O Rappa
Encyclopedia
O Rappa is a Brazil
ian reggae
/rock
band from Rio de Janeiro
, Brazil
. They combine many styles such as Rock
, Reggae
, Funk
, Hip hop
and Samba
. O Rappa's songs contain sharp protests against the social problems occurring in Brazil and the members of the band themselves are supporters of numerous social projects.
artist Papa Winnie
came to Brazil but he had no band to play shows with him. He immediately picked four people: Nelson Meirelles, Marcelo Lobato, Alexandre Menezes and Marcelo Yuka as the band. After Papa Winnie's shows, the four decided to stay together picking Falcão as the 5th member and vocalist.
In 1994, they released their first album, on Warner, O Rappa
. It was initially only known to small groups within the working class suburbs or Rio de Janeiro
. In 1996 the album Rappa Mundi
was released. Most of the music was a success, especially the cover of "Hey Joe
", a song made famous by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
.
However it wasn't until the third album Lado B Lado A
in 1999, that O Rappa gained widespread fame selling over 150 000 copies of that album. Their film clip for their song Minha Alma was also held in high regard winning many MTV Brasil's Vídeo Music Awards.
In November 2000, drummer Marcelo Yuka was shot during a robbery. He tried to avoid the assault by slamming his car against the bandits. The incident left him a paraplegic and he was forced to leave the band. He was replaced by Marcelo Lobato.
In August 2001, the group released its first live album, Instinto Coletivo. It featured a couple of tracks recorded in the studio with the participation of Sepultura
and Asian Dub Foundation
.
On 7 July 2007, O Rappa performed at the Brazilian leg
of Live Earth
in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2008 they released their latest album, 7 Vezes
.
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 reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
/rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band from Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
, Brazil
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...
. They combine many styles such as Rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, Reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
, Funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
, Hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
and Samba
Samba
Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...
. O Rappa's songs contain sharp protests against the social problems occurring in Brazil and the members of the band themselves are supporters of numerous social projects.
History
In 1993, the reggaeReggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
artist Papa Winnie
Papa Winnie
Papa Winnie is a reggae musician from St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. As for 1997 he had sold over 200,000 albums in Latin America and Asia...
came to Brazil but he had no band to play shows with him. He immediately picked four people: Nelson Meirelles, Marcelo Lobato, Alexandre Menezes and Marcelo Yuka as the band. After Papa Winnie's shows, the four decided to stay together picking Falcão as the 5th member and vocalist.
In 1994, they released their first album, on Warner, O Rappa
O Rappa (album)
O Rappa is the first album by Brazilian band O Rappa. It was produced by Fábio Henriques and O Rappa. It is distributed through Warner Music.-Track listing:#"Catequeses Do Medo" - 3:56#"Não Vão Me Matar" - 5:17...
. It was initially only known to small groups within the working class suburbs or Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
. In 1996 the album Rappa Mundi
Rappa Mundi
Rappa Mundi is the second album by Brazilian band O Rappa. It was produced by Arnolpho Lima Filho . It is distributed through Warner Music.-Track listing:#"A Feira" - 3:59#"Miséria S.A." - 4:01#"Vapor Barato" - 4:23#"Ilê Ayê" – 3:50...
was released. Most of the music was a success, especially the cover of "Hey Joe
Hey Joe
"Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and as such, has been performed in a multitude of musical styles by hundreds of different artists since it was first written. "Hey Joe" tells the story of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico...
", a song made famous by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience were an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which...
.
However it wasn't until the third album Lado B Lado A
Lado B Lado A
Lado B Lado A is the third album by Brazilian band O Rappa. It was produced by Chico Neves except the song Minha Alma which was produced by Bill Laswell. It is distributed through Warner Music...
in 1999, that O Rappa gained widespread fame selling over 150 000 copies of that album. Their film clip for their song Minha Alma was also held in high regard winning many MTV Brasil's Vídeo Music Awards.
In November 2000, drummer Marcelo Yuka was shot during a robbery. He tried to avoid the assault by slamming his car against the bandits. The incident left him a paraplegic and he was forced to leave the band. He was replaced by Marcelo Lobato.
In August 2001, the group released its first live album, Instinto Coletivo. It featured a couple of tracks recorded in the studio with the participation of Sepultura
Sepultura
Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal, thrash metal and ultimately groove metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their later experiments melding nu metal, hardcore punk and industrial.Sepultura...
and Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation
Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence...
.
On 7 July 2007, O Rappa performed at the Brazilian leg
Live Earth concert, Rio de Janeiro
The Live Earth concert for South America was held at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 7, 2007. It is one of two free Live Earth concerts, the other being held in Washington, D.C. It was the last concert to start during the day-long event. However, that didn't make it the last to...
of Live Earth
Live Earth
-Background:Founded by Emmy-winning producer Kevin Wall, in partnership with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Live Earth was built upon the belief that entertainment has the power to transcend social and cultural barriers to move the world community to action...
in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2008 they released their latest album, 7 Vezes
7 Vezes
- Personnel :*Marcelo Falcão – Vocals*Alexandre Menezes – Guitar*Lauro Farias – Bass Guitar*Marcelo Lobato – Keyboards/Backing vocals...
.
Studio
- 1994 - O RappaO Rappa (album)O Rappa is the first album by Brazilian band O Rappa. It was produced by Fábio Henriques and O Rappa. It is distributed through Warner Music.-Track listing:#"Catequeses Do Medo" - 3:56#"Não Vão Me Matar" - 5:17...
- 1996 - Rappa MundiRappa MundiRappa Mundi is the second album by Brazilian band O Rappa. It was produced by Arnolpho Lima Filho . It is distributed through Warner Music.-Track listing:#"A Feira" - 3:59#"Miséria S.A." - 4:01#"Vapor Barato" - 4:23#"Ilê Ayê" – 3:50...
- 1999 - Lado B Lado ALado B Lado ALado B Lado A is the third album by Brazilian band O Rappa. It was produced by Chico Neves except the song Minha Alma which was produced by Bill Laswell. It is distributed through Warner Music...
(Side B Side A) - 2003 - O Silêncio Q Precede O EsporroO Silêncio Q Precede O EsporroO Silêncio Q Precede O Esporro is the fifth album by Brazilian band O Rappa. It was produced by Tom Capone and O Rappa. It is distributed through Warner Music.-Track listing:#"0'52" - 0:52#"Reza Vela" - 4:56#"0'05" - 0:05#"Rodo Cotidiano" – 6:13...
(The Silence That Precedes The Fight) - 2008 - 7 Vezes7 Vezes- Personnel :*Marcelo Falcão – Vocals*Alexandre Menezes – Guitar*Lauro Farias – Bass Guitar*Marcelo Lobato – Keyboards/Backing vocals...
(7 Times)
Live
- 2001 - Instinto Coletivo Ao VivoInstinto Coletivo Ao VivoInstinto Coletivo Ao Vivo is the fourth album by Brazilian band O Rappa and their first Live album. It was produced by Tom Capone and O Rappa except "Ninguém Regula A América" which features and is also produced by Sepultura and "Instinto Coletivo" which features and is also mixed by Asian Dub...
(Collective Instinct Live) - 2005 - Acústico MTVAcústico MTV (O Rappa)Acústico MTV is the sixth album by Brazilian band O Rappa and their second live album. It was produced by Carlos Eduardo Miranda. It is distributed through Warner Music.It was recorded in May 2005 in São Paulo...
(MTV Unplugged)
Active members
- Marcelo Falcão - vocalist
- Xandão (Alexandre Menezes) - guitars
- Lauro Farias - bass
- Marcelo Lobato - drums