Daniel David Roland Pinto (born February 9, 1962), known as Dany Roland, is an Argentine-born Brazilian musician, actor,

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er, film director and

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, famous for being the drummer of the popular new wave band Metrô and for his collaborations with wife Bia Lessa.

Biography

Roland was born in

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, on February 9, 1962; his parents were

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of French,

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and

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descent who emigrated to Argentina from

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in the late 1950s. In 1963 his family moved to

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, where after growing up he learned how to play the drums and the electric guitar, and studied Economy and Journalism at the PUC-SP, but did not finish either course. In 1978 he founded, alongside his schoolmates of the Lycée Pasteur in São Paulo

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, Freddy and Alec Haiat, Xavier Leblanc, Yann Laouenan and Marcel Zimberg, the

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band "A Gota Suspensa", which released a self-titled album in 1983; in the following year, A Gota Suspensa changed its name to Metrô, acquiring higher fame. Roland left Metrô in 1987, a couple of months after the release of their second album, ''

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'', to pursue other musical projects; in the following year, Metrô split up. Alongside his former Metrô bandmate Xavier Leblanc Roland briefly played for the experimental rock band Okotô with Cherry Taketani and André Fonseca, and after moving to

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in the early 1990s with Yann Laouenan, he founded the

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band The Passengers (not to be mistaken with an earlier, also Belgian band formed in the late 1970s which later came to be known as The Names) alongside Diako Diakoff, Denis Moulin and Jack Roskam; they released a fairly successful eponymous album in 1992. In 1993 Roland returned to Brazil, settling in

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, where he met film and theater director Bia Lessa, his future wife; he arranged the soundtracks of many of her plays, most notably her adaptations of

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's ''

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'', Anton Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'', Robert Musil's ''

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'' and Jules Verne's ''

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''. In 1997 he co-directed alongside Lessa their first independent full-length film, the critically acclaimed ''Crede-Mi'', which was loosely based on

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's 1951 novel ''

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''. In 2002 Metrô reunited, and Roland returned as their guitarist. The band's comeback album, '' Déjà-Vu'', was produced by him alongside Yann Laouenan. They broke up once more in 2004 however, but announced yet another reunion in 2015. According to Roland, they are currently working on their fourth studio album, but it still has no name or a release date as of yet. In 2007 Roland formed the musical project Os Ritmistas alongside Stéphane San Juan, Domenico Lancellotti and Zero Telles; they released their first album in the same year. A second album by the project, entitled ''Aqui'', came out 10 years later, in 2017. In 2010 he made his first major appearance in a feature film, portraying Thomas on Gustavo Pizzi's ''

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''; he previously made a very brief cameo, alongside his Metrô bandmates, in Francisco de Paula's 1985 film ''Areias Escaldantes''. In 2016 Roland co-directed, alongside Bia Lessa, their first film since ''Crede-Mi'', ''Então Morri''; it premiered at the

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. Prior to acquiring greater prominence as a musician and producer, Roland was well known for portraying the character "Fernandinho" in an iconic series of commercials made by Brazilian clothing brand USTop, which aired from 1984 to 1988.Comercial USTop (1984)
/ref> Roland has two daughters with Bia Lessa: Maria and Clara.

Discography

With Metrô

With The Passengers

With Os Ritmistas

Filmography

As director

* 1997: ''Crede-Mi'' (co-directed with Bia Lessa) * 2016: ''Então Morri'' (co-directed with Bia Lessa)

As actor

* 1985: ''Areias Escaldantes'' – himself (cameo) * 2010: ''

'' – Thomas

References

External links

* *
Metrô's unofficial website

Official Os Ritmistas Facebook page
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