started taking psychotherapy sessions. Villa-Lobos is married to designer Fernanda and has two children: Nicolau (aged 27 in 2016), a professional

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player, and Miranda (aged 25 in 2016), a stylist.

References

External links

Dado Villa-Lobos's official website
1965 births Living people Villa-Lobos, Dado Villa-Lobos, Dado Brazilian rock musicians Musicians from Brussels {{Brazil-musician-stub