Blitz is a Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese.-Overview:Rock entered the Brazilian music scene in 1956, with the screening of the film The Blackboard Jungle, featuring Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", which would later be covered in Portuguese by Nora...

 band. The band was the first to achieve mainstream success and to have hit single

Hit single

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s (Você não soube me amar, A dois passos do paraíso, Ana Maria (biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho)) kick-starting the 1980s movement that would later be called "BRock". Its "classic" formation included Evandro Mesquita (voice

Voice

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), Lobão

Lobão

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 (drums

Drum kit

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, later Roberto "Juba" Gurgel), Antônio Pedro Fortuna (bass

Bass guitar

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, formerly with Os Mutantes

Os Mutantes

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 and Lulu Santos

Lulu Santos

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), William Forghieri (keyboards

Keyboard instrument

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) and Fernanda Abreu

Fernanda Abreu

-Biography:Fernanda was born and raised in a middle-class family of the South Zone, a neighborhood of Rio. Her first notable public appearance was the backing vocal of the band Blitz until 1986...

 and Márcia Bulcão (backing vocals

Backing vocalist

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).

Discography

• 1982 - As Aventuras da BLITZ
• 1983 - Radioatividade
• 1984 - BLITZ 3
• 1990 - Todas as Aventuras da BLITZ
• 1994 - BLITZ ao Vivo
• 1997 - Línguas
• 1999 - BLITZ 2000 Últimas Notícias
• 2006 - BLITZ - Com Vida
• 2008 - BLITZ - Ao Vivo e a Cores
• 2009 - Eskute