Ciro Pessoa
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Ciro Pessoa Mendes is a Brazil
ian singer-songwriter
, journalist and poet. Formerly a member of rock band Titãs
and the founder and lead vocalist
of the now-defunct post-punk
band Cabine C
, he currently follows a solo career, releasing two albums as of yet.
in 1957. As he turned seven years old, he was already playing some chords on the acoustic guitar. He used to read Lewis Carroll
, Monteiro Lobato
and Jules Verne
, and used to listen to Roberto Carlos
, Os Mutantes
, The Beatles
and Secos & Molhados
. When he was eleven, he took part of a junior talent quest on the Ilha Porchat Club in São Vicente
, and won the first place by playing the role of "Aroeira", of Geraldo Vandré
.
He studied at Colégio Equipe and in the late seventies, he started opening shows of artists like Walter Franco
, Novos Baianos
and Jards Macalé, invited by former President of CCE (Centro Cultural Equipe) Sérgio Groismann to perform at the festivals of the school. In one of these festivals, he took the stage for the first time with his friends which would later form the Titãs do Iê-Iê.
, where he made performances of MPB
and Bossa Nova
throughout several countries.
In 1981, back to Brazil, he joined Branco Mello
, Marcelo Fromer
, Arnaldo Antunes
, Tony Bellotto
, Paulo Miklos
, Sérgio Britto
and Nando Reis
to form the Titãs
. They performed in several different places, but their official debut was on October 15, 1982, at SESC Pompeia. He left with Titãs a number of hits, like "Sonífera Ilha", "Toda Cor", "Homem Primata" and "Babi Índio".
He left Titãs in 1983, and formed in 1986 a post-punk
music band named Cabine C
, in which he served as the lead vocalist and guitarist. The band released only one album, named Fósforos de Oxford
("Match
es from Oxford"), disbanding one year after its foundation.
In the early nineties, he was the bandleader of another group: CPSP (Ciro Pessoa e Seu Pessoal). They have not released any album, but they performed several times in many Brazilian cities.
In 2002, the CD Eu e Meu Guarda-Chuva was released, containing 11 tracks composed with Branco Mello, in 1985.
As a journalist from Editora Abril
, he earned prizes with the articles "Pela Estrada Adentro" (2002) and "Cem Viagens de Sonhos". He also writes for the magazines Playboy
and Revista VIP, signed by his Dharmic
name Tenzïn Chöpel.
In 2003, he released his first solo album, called No Meio da Chuva Eu Grito Help ("In the Middle of the Rain I Shout Out for Help"), with 11 tracks produced by Apollo 9
and released by Voice Print
.
In 2010, he released his second solo album, Em Dia com a Rebeldia.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
, journalist and poet. Formerly a member of rock band Titãs
Titãs
Titãs are a rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Their best-known line up is the one in the album Cabeça Dinossauro : Nando Reis , Branco Mello , Marcelo Fromer , Arnaldo Antunes , Tony Bellotto , Paulo Miklos , Charles Gavin and Sérgio Britto...
and the founder and lead vocalist
Lead vocalist
The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...
of the now-defunct post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
band Cabine C
Cabine C
Cabine C were a Brazilian post-punk band formed in 1986 in São Paulo City, São Paulo. The band primarily consisted of former Titãs member Ciro Pessoa , Anna Ruth , Wania Forghieri and former Akira S e As Garotas Que Erraram member Marinella 7 .According to Ciro Pessoa, the band...
, he currently follows a solo career, releasing two albums as of yet.
Early life
Ciro Pessoa was born in São PauloSão Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
in 1957. As he turned seven years old, he was already playing some chords on the acoustic guitar. He used to read Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
, Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato
José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo but he had been previously a prolific writer of fiction, a translator and an art critic...
and Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
, and used to listen to Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos (singer)
Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....
, Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes ) are an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that were linked with the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s. It was formed by two brothers and a vocalist, but has gone through numerous personnel changes throughout its existence...
, The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
and Secos & Molhados
Secos & Molhados
Secos & Molhados was an innovative glam-rock Brazilian band formed in 1971 that helped launch singer Ney Matogrosso's career. The other two members were João Ricardo, founder of the group, and Gerson Conrad. Though this frist line-up was short-lived - only two albums were released, one in 1973 and...
. When he was eleven, he took part of a junior talent quest on the Ilha Porchat Club in São Vicente
São Vicente, São Paulo
São Vicente is a coastal city of southern São Paulo, Brazil. Its estimated population in 2006 was 329,370 inhabitants.It was the first Portuguese permanent settlement in the Americas and the first capital of the Captaincy of São Vicente, now the state of São Paulo...
, and won the first place by playing the role of "Aroeira", of Geraldo Vandré
Geraldo Vandré
Geraldo Vandré , is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitar player.In 1966 his song Disparada , interpreted by Jair Rodrigues, was a success at the Record Festival...
.
He studied at Colégio Equipe and in the late seventies, he started opening shows of artists like Walter Franco
Walter Franco
Walter Franco is a Brazilian singer and composer. In 1998 he contributed to the Rosa Passos album Especial Tom Jobim...
, Novos Baianos
Novos Baianos
Novos Baianos was a Brazilian rock and MPB group from Salvador, Bahia. It was formed in the 1960s and enjoyed success throughout most of the 1970s. The band members were Paulinho Boca de Cantor , Pepeu Gomes , Moraes Moreira , Baby Consuelo and Luiz Galvão...
and Jards Macalé, invited by former President of CCE (Centro Cultural Equipe) Sérgio Groismann to perform at the festivals of the school. In one of these festivals, he took the stage for the first time with his friends which would later form the Titãs do Iê-Iê.
Career
In 1979, he moved to EuropeEurope
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, where he made performances of MPB
Música Popular Brasileira
Música Popular Brasileira or MPB designates a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. It is not a discrete genre but rather a constellation that combines original songwriting and updated versions of traditional Brazilian urban music styles like samba and samba-canção with contemporary...
and Bossa Nova
Bossa Nova
Bossa Nova may refer to:*Bossa nova, a style of music*Bossa Nova , a dance form associated with the music*Bossa Nova , a 2000 film*Bossa Nova - album by John Pizzarelli...
throughout several countries.
In 1981, back to Brazil, he joined Branco Mello
Branco Mello
Branco Mello is a Brazilian musician and actor, best known as the vocalist and bassist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. He has also played small but significant roles for the movies.- Childhood :...
, Marcelo Fromer
Marcelo Fromer
Marcelo Fromer was the guitarist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. One of the founding members and also the band's manager, he died in 2001, after being hit by a motorcycle while jogging.- Childhood :...
, Arnaldo Antunes
Arnaldo Antunes
Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...
, Tony Bellotto
Tony Bellotto
Antonio Carlos Liberalli Bellotto is a Brazilian musician and writer, best known as the guitarist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. He has also written and released several books. Tony keeps a column called "Cenas Urbanas" at Brazilian magazine Veja.- Childhood :Bellotto decided to be a rock...
, Paulo Miklos
Paulo Miklos
Paulo Roberto de Souza Miklos is a multi-instrumentalist, musician and actor from Brazil. He is best known for his works for the band Titãs, which he is a member since its beginning, in 1981. Singing and playing the harmonica and the sax are some of his most notable contributions for the band. As...
, Sérgio Britto
Sérgio Britto
Sérgio Britto is a Brazilian musician. He is best known as the keyboardist and vocalist for the band Titãs, and also for his solo albums, in which he played the acoustic guitar...
and Nando Reis
Nando Reis
Nando Reis is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and lead singer of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own band called Os Infernais...
to form the Titãs
Titãs
Titãs are a rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Their best-known line up is the one in the album Cabeça Dinossauro : Nando Reis , Branco Mello , Marcelo Fromer , Arnaldo Antunes , Tony Bellotto , Paulo Miklos , Charles Gavin and Sérgio Britto...
. They performed in several different places, but their official debut was on October 15, 1982, at SESC Pompeia. He left with Titãs a number of hits, like "Sonífera Ilha", "Toda Cor", "Homem Primata" and "Babi Índio".
He left Titãs in 1983, and formed in 1986 a post-punk
Post-punk
Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
music band named Cabine C
Cabine C
Cabine C were a Brazilian post-punk band formed in 1986 in São Paulo City, São Paulo. The band primarily consisted of former Titãs member Ciro Pessoa , Anna Ruth , Wania Forghieri and former Akira S e As Garotas Que Erraram member Marinella 7 .According to Ciro Pessoa, the band...
, in which he served as the lead vocalist and guitarist. The band released only one album, named Fósforos de Oxford
Fósforos de Oxford
-Note:* "Tão Perto" is also present in the compilation of Brazilian post-punk music The Sexual Life of the Savages.-External links:* *...
("Match
Match
A match is a tool for starting a fire under controlled conditions. A typical modern match is made of a small wooden stick or stiff paper. One end is coated with a material that can be ignited by frictional heat generated by striking the match against a suitable surface...
es from Oxford"), disbanding one year after its foundation.
In the early nineties, he was the bandleader of another group: CPSP (Ciro Pessoa e Seu Pessoal). They have not released any album, but they performed several times in many Brazilian cities.
In 2002, the CD Eu e Meu Guarda-Chuva was released, containing 11 tracks composed with Branco Mello, in 1985.
As a journalist from Editora Abril
Editora Abril
Editora Abril is a major Brazilian publisher and printing company and one of the biggest media holdings in Southern America. The company was founded in 1950 by Victor Civita in São Paulo and is now part of Grupo Abril....
, he earned prizes with the articles "Pela Estrada Adentro" (2002) and "Cem Viagens de Sonhos". He also writes for the magazines Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
and Revista VIP, signed by his Dharmic
Dharma
Dharma means Law or Natural Law and is a concept of central importance in Indian philosophy and religion. In the context of Hinduism, it refers to one's personal obligations, calling and duties, and a Hindu's dharma is affected by the person's age, caste, class, occupation, and gender...
name Tenzïn Chöpel.
In 2003, he released his first solo album, called No Meio da Chuva Eu Grito Help ("In the Middle of the Rain I Shout Out for Help"), with 11 tracks produced by Apollo 9
Apollo 9
Apollo 9, the third manned mission in the American Apollo space program, was the first flight of the Command/Service Module with the Lunar Module...
and released by Voice Print
Voice print
Voice print may refer to:* VoicePrint, a Canadian audio-only TV network* Spectrogram, a image representing the sounds in a voice* Voice print, a verification method of speaker recognition* Voiceprint Records, an English record label...
.
In 2010, he released his second solo album, Em Dia com a Rebeldia.
Solo
- No Meio da Chuva Eu Grito Help (20032003 in music-January:* January – following an investigation by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and London detectives, police raids in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 original Beatles studio tapes, recorded during the Let It Be sessions. Five people are arrested...
) - Em Dia com a Rebeldia (20102010 in music2010 in music may refer to:*2010 in American music*2010 in Australian music*2010 in British music*2010 in Canadian music*2010 in European music *2010 in Irish music*2010 in Japanese music*2010 in New Zealand music...
)
Selected filmography
- Areias Escaldantes - !987
- Oceano Atlantis - 1992
- As Andorinhas - 1993