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Leonardo "Léo" Jaime (born April 23, 1960) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor and writer, famous for being one of the founding members of the
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band João Penca e Seus Miquinhos Amestrados.


Biography

Léo Jaime was born in
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, Goiás, in 1960. In 1977, when he was 17 years old, he moved to
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to take acting classes, but later abandoned his studies and went to
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; there, he had a number of short-term jobs, including as a bartender and as a clothes salesman, before he embraced the musical career and founded the band Zoo (which would be renamed João Penca e Seus Miquinhos Amestrados in 1982) alongside Selvagem Big Abreu, Avellar Love, Cláudio Killer and Bob Gallo; however, he left the band in 1984 to pursue a solo career, releasing eight studio albums as of 2008 and collaborating with bands and singers such as Eduardo Dussek, Barão Vermelho (Jaime was originally invited to be the band's vocalist shortly after his departure from João Penca, but declined the offer claiming that his voice was "too soft" for the band's musical style and suggested they picked Cazuza instead),
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,
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and Metrô. His second studio album, ''Sessão da Tarde'', sold over 160,000 copies. In 1985 Jaime began to pursue a career as an actor as well; his debut film was Ivan Cardoso's '' As Sete Vampiras'', to which he also contributed an eponymous song to the soundtrack. Afterwards he appeared in and contributed to the soundtrack of Lael Rodrigues' '' Rock Estrela'', and also provided the singing voice of Dodger in the
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dub of ''
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''. He reached higher prominence after starring in the ''
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'' ''
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'' in 1988, and subsequently would also appear in '' O Profeta'', in the sitcom ''
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'' and in the long-running soap opera ''
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''. He was one of the hosts of the talk show '' Saia Justa'' from January to February 2014, alongside Dan Stulbach, Eduardo Moscovis and Xico Sá, and was Fernanda Lima's music director, bandleader and
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for the first eight seasons of '' Amor e Sexo''. He also starred in the theater plays ''Vítor e Vitória'', alongside Marília Pêra, and ''Era no Tempo do Rei'', based on Ruy Castro's eponymous work, portraying King
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(a role he would reprise in the 2017 ''telenovela'' '' Novo Mundo''). From 2015 to 2018 he hosted the talk show ''Papo de Segunda'' on
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, alongside Xico Sá, João Vicente de Castro and
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. In his first role as a voice actor since 1988, and as a film actor overall since 1990, Jaime provided the voice of Anger in the Brazilian Portuguese dub of
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's 2015 film '' Inside Out''. Jaime is also a writer, and has written articles for magazines and newspapers such as ''
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'', ''
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'' and '' Capricho'', as well as for TV shows such as ''
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'' and '' Megatom''. His first book, ''Cabeça de Homem'', was published in 2014 by Editora Agir. In 2015 Jaime released ''Nada Mudou'', a
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containing his first five albums (which were all out of print) re-released under CD format, all of them remastered and containing bonus tracks. Late in life Jaime became
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due to panhypopituitarism, a
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which decreases the secretion of most of his
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s; he was diagnosed with the condition circa 1992, after suffering a
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in a motorcycle accident of which he eventually recovered. In a 2013 interview, he stated he was 1.77 meters tall and weighed 120 kilos,Revista Trip – Léo Jaime
what would put him in Obese Class II category according to the BMI Table. He married
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Daniela Lux Jaime in 2004 and has with her a son, David (b. 2008).


Discography


With João Penca e Seus Miquinhos Amestrados

* 1983: '' Os Maiores Sucessos de João Penca e Seus Miquinhos Amestrados'' * 1989: '' Sucesso do Inconsciente'' (additional vocals on the track "S.O.S. Miquinhos")


Solo

* 1984: ''Phodas "C"'' * 1985: ''Sessão da Tarde'' * 1986: ''Vida Difícil'' * 1988: ''Direto do Meu Coração pro Seu'' * 1989: ''Avenida das Desilusões'' * 1990: '' Sexo, Drops e Rock n' Roll'' * 1995: ''Todo Amor'' * 2008: ''Interlúdio'' * 2015: ''Nada Mudou'' (
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)


As a session member

;Eduardo Dussek * 1983: ''Cantando no Banheiro'' (guitar and backing vocals in "Rock da Cachorra"; with João Penca e Seus Miquinhos Amestrados) ;Metrô * 1985: ''
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'' (guitar and backing vocals in "Cenas Obscenas"; guitar in "Johnny Love")


Bibliography

* 2014: ''Cabeça de Homem'' ()


Filmography


Film

* 1985: '' As Sete Vampiras'' – Bob Rider * 1985: '' Rock Estrela'' – Tavinho * 1988: ''
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'' – Dodger (singing voice only) * 1990: '' O Escorpião Escarlate'' – Jarbas * 2015: '' Inside Out'' – Anger (voice only)


Television

* 1988: ''
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'' – Zezinho * 2006: '' O Profeta'' – Caruso (1 episode) * 2008: ''
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'' – Tavares (1 episode) * 2009: '' Caras & Bocas'' – presenter (2 episodes) * 2012–2015: ''
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'' – Nando Rocha * 2017: '' Novo Mundo'' – King John VI of Portugal


References


External links

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