Ronaldo Lindenberg von Schilgem Cintra Nogueira (b. July 17, 1944, Niterói

Niterói

Niterói is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, southeast region of Brazil. It has an estimated population of 487,327 inhabitants and an area of ², being the sixth most populous city in the state and the highest Human Development Index. Integrates the Metropolitan Region of Rio de...

, 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...

), known by his artistic name Ronnie Von, is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian singer and television show host.

He became known in the sixties associated with the Jovem Guarda

Jovem Guarda

Jovem Guarda was primarily a Brazilian musical television show first aired by Rede Record in 1965, though the term soon expanded so as to designate the entire movement and style surrounding it...

. Ronnie Von currently presents a show called Todo Seu for the Gazeta channel.

Biography

Some of his greater successes include the hits Meu Bem - a Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 version of 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...

' Girl - and A Praça. He quickly earned the nickname Príncipe, or Prince, after participating in an interview with Hebe Camargo

Hebe Camargo

Hebe Maria Monteiro de Camargo Ravagnani is a Brazilian TV presenter. She is also a singer and actress.-Early years:...

. Ronnie started hosting his own television program in 1966, O Pequeno Mundo de Ronnie Von. 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...

 became a regular guest band on the show. During this period, the press tried to create a supposed rivalry between him and 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....

.

In 1968, he released a self-titled album that broke from the naïveté of the movement and ventured in more psychedelic

Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres, which are inspired by or influenced by psychedelic culture and which attempt to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in the...

 and experimental sounds. Following this release came A Misteriosa Luta do Reino de Parassempre contra o império de Nuncamais (1969) and A Máquina Voadora (1970). Though it did not meet with much success, today Ronnie's experimental work is being rediscovered by a new generation of rock listeners, rendering him a high degree of underground

Underground music

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 cult

Cult

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 status.

Discography

• 1966 - Ronnie Von - Meu Bem
• 1967 - O Novo Ídolo
• 1967 - Ronnie Von 2
• 1967 - Ronnie Von 3
• 1969 - Ronnie Von
• 1969 - A Misteriosa Luta do Reino de Parassempre Contra o Império de Nunca Mais
• 1970 - Máquina Voadora
• 1972 - Ronnie Von
• 1973 - Ronnie Von
• 1973 - Ronnie Von 2
• 1977 - Ronnie Von
• 1977 - Deje mi Vida - em espanhol
• 1978 - Ronnie Von
• 1981 - Sinal dos Tempos
• 1984 - Ronnie Von
• 1987 - Vida e Volta
• 1988 - Ronnie Von
• 1996 - Estrada da Vida

External links

• Ronnie Von's official website (Portuguese)
• Senhor F - 40 Years of "O Pequeno Mundo de Ronnie Von" (Portuguese)
• Complete discography of Ronnie Von (Portuguese)
• Ronnie Von in CliqueMusic (Portuguese)