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Siderado
''Siderado'' is the fourth studio album by Skank, released in 1998. It had the hits "Resposta" and "Mandrake e os Cubanos". ''Siderado'' has sold 750,000 copies. Track listing All tracks by Samuel Rosa and Chico Amaral, except where otherwise noted. #"Marginal Tietê" #"Do Ben" (Samuel Rosa/Marcelo Yuka) #"Resposta" (Samuel Rosa/Nando Reis Nando Reis (, born José Fernando Gomes dos Reis; January 12, 1963) is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and one of the lead singers of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own ...) #"Siderado" #"Mandrake e os Cubanos" #"Os Homens das Cavernas" #"Romance Noir" #"Don Blás" #"Calipsoê" #"No Meio Do Mar" #"Saideira" (Samuel Rosa/Rodrigo F. Leão) References {{Authority control 1998 albums Skank (band) albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skank (band)
Skank is a Brazilian band from Belo Horizonte. Having begun in 1991, they sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums as of 2004. Initially intending to mix dancehall with traditional Brazilian styles, later the band changed its sonority to music closer to Britpop and local movement Clube da Esquina. Biography In 1983, Samuel Rosa (guitars, vocals) and Henrique Portugal (keyboards) started to play in a reggae band called "Pouso Alto", along with Dinho Mourão (drums) and his brother Alexandre (bass). In 1991, Pouso Alto arranged for a performance in São Paulo, but due to the Mourão brothers not being in Belo Horizonte, bassist Lelo Zaneti and drummer Haroldo Ferretti were called for the gig. The band premiered on June 5, 1991, and due to the performance competing with the Campeonato Paulista final match, the audience was 37 people. After the show, the group changed its name to Skank, inspired by Bob Marley's song "Easy skanking", and began to perform regularly at "Mister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Samba Poconé
''O Samba Poconé'' is the third studio album by Skank, released in 1996. It includes the hits "Garota Nacional" (which was also released in a Spanish-language version, "Chica Nacional") plus "Tão Seu", "Poconé" and "É Uma Partida de Futebol." ''O Samba Poconé'' sold 1.8 million copies, with 800,000 in two months. Track listing #"É Uma Partida de Futebol" (Nando Reis/Samuel Rosa) - 3:56 #"Eu Disse a Ela" ( Chico Amaral/Samuel Rosa) - 4:14 #"Zé Trindade" (featuring Manu Chao) (Chico Amaral/Samuel Rosa) - 4:07 #"Garota Nacional" (Chico Amaral/Samuel Rosa) - 5:17 #"Tão Seu" (Chico Amaral/Samuel Rosa) - 4:03 #"Sem Terra" (featuring Manu Chao) (Chico Amaral/Samuel Rosa) - 4:39 #"Os Exilados" (Chico Amaral/Samuel Rosa) - 4:05 #"Um Dia Qualquer" (Chico Amaral) - 4:52 #"Los Pretos" (featuring Manu Chao) (Chico Amaral/Samuel Rosa) - 3:59 #"Sul da América" (Chico Amaral/Samuel Rosa) - 4:14 #"Poconé" (Chico Amaral) - 5:18 Personnel ;Skank * Samuel Rosa - vocals, guit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maquinarama
''Maquinarama'' is the fifth studio album released by Skank, in 2000. With ''Maquinarama'', Skank began to move away from the reggae-tinged "party music" that had been a staple of the band for the first four albums. The album sold 350,000 copies. The song "Balada do Amor Inabalável" was also put to soundtrack album of famous Brazilian soap opera ''Laços de Família'' (The family ties). Track listing # "Água e Fogo" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral/Edgard Scandurra) # "Três Lados" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) # "Ela Desapareceu" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) # "Balada do Amor Inabalável" (Samuel Rosa/Fausto Fawcett) # "Canção Noturna" (Lelo Zaneti/Chico Amaral) # "Muçulmano" (Samuel Rosa/Rodrigo F. Leão) # "Maquinarama" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) # "Rebelião" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) # "A Última Guerra" (Samuel Rosa/Lô Borges/Rodrigo F. Leão) # "Fica" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) # "Ali" (Samuel Rosa/Nando Reis) # "Preto Damião" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) Personnel ;Skan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term ''reggae'' more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political commentary. It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument. Reggae is d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SonyBMG
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was an American record company owned as a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann. The venture's successor, the revived Sony Music, is wholly owned by Sony, following their buyout of the remaining 50% held by Bertelsmann. BMG was instead rebuilt as BMG Rights Management on the basis of 200 remaining artists. History Sony BMG Music Entertainment began as the result of a merger between Sony Music (part of Sony) and Bertelsmann Music Group (part of Bertelsmann) completed on August 6, 2004. It was one of the Big Four music companies and includes ownership and distribution of recording labels such as Arista Records, Columbia Records, Epic Records, J Records, Mchenry Records, Jive Records, RCA Victor Records, RCA Records, Legacy Recordings, Sonic Wave America and others. The merger affected all Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group companies worldwide except for Japan, where it was felt that it would reduce competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records (often referred in copyright notices as SKG Music, LLC) was an American record label founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks Pictures. The label operated until 2003 when it was sold to Universal Music Group. The label itself also featured a Nashville, Tennessee-based subsidiary, DreamWorks Nashville, which specialized in country music and was shut down in 2006. The company's logo was designed by Roy Lichtenstein and was his last commission before his death in 1997. History In October 1994, four years after David Geffen sold his former record label Geffen Records to MCA Music Entertainment, he joined Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg to form DreamWorks SKG. SKG stood for Spielberg, Katzenberg & Geffen. The three partners later launched the subsidiary record label DreamWorks Records in early 1996. Rufus Wainwright was the first artist to be signed to the new record label, in early 1996. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Rosa
Samuel Rosa de Alvarenga (born July 15, 1966) is lead singer, primary composer and guitarist of Brazilian rock band Skank (band), Skank. He has a psychology degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Samuel writes the music for most of the group's songs, with 80% of the lyrics by Chico Amaral. Other songwriting partners were Nando Reis, Arnaldo Antunes, and Lô Borges. Samuel is an avid Association football, football fan and supports Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, Cruzeiro. References 1966 births Living people 21st-century Brazilian male singers 21st-century Brazilian singers Brazilian male guitarists 20th-century Brazilian male singers 20th-century Brazilian singers Brazilian rock musicians People from Belo Horizonte Brazilian rock singers Latin Grammy Award winners Latin music songwriters Rock songwriters {{Brazil-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chico Amaral
Chico () means ''small'', ''boy'' or ''child'' in the Spanish language. It is also the nickname for Francisco in the Portuguese language (). Chico may refer to: Places *Chico, California, a city *Chico, Montana, an unincorporated community *Chico, Texas, a city *Chico, Washington, a census designated place *Chico River (other) *Río Chico (other) * Chico Creek, Colorado *Chico Formation, a Mesozoic geologic formation in the US * Chico, or Ch'iqu, a volcano in Bolivia People Nickname *Alfred "Chico" Alvarez (1920–1992), Canadian trumpeter *Chico Anysio (1931–2012), Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer *Francisco Aramburu (1922–1997), Brazilian footballer *Chico Bouchikhi (born 1954), musician and a co-founder of the Gipsy Kings, later leader of Chico & the Gypsies *Chico Buarque (born 1944), Brazilian singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet *Chico (footballer, born 1981), Portuguese footballer Francisco José Castro Fernandes *Chic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelo Yuka
O Rappa was a Brazilian reggae/rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Combining many styles such as rock, reggae, funk, hip hop and samba, Many of O Rappa's songs contain sharp protests against the social problems in Brazil and the members of the band themselves are supporters of numerous social projects. History In 1993, reggae artist Papa Winnie came to Brazil but 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 of 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 was not until the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
