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Eduardo Falaschi
Edu Falaschi performing at Anime Friends 2016
Background information
Birth name
Eduardo Falaschi
Born
(1972-05-18) May 18, 1972 (age48) São Paulo, Brazil
Eduardo "Edu" Falaschi (born May 18, 1972) is a Brazilian singer, composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist, with 16 albums released and about 100 edited songs in 30 years of career.
A musician since he was 14 years old, Edu has joined bands like Mitrium, Venus, Symbols and the worldwide famous Angra. Currently, he is dedicated to his solo career with the new Temple of Shadows in Concert tour.
Throughout his career, he has sold more than 1 million albums, toured worldwide many times (2 times in Rock in Rio festival: 2011/2013), composed important songs such as "New Era", "Heroes of Sand", "Bleeding Heart", "Wishing Well, "Spread Your Fire", and "Angels and Demons".
Falaschi, of Italian descent, began in his adolescence as a guitarist of a cover band in Santos city. In the second half of 1989, he attended a music festival with some friends from the school and got the third place. Some members of the band decided to invest in their own songs and then came Mitrium in 1990, their first band that released an LP in 1993 that caught the attention of the English group IRON MAIDEN, who in 1994 invited Edu Falaschi to participate in the contest to replace Bruce Dickinson.
In 1998, he was invited by the musicians of the group Symbols of Time to produce the first CD of the band, after the production, Eduardo assumed the position as vocalist and the group decided to be called only Symbols. In parallel, Edu participated in the album Ordinary Existence of the band Venus as singer, arranger and voice producer.
But the great visibility came in August 2000, when he became the singer and one of the main composer of Angra, where he performed until 2012. With ANGRA, Edu recorded 6 albums (Rebirth, Hunters and Prey, Rebirth Live in São Paulo, Temple of Shadows, Aurora Consurgens and Aqua).
In 2006 the artist created his own band, ALMAH, that quickly reached enormous international success. The band has released 5 studio albums and toured worldwide.
In July 2017, Edu began his solo career with the "Rebirth of Shadows Tour", a historical tour that featured hits from his times in Angra, with songs from the albums "Rebirth", "Hunters and Prey", "Temple of Shadows", "Aurora Consurgens" and "Aqua". There were 50 shows, most of them sold out, the world tour passed through Brazil, Colombia, Europe and Japan.
With the consolidation of his name as a solo artist, Edu Falaschi is the main artist in the cover of ROADIE CREW MAGAZINE (issue #260 January 2019), It's the biggest Latin American rock magazine, the singer talks about his history and details of his new tour, "Temple of Shadows in Concert", that celebrates 15 years of the TOS album, performing the whole legendary "Temple of Shadows" cd and some more Angra hits, the show count on a Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra or Strings Quartet. The new tour already has about 20 concerts scheduled in Brazil, and has as spot light the biggest show to be performed by the artist, the show in São Paulo on May 04th at Tom Brasil, one of the most important venues in Brazil. The show will be registered in video for a Blu-Ray releasing, there will have the participation of the Bachiana Philharmonic Orchestra and regency of the great João Carlos Martins, Kai Hansen guitar player and singer from Helloween, among many other guests and surprises!
Early life and first musical experiences
When he was one year old, Falaschi's parents moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he lived until the age of 12. His mother decided to move back to São Paulo, and then São Vicente, influenced by factors including the death of Falaschi's father.[1]
Falaschi's first experience with music began as a child. Some of his relatives were non-professional musicians, and he used to sing with his father and uncles during family meetings. By the time he was 14 years old, he was taking guitar lessons, and his interest in music increased. Although he was strongly influenced by the singers Ronnie James Dio and Bruce Dickinson, Falaschi decided to play instrumental songs instead.
He played the drums for six months in a blues band with his friends, and he also played bass and guitar and sang backing vocals in a cover band. In 1989, he was invited by school friends to join a band as a singer to play at a music contest. They recorded a demo tape and played for 5,000 people. Subsequently, in 1990, some of the band members decided to form Mitrium, a rock band, in which they played their own compositions.
Career with Mitrium
Mitrium began Falaschi's professional career as vocalist and composer. In 1991, they recorded their first demo tape with the song "Just Remember". Afterwards, they recorded the second demo with the songs "The Shadows" and "You Can Choose The Side of Darkness", both written by Eduardo Falaschi.
The band grew quickly in São Vicente, so they decided to look for opportunities in São Paulo, where they signed a record deal with a record company which released a split-LP called Eyes of Time with four tracks: "Eyes of Time", "Run From the Fire", "Lives So Close" and "The Shadows", all of them written by Falaschi.
In 1994, the heavy metal band Iron Maiden was looking for a new singer through an international contest sponsored by the band, resulting in thousands of tapes being sent in by would-be rock stars. With the increasing recognition of Mitrium, Falaschi had the chance of taking part in the contest. Unexpectedly, he was one of the selected singers from Brazil (along with Andre Matos, then vocalist of Angra) and later from all around the world, getting in contact with Dick Bell, production director of Iron Maiden Holding LTD. In the end, the band did not pick Falaschi.
In spite of the professional career success, on August 5, 1994 Falaschi was forced to leave Mitrium due to personal problems, but he kept playing just for fun with his friends, and later recorded a demo, with eight simple rock n' roll songs with a band called Opium.
Career with Symbols, Angra and Almah
Falaschi decided to take a break for almost four years. In the middle of 1998, he was invited by the band Symbols to produce their first album. The leader of the band was Tito Falaschi, his brother. Falaschi ended up producing the album and also being a member of the band. While their first album self-titled Symbols was being released, he was invited to perform in the album Ordinary Existence by Venus. In 2000, Symbols released their second album, called Call to the End.
The Brazilian band Angra was looking for new members, and after a trial among other vocalists, Falaschi was invited to join the band in 2000. As in 2012, Edu left Angra due to health issues and problems within the band.
In 2006, under the project name Almah, he released his first solo album, self-titled. In 2008, as a full band, Almah released their second album, Fragile Equality.
Health-Voice Problems and Treatment
Edu performed poorly at Rock in Rio 2011, after which he started his treatment. Edu Falaschi talked about this problems in an interview for a Russian website in 2012:[2]
The problem wasn't with my vocal chords[sic], I had a reflux problem. It's something that happens in your stomach – when you start eating things that are not so good, like Coca-Cola or coffee, your acid starts becoming bigger and bigger and then you feel the acid going up into your vocal chords. Formally I didn't have any problem with my vocal chords, my vocal chords were OK, but I had a high level of acid so often that I needed a break. I started singing very bad, and I didn't know why. When I would go to doctors, they would say I was fine, they didn't see any problem with my vocal chords. It was only a few years later when I found out that the problem was with the acid. Then I started getting treatment, and my voice started to become better and better. Nowadays my voice is OK, and this is very nice. I can sing Angra songs normally again, as I did in 2001 and 2002.
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