Bruno Alexandre Sutter de Lima (born June 13, 1979) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, bassist, record producer, actor, humorist,

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, voice actor, and television

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and talent competition

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. He is famous for his work with

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Hermes & Renato Hermes & Renato, known as Banana Mecânica from 2010 to 2013 due to trademark issues with MTV Brasil, is a Brazilian comedy troupe formed in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro in 1999 (and based in São Paulo as of 2002) by childhood friends Marco Antô ...

, of which he was one of its founding members, remaining with them from its inception in 1999 until his departure in 2012; under the alias Detonator, he fronts the

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heavy metal projects

Massacration Massacration is a fictional American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band created by Brazilian humorists and musicians Bruno Sutter (singer), Bruno Sutter (as vocalist Detonator), Fausto Fanti (as lead guitarist Blondie Hammett), Marco Antônio A ...

and Detonator e as Musas do Metal. Throughout May 2022, Sutter also was the world champion of the video game ''

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'', with a high score of 4,637.8.

Biography

Sutter was born in

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on June 13, 1979, and began his career as an entertainer at ''

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s'' singing covers of famous songs. In 1999 he founded

alongside his friends Marco Antônio Alves,

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, Adriano Silva and Felipe Torres; known for their

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, frequently reliant on pop culture references, they amassed a strong

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throughout the late 1990s/early to mid-2000s during their tenure on

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. Sutter was famous for playing, among others, Detonator, the lead singer of

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band

, which would eventually spawn off to release their own albums and singles. When Hermes & Renato parted ways with MTV to join Record in 2010, changing their name to "Banana Mecânica", Sutter stayed with the group until 2012, when he left to re-join MTV on his own; there he would host the

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-oriented

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''Rocka Rolla'' and the satirical newscast ''

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''. When MTV Brasil went defunct in 2013, he founded alongside

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and

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the YouTube channel Amada Foca, and got his own radio talk show, ''Bem que se Kiss'', in 2014, broadcast by Kiss FM. Coinciding with his departure from Hermes & Renato, Sutter put Massacration on hold to form another musical project based around his "Detonator" persona, Detonator e as Musas do Metal; their debut album, the

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'' Metal Folclore: The Zoeira Never Ends...'', came out in 2014 and counts with guest appearances by

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as the narrator, musicians

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and

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, and voice actor Gilberto Baroli. In 2013 he published through Edições Ideal the book ''A Bíblia do Heavy Metal – O Antigo Testamento'', co-authored alongside Rafael Rosa. In 2015 he released the

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''DetonaThor'' to promote the

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video game ''

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in its Brazilian Portuguese dub. In 2017 he provided narration for another MOBA video game, '' Heavy Metal Machines''. On December 18, 2020, his second full-length release with Detonator e as Musas do Metal, the Christmas album ''Metal Metalino'', came out unannounced, featuring parodies of

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s with a heavy metal twist. The band's third studio album, ''Arraiá do Metal'', was released on June 7, 2021, this time featuring parodies of traditional ''

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'' songs. He also served as vocalist of

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The Soundtrackers, and released solo albums under his true name of Bruno Sutter, the first of which having its production

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via a successful Kickante campaign; it reached R$42,005.00, surpassing its originally intended goal of R$40,000.00. In 2016 he returned to perform with Massacration, while no longer being an official member of Hermes & Renato. In 2017, as his character of Detonator, he was a guest vocalist on the single "Metal for Demons" by

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-based one-man band Xakol; the song was described by frontman Saulo Castilho as a tribute to Massacration. In 2018 he was chosen by voice actor to perform the official Brazilian Portuguese version of ''

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''s third ending song, "Usubeni", originally by Lacco Tower, as well as the Brazilian version of

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's "Kyūkyoku no Battle", from the same anime. Also from 2018 to 2019 he was a

for Record's singing competition '' Canta Comigo'', returning to its preteen-oriented spin-off ''Canta Comigo Teen'', which premiered in 2020. On June 28, 2022, Sutter was announced as a contestant of the second season of Record's reality show ''

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''. The same year, he became top player of the

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game ''

'', obtaining a high score of 4,637.8 points, surpassing the 4,387.6 points of previous champion Christian Lee Keilback; Sutter's record would later be broken by Ulisses Patriota, with a score of 6,177.5. On January 16, 2023, he posted on

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that he was chosen as the voice of Vidaldus Taka in the Brazilian dubbing of the anime ''

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''.

Personal life

At some point in the early 2000s Sutter was married to veterinarian Adriane Cristina Sutter. From 2014 to 2019 he was engaged to actress, television presenter and digital influencer

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, twelve years his younger; they met in the mid-2000s, while shooting Hermes & Renato sketches for

, and Estephan has made countless cameos throughout the show's original 1999–2010 run. Minor controversy arose when Estephan began dating YouTuber

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soon after their engagement was terminated, making their relationship official on June 12, 2020. In an interview for podcast Inteligência Ltda. in 2021, Sutter stated that his breakup with Estephan was one of the "worst moments of iscareer". In August 2020 he began a relationship with model, singer and fellow ''Canta Comigo'' judge Talita Dias.

Discography

;

* 2005 – ''

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'' * 2009 – '' Good Blood Headbanguers'' * 2017 – '' Live Metal Espancation'' (live album) * 2024 – '' Metal Is My Life'' ;Detonator e as Musas do Metal * 2014 – '' Metal Folclore: The Zoeira Never Ends...'' * 2015 – ''DetonaThor'' (EP) * 2015 – ''Live InSana'' (live album) * 2020 – ''Metal Metalino'' * 2021 – ''Arraiá do Metal'' ;Solo * 2015 – '' Bruno Sutter'' * 2017 – ''Alive in Hell'' (live album)

Bibliography

* ''A Bíblia do Heavy Metal – O Antigo Testamento'' (Edições Ideal, 2013; co-written by Rafael Rosa)

References

External links

* *
Records of Bruno Sutter
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