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Artist
Leo Alves Vieira
8+ albums
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Brazilian, born in February 13th, 1978, at Rio de Janeiro. Leo Alves Vieira's parents both had musical experience. Portuguese father, Diniz, used to play violin in a priest school orchestra in Portugal, and Brazilian mother, Lucia, used to play the acoustic guitar and sing along with her friends, a successful Brazilian group called "Clube da Esquina", that recorded their first record with Milton Nascimento on vocals. She gave up her instrument to the MPB guitar player Francisco Horta, at that time a political prisoner of Brazilian dictatorship. Leo's grandfather, Mario Alves de Souza Vieira, father of Lucia, was killed by that dictatorship, tortured (impaled) to death. It seems that his revolutionary grandfather's blood runs in his veins. His musical energy is filled with struggles to musical patterns of all sorts, especially the so-called avant-garde academic scene around the western musical world... Though his influences relates to various avant-garde composers, as well as popular Brazilian and worldwide 'folk' traditions, Leo Alves Vieira tried to develop an intuitional composition process that flows equally between rational and emotional boundaries. He began his musical instruction in primary school at Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil along this school's choir, conducted by Hermano Vianna. Since then, he has had acoustic and electric guitar lessons with teachers from Rio and São Paulo as well (when he lived there from 1988 to 1992). In 1994, he entered a full musical e
