Ambitious Lovers were a musical duo composed of guitarist/singer Arto Lindsay and keyboardist Peter Scherer, active from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
[1] Lindsay had earlier been active with DNA, a seminal group in New York City's noisy no wave music scene.
Notable was a strong influence from Brazilian music and funk, with Lindsay sometimes singing in Portuguese (much of his childhood was in Brazil with his missionary parents).
[2] Envy (1984) was the first of a projected series of albums inspired by the seven deadly sins, though Ambitious Lovers recorded only Greed (1988) and Lust (1991) before disbanding.
Most of their albums featured appearances from many prominent New York-based musicians, including guitarists Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Bill Frisell; Brazilian music legend Caetano Veloso; percussionists Nana Vasconcelos and Joey Baron; bassist Melvin Gibbs; and Nile Rodgers.