Duca Leindecker (born April 5, 1970) is a Brazilian singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and writer, leader of the band Cidadão Quem. From 2008 to 2012 he formed

Pouca Vogal Pouca Vogal ("Few Vowels" in English) is a side project created by Brazilian rock singers gauchos Duca Leindecker (Leader and guitarist of the band Cidadão Quem) and Humberto Gessinger (Leader and bassist of the group Engenheiros do Hawaii). ...

, with

Humberto Gessinger Humberto Gessinger (born December 24, 1963) is best known as the musician, guitarist, and bassist from the Brazilian band Engenheiros do Hawaii. Musical career Engenheiros do Hawaii In late 1984, Gessinger formed a rock band besides two fr ...

Personal life

Born in

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in 1970, he began playing various instruments, and at when he was seventeen years old he recorded his first solo album and, in the early 1990s, was invited by

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to open his shows in Brazil. He recorded seven CDs with the Cidadão Quem group and participated to ''Rock in Rio III''. He is the author of themes for

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s. From 2008 to 2012 Duca dedicated himself to the duo Pouca Vogal, with

, leading to the release of two albums. In 2015 he released his first solo DVD, Plano Aberto, and in 2018 he launched Download Armas.

Private life

From 2001 to 2012 he was married to actress

Ingra Liberato Ingra de Souza Liberato (born September 21, 1966) is a Brazilian actress. From 2016 she began to sing as Ingra Lyberato. Career Ingra de Souza Liberato was born in Salvador, Bahia, the daughter of filmmakers. She had her debut in cinema at ...

, with whom he had his first child, Guilherme, born on July 11, 2003, in Rio de Janeiro. In the same year of their separation, he married the journalist and politician

Manuela d'Ávila Manuela Pinto Vieira d'Ávila (born 18 August 1981) is a Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, a member of the Communist Party of Brazil since 2001. She served as a federal deputy for Rio Grande do Sul between 2007 and 2015, being the ...

. The couple's daughter, Laura, was born on August 28, 2015, in Porto Alegre.

Discography

Bandaliera

* ''Nosso Lado Animal'' (1987) * ''Ao Vivo'' (1991)

Solo

* ''Duca Leindecker'' (1988) * ''Voz, Violão e Batucada'' (2013) * ''Plano Aberto'' (2015) * ''Baixar Armas'' (2018)

Cidadão Quem

* '' Outras Caras'' (1993) * ''A lente azul'' (1996) * ''Spermatozoon'' (1999) * ''Soma'' (2000) * '' Girassóis da Rússia'' (2002) * ''Acústico no Theatro São Pedro'' (2004) * '' 7'' (2007)

Pouca Vogal

* ''Pouca Vogal: Gessinger + Leindecker'' (2008) * ''Ao Vivo Em Porto Alegre'' (2009)

Books

Duca Leindecker wrote: * ''A casa da esquina'' (1999) * ''A favor do vento'' (2002) * ''O menino que pintava sonhos'' (2013)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Leindecker, Duca 1970 births Brazilian male guitarists Brazilian rock musicians Brazilian writers Living people Musicians from Porto Alegre 20th-century Brazilian male singers 20th-century Brazilian singers 21st-century Brazilian male singers 21st-century Brazilian singers Brazilian singer-songwriters Música Popular Brasileira guitarists Música Popular Brasileira singers