Marisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian singer, composer, instrumentalist, and producer of Brazilian popular music and samba. As of 2011, she had sold 10 million albums worldwide and has won numerous national and international awards, including four Latin Grammys, seven Brazilian MTV Video Music Awards, nine Multishow de Música Brasileira awards, 5 APCAs, and six Prêmio TIM de Música. Marisa is considered by Rolling Stone Brasil to be the second greatest singer, behind only Elis Regina. She also has two albums on the list of the 100 best albums of Brazilian music.
Skank is a Brazilian band from Belo Horizonte. Having begun in 1991, they sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums as of 2004. Initially intending to mix dancehall with traditional Brazilian styles, later the band changed its sonority to music closer to Britpop and local movement Clube da Esquina.
Titãs are a rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Though they basically play pop/alternative rock, their music has touched a number of other styles throughout their 30-year career, such as new wave, punk rock, grunge, MPB and electronic music.
Arnaldo Antunes is a Brazilian musician, writer, and composer. He was a member of the rock band Titãs, which he co-founded in 1982 and left ten years later. After 1992, he embarked on a solo career. He has published poetry and had his first book published in 1983. He has worked with Marisa Monte, Tribalistas, and Carlinhos Brown.
Tribalistas is a Brazilian musical supergroup consisting of Arnaldo Antunes (ex-Titãs), Marisa Monte and Carlinhos Brown (Timbalada). Their debut collaboration resulted in the popular album Tribalistas, released in Brazil in late 2002 by EMI and in international territories in 2003. The album attained considerable popularity despite the group never performing any song on TV or giving any radio interviews.
Titanomaquia(Titanomachia) is the seventh album released by Brazilian rock band Titãs, released in 10 July 1993. All songs are credited to the band as a whole, as it happened in the previous album, Tudo Ao Mesmo Tempo Agora. Also, it marks the first time Jack Endino worked with them, the only foreign one they ever worked with.
Paulo Roberto de Souza Miklos is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, musician and actor. He is best known for his tenure with the band Titãs, in which he was a vocalist, guitarist and occasional saxophonist, keyboardist and harmonica player from its inception in 1982 until 2016, when he left it to focus on personal projects.
Sérgio Britto ([ˈsɛxʒju ˈbritu], born Sérgio de Britto Álvares Affonso is a Brazilian musician, best known as a member of the rock band Titãs, for which he contributes with lead vocals, keyboards and, more recently, the bass guitar. He has also released three solo albums.
Nando Reis is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and one of the lead singers of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own band called Os Infernais. He has also produced a few albums, including some related to Cássia Eller, who has made several significant partnerships with him, and Marisa Monte. In 2012, Nando Reis was listed among the top ten Brazilian artists at the ECAD list of artists who earned the most from copyright in the first semester of that year. In 2016, he was at the 15th position, besides being 6th in the ranking of earnings from live performances and topped the ranking of earnings from music played in public places.
Cosmotron is the sixth studio album released by Skank in 2003.
Maquinarama is the fifth studio album released by Skank, in 2000.
O Samba Poconé is the third studio album by Skank, released in 1996. It includes the hits "Garota Nacional" plus "Tão Seu", "Poconé" and "É Uma Partida de Futebol." O Samba Poconé sold 1.8 million copies, with 800,000 in two months.
Calango is the second studio album by Brazilian band Skank, released in 1994. It contains the hits "Esmola", "É Proibido Fumar", and "Pacato Cidadão". Calango sold approximately 1.2 million copies.
MTV Ao Vivo is the first live album by Skank, recorded in Ouro Preto and released in 2001. The album sold 600,000 copies.
Skank is the self-titled debut album by Brazilian rock band Skank. Released independently in 1992 with 3,000 copies, the album sold 1,200 in 45 days and drew the attention of Sony BMG, who re-released the album on its new Chaos label. The album sold approximately 250,000 copies.
Samuel Rosa de Alvarenga is lead singer, primary composer and guitarist of Brazilian rock band Skank. He has a psychology degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
Paralamas e Titãs Juntos e Ao Vivo is a live album by Brazilian rock bands Paralamas do Sucesso and Titãs in 2008. It is the second live album recorded by both bands together, and it has been released as a DVD as well. The album is part of the bands' 25 years of career celebration, and several other shows took place in the beginning of 2008, with both bands sharing stage. Some well-known Brazilian artists made guest appearances during the show, like Andreas Kisser, Samuel Rosa, and Arnaldo Antunes. For the live performances, both bands were nominated for "Best Live Act" at the 2008 MTV Video Music Brazil awards
Estandarte is the tenth studio album released by Brazilian rock band Skank in 2008.
Multishow Ao Vivo - Skank no Mineirão is the eleventh live album released by Brazilian rock band Skank in 2010 by Sony Music in DVD and CD formats. The Concert have been recorded at Mineirão in Belo Horizonte for more than 50 thousand people. In this album, they mixed old songs, chosen by the audience in an internet polling, with new songs. The cover shows Mineirão in its inauguration in 1965.
Jardim-Pomar (Garden-Orchard) is the eighth studio album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Nando Reis and his band Os Infernais. It was recorded in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil and in Seattle, Washington, United States, with the help of producers Barrett Martin and Jack Endino. Its lyrics deal with themes such as death, faith, absence of God and passions.
