Luiz Brasil is a Brazilian guitarist. He is best known as a guitarist who has performed with Caetano Veloso

Caetano Veloso

Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...

, Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...

, Gal Costa

Gal Costa

Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...

, 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...

, Cassia Eller

Cássia Eller

Cássia Rejane Eller was a Brazilian musician. She performed a fusion of rock and MPB.- Biography :After spending most of her adolescence in Brasília, Eller dropped out of high school and returned to her birthplace of Rio de Janeiro, where she began a career as a recording artist...

, and many other vocalists.

He was born into a musical family: his mother played piano, his brothers Jorge and Marcelo became drummers, and his brother Mou became a jazz guitarist. More recently, his daughter Tamima Brasil is a percussionist.

His early career included stints as guitarist with the rock group Scorpius (1970–1974), Zezé Motta (1978–1980), and the carnaval Trio elétrico

Trio Elétrico

Trio Elétrico is a kind of truck or float equipped with a high power sound system and a music group on the roof, playing for the crowd. It was created in Bahia specifically for Carnival and it is now used in similar events in other districts and countries...

 of Armandinho

Armandinho

Armandinho is a Brazilian composer and singer. he is son of Osmar Macedo, from the Trio Elétrico de Dodô e Osmar...

. More recently he has performed as a multi-instrumentalist (including mandolin

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

 and percussion instruments), arranger, composer, teacher, and occasional singer. His recent collaborators include Jaques Morelenbaum

Jaques Morelenbaum

Jaques Morelenbaum is a Brazilian instrumentalist, arranger, conductor, composer and music producer.Morelenbaum is the son of conductor Henrique Morelenbaum and piano teacher Sarah Morelenbaum. His siblings are Lucia Morelenbaum, clarinetist of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra; and Eduardo...

, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...

, Jussara Silveira, and Rita Ribeiro.

His first solo album was Brasilêru, released in 2005.