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Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho (born May 5, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, and composer. She had sung on the radio from the age of seven, but her first LP was 1968's Andança. She had a variety of hits in the 1970s with her 1979 song Coisinha Do Pai being her biggest hit. The song was inserted into the Mars Pathfinder.[1] In the 1980s she started a "samba pagode" movement which used different instruments for samba and had no "pop" arrangements. She also set up samba schools and began doing more socially conscious music....

Vinicius Cantuária was born in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, living there until he was seven, when his family moved to Rio. As singer, songwriter, guitarist and percussionist, his career connects several zones of Brazilian music. And though his music is known for its decidedly twenty-first century feel, Cantuária’s band might best be described as ‘post-electronica acoustic’ – a band that includes jazz bassist Paul Socolow, Michael Leonhart (the young Steely Dan trumpeter) and a rotating crew of Brazilian percussionists Nanny Assis, Mauro Refosco and legendary drummer Paulo Braga. Their repertoire typically includes songs by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Gilberto Gil, as...

HIDEOUS DIVINITY's music starts taking form in January 2007 between Oslo (Enrico, former founding member of HOUR OF PENANCE now living in Norway) and Rome (Synder & Mauro, both members and ex-members of... way too many bands to mention). The aim is to come out with some real, straight-in-your-face unholy death metal: in other words, the only music in the world that deserves to be played. The two songs featuring the "Sinful Star Necrolatry" were written and arranged by Enrico during 2007 and finally recorded by Enrico, Synder and Mauro in September, 2007 at the 16th Cellar Studios by the...

1996: Thy Unholy Arrival SURRENDER OF DIVINITY was blasphemously spawned in Bangkok/Thailand by a 4 Siamese Christ-Beheader: Monchai on vocals, Whathayakorn on guitars, Ekaluxx on bass and Paritat on drums with the very basic intention to spawn a strongest and truest Satan-spawning, Christ-beheading, Mary-raping Black "fucking" Metal band and spreading the black seeds of Satan in the empire of SIAM. 1997: The Beginning of the Blasphemous Spell The band decided to vomit forth and record a demo tape. This tape was a promo tape and the band never released it, officially. There were only 20 copies that have been pressed...