Armando Teixeira is a Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 musician and record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

. He has worked with a variety of projects within a wide scope of genres.

Teixeira is a former member of indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 bands Ik Mux and Boris Ex-Machina, as well as the hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 group Da Weasel

Da Weasel

Da Weasel was a Portuguese hip-hop band from Almada, fronted by MCs Pacman and Virgul. They were one of the oldest hip-hop projects in Portugal, having been created in 1993 and terminated in 2010, and notorious for being a full session band, instead of relying on a DJ and samples...

 and industrial metal band Bizarra Locomotiva

Bizarra Locomotiva

Bizarra Locomotiva is an Industrial music band of Portugal. Its history dates back to 1993, when Armando Teixeira and Rui Sidónio started a band to participate in Modern Music Competition of the city of Lisbon....

. More recently, Teixeira has been involved with his solo projects Balla (musician)

Balla (musician)

Balla is the musical alter-ego of Portuguese musician and record producer Armando Teixeira . Balla's music references the sound and style of Serge Gainsbourg and Jaques Brel, combined with hip hop and cut-and-paste references drawn from his time as DJ and producer with both Bizarra Locomotiva and...

 and Bulllet, where he worked with Kalaf, Nel'Assassin of Micro and Legendary Tiger Man.