Brazilian rock
In 1949, Dodô and Osmar pioneered the use of this electric guitar in carnival celebrations, performing songs from an open car they dubbed the Trio Elétrico as they traveled through the streets of Salvador.
Additionally, instrumental groups such as the aforementioned Avalons, Tte Rebels, the Jordans, and Os Incríveis also gained widespread popularity, contributing to the vibrant and diverse landscape of Brazilian rock during this pivotal year.
[citation needed] Raul Seixas formed the first rock band from Salvador in 1965, the Panthers, which soon changed its name to Raulzito e os Panteras.
Ronnie Von started his career with the garage influence of Jovem Guarda, and his work unleashed the psychedelic style and he was who suggested the name of the band Os Mutantes.
In São Paulo Os Baobás made their mark by recording cover versions of songs by The Kinks, Love, Turtles and the Rolling Stones, during the beginning of their activities.
Sometimes, with the protest characteristic, the MPB base was formed: Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo, Geraldo Vandré, Sérgio Ricardo, João Donato, Eumir Deodato, Roberto Menescal, MPB4, Quarteto em Cy, Francis Hime, and Joyce, arising from Bossa Nova, despite the music is not rock, their collaboration is important on almost all popular urban genres, including the rock.
Some tropicalistas were: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Gal Costa, Rogério Duprat, Torquato Neto, Nara Leão, and others.
The seminal "tropicalista" Os Mutantes influenced and tended the psychedelic rock and roll and is one reference for several relevant bands and musicians in the world.
Clube da Esquina, a group of friends from Minas Gerais, one of the most culturally prolific regions of Brazil, was joined with the Tropicália and Jovem Guarda responsible for the diffusion on a bigger scale by the electrification of the pop and rock music, with a universal, but Brazilian proposal.
Another band with only one album, but today considered a classic of Brazilian rock is Karma [pt] with the work of the same name released in 1972: a forceful melodic Brazilian folk music with a vocal that remember The Byrds, and a bit of progressive rock and jazz, consistent orchestral arranges, and the famous Jorge Amiden's tritarra (a guitar with three arms).
The "carioca" (from Rio de Janeiro city) Azymuth, was formed in 1969 and is the Jazz rock side of this generation, but is responsible for the Brazilian pop music development too.
This higher mix between rock and Brazilian pop music resulted in several famous musicians and bands: Secos & Molhados (identified as glam rock too), Raul Seixas, Novos Baianos, A Cor do Som, Robertinho do Recife and a union of Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Maria Bethânia and Gilberto Gil in the show named Doces Bárbaros.
Other musicians - that helped to turn the traditional Brazilian music more flexible, with powerful rock or pop influences - were a relative hit too, like Elis Regina, Alceu Valença, Geraldo Azevedo, Belchior, Gonzaguinha, Zé Ramalho, Raimundo Fagner, Luiz Melodia, Boca Livre [pt], Maria Alcina [pt], Luli e Lucina and after the end of Novos Baianos, Baby Consuelo (then Baby do Brasil), Pepeu Gomes and Moraes Moreira, but there were musicians that made a more experimental mix, who didn't have the same good luck in their careers and access to the media, and because of this are known as "malditos", the darns, but at a later time they will be an important reference for the second Brazilian alternative scene - they are: Ednardo [pt], Walter Franco, Jorge Mautner, Jards Macalé, Taiguara, Arnaldo Baptista (Mutantes) and Sérgio Sampaio.
Despite this, it remains a historic event, featuring performances by Milton Nascimento and Som Imaginário [pt], A Bolha, Novos Baianos, Luiz Gonzaga and Tony Tornado.
The first Hollywood Rock festival took place in Rio, 1975 too, featuring performances by Raul Seixas, Rita Lee, O Terço, Vímana [pt] and others.
The Brazilian punk rock scene emerged in the late 1970s in São Paulo, drawing inspiration from bands such as the Sex Pistols, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges and The Ramones.
He united young people in opposition to Brazil's military regime, channeling revolutionary ideas through the politically charged band Restos de Nada, which began performing in 1978.
(later known as Condutores de Cadáver) emerged in São Paulo, Carne Podre in Curitiba, and Aborto Elétrico in Brasília, marking the nationwide spread of the punk movement.
English new wave, with its surprising variety of styles, arrived in Brazil through groups and personalities such as the Agentss, Blitz, Camisa de Vênus, Barão Vermelho, Kid Abelha, Os Paralamas do Sucesso, Fausto Fawcett, Lulu Santos, Rádio Táxi, Sempre Livre, Marina Lima, Dr. Silvana & Cia., Kiko Zambianchi, Engenheiros do Hawaii, RPM, Metrô, Ultraje a Rigor, Legião Urbana, Ira!, Titãs, Capital Inicial, Nenhum de Nós, Dulce Quental, Biquíni Cavadão, Zero, Violeta de Outono, Fellini, Vange Leonel, Os Cascavelletes, Black Future, Léo Jaime and João Penca e Seus Miquinhos Amestrados.
Two musicians and singer-songwriters, Renato Russo from Legião Urbana and Cazuza from Barão Vermelho, began brilliant solo careers from the 1980s to the 1990s but were HIV fatal victims.
At the start of the 1990s, the Brazilian music scene witnessed the birth of one of its most significant independent movements, influenced by British and American bands known for their loud, noisy guitar sounds, such as Sonic Youth, The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and The Telescopes.
Also in this period, many other bands acquired widespread national projection, such as: Raimundos (which was formed in the late 1980s, but only released its first album in 1994) with its Forrocore [pt] style, Skank and O Rappa, both of which with a style that can be designated like a kind of reggae-rock, Pato Fu as the first indie band that arrived at mainstream, Charlie Brown Jr., with its alternative rock with rap and skate punk influences, and Mamonas Assassinas, who was a great hit with humour and rock but its members died in a tragic plane accident (1996).
The MTV Brasil Unplugged format brought back to the mainstream some bands whose career had been mainly consolidated in the 1980s, like the Titãs in 1997, Capital Inicial in 2000, Ira!
At the beginning of the 1990s there was the Manguebeat (or Mangue Bit) movement that put Recife definitively as one of the principal places that has an important modern rock scene.
Some rock genres are very specific in Brazil, but with an important scene since the 90s like Grindcore, Guitar, Psychobilly, Death Metal, Ska Punk, etc.
The boundary between MPB - "Música popular brasileira" - and international electric pop and rock was largely broken with the TV Record Festival (1967), a milestone seen in the documentary Uma Noite em 67 [pt], and Tropicalismo.
Musicians and bands of the 90s absorbed definitely the rock aesthetic in the "MPB" or vice versa: Chico César, Fernanda Abreu, Paula Morelenbaum, Adriana Calcanhotto, Lenine, Paulinho Moska, Ed Motta, Badi Assad, Marisa Monte, Carlinhos Brown, Arnaldo Antunes, Nando Rei Zeca Baleiro, Lula Queiroga, Jair Oliveira, Wilson Simoninha, Léo Minax, Chico Amaral, Marina Machado, Bebel Gilberto, Zélia Duncan, Tony Platão (or Toni Platão), Pedro Mariano and Max de Castro.
There are a lot of opportunities with the festivals such as Bananada (Goiânia), Porão do Rock (Brasília), Camping Rock (Itabirito), Humaitá Pra Peixe (Rio de Janeiro), Grito Rock (itinerant), Fora do Eixo (itinerant), Abril Pro Rock (Recife), Goiânia Noise (Goiânia), Mada (festival) (Natal, Rio Grande do Norte), Calango (festival)(Cuiabá), Festival Garimpo (Belo Horizonte), Varadouro (Rio Branco), Rec-Beat (Recife), Jambolada (Uberlândia), Vaca Amarela (Goiânia) and independent labels (like Monstro Discos [pt], Senhor F [pt], Mondo 77, Trama [pt], Travolta Discos, Deckdisc, Urban Jungle, Fora do Eixo Discos, Escárnio e Osso).
Some magazines in the English language in the beginning of the 2000s deemed some worldwide genres like electronic rock (using this term on the 2000s music) and new rave having some Brazilian bands not only as the exponents but builders of these movements.
Wannabe Jalva is a space groove rock band formed in 2011 by Tiago Abrahão (guitar/bass/seq), Felipe Puperi (vocal/guitar), Rafael Rocha (vocal/guitar/bass) and Fernando Paulista (drums) in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
