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Titãs Members
Titãs (, Portuguese for Titans) are a Brazilian rock band from São Paulo. Though they primarily are classified as a rock band, the band have also experimented with genres such as new wave, punk rock, ska, grunge, MPB and electronic music. They are one of the most successful rock bands in Brazil, having sold more than 6.3 million albums as of 2005 and having been covered by several well-known Brazilian artists and a couple of international singers. They were awarded a Latin Grammy in 2009 and have won the Imprensa Trophy for Best Band a record four times. Titãs is known for initially having nine members: bassist and vocalist Nando Reis, vocalists Branco Mello, Ciro Pessoa, and Arnaldo Antunes, guitarist Marcelo Fromer, vocalist and guitarist Tony Bellotto, multi instrumentalist and vocalist Paulo Miklos, drummer André Jung, and keyboardist and vocalist Sérgio Britto, with each of the members (except for Fromer, Gavin, and initially Bellotto) alternating between lead and ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branco Mello
Branco Mello (; born Claudio Corrêa de Mello Júnior on March 16, 1962) is a Brazilian musician and actor, best known as the vocalist and bassist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. He has also played small but significant roles in films. Childhood Music entered Mello's life through the cinema. Every week, his father would take him to watch musicals at Metro. The movies' soundtracks joined other influences, like Bossa Nova, or the shows promoted by his mother, Lu Brandão, a cultural producer. At his adolescence, already nicknamed ("White") by his friends, he listened to almost everything. Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Doors, Stray Cats, The Clash, João Gilberto, Raul Seixas, Tim Maia, Cartola, Zé Ketti are some of his favorite artists. He decided to play the acoustic guitar. He and Marcelo Fromer, whom he met at Hugo Sacramento school, began to make the firsts partnerships. they would later briefly course ling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |