Artist: Marcelo D2 Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Other
Discography:
Perfil Year: 2007
Tracks: 18
A Procura da Batida Perfeita Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Eu Tiro E Onda Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
Marcelo D2 was born on November 5, 1967, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Living in the hapless suburbs, he grew up 'tween the "favelas" and the streets of Andarai, far from mailing-card Rio and its rich seaboard districts. The hardships of his life required him to take up working at 13, and ahead decent a star topology, Marcelo worked as a doorman, a paper boy, a cleanser, a trafficker, and an office boy, among other things. Contrary to expectations, going away home young gave him the opportunity to pull through. His childhood friends world Health Organization remained in the territorial dominion were consumed by the traffickers, and one by 1, D2 lost his best friends in armed confrontations. By the time he reached 19, he had served in the Army and was matrimonial.
Planet Hemp, the band that protruding Marcelo to fame, had its roots in the streets of Catete. Marcelo's Dead Kennedys T-shirt sparked conversation at a casual meeting between D2 and Skunk in the early '90s, and apt their shared admiration for the skatepunk, stone, and underground movements, and their common admiration for marihuana refinement, Planet Hemp (a denotation to High Times magazine) were formed. Eventually, D2 and Skunk were joined by Rafael (guitar), Formigão (bass voice), and Bacalhau (drums), and the radical creatively intertwined strike vocals with psychedelic guitars. Feeling disillusioned by Skunk's death in 1994, D2 invited his friends Black Alien and B Negão to part the vocals with him. In 1995 they released their number one album,
Usuario (Exploiter), which sold more than 5,000 copies nationally. In 1997, they released
Os Cães Ladram Mas a Caravana Não Para (The Dogs Bark But the Caravan Doesn't Stop). Three age subsequently came
A Invasão do Sagaz Homem Fumaça (The Invasion of the Shrewd Smoking Man), followed by the live album
MTV ao Vivo: Planet Hemp in 2001.
D2 felt it was time to find his own direction and flesh out his musical horizons. He had released a solo album in 1998, with a hip-hop/samba influence and lyrics about his life experiences. The album was identical well standard by critics and sold cl,000 copies. His succeeding solo try,
A Procura da Batida Perfeita (Looking at for the Perfect Beat), was released in 2003. With this record album, D2 became a gravid name in the Brazilian panorama, winning the assorted awards he was nominative for. The record album was released in Europe, the United States, and Asia, thereby porta the doors to international touring. D2 made basketball team European tours, playing in the most notable festivals, including Womex, Montreux, Roskilde, and Reading, as well as such traditional venues as Cité de la Musique in Paris. The tremendous success of the album was also creditworthy for the spill of a objective DVD around its creation.
In 2004, D2 reinvented himself over again. Using his possess music as a template and deconstructing the beat and the batucada, he put a isthmus of 23 musicians onstage, efficaciously transcription an orchestra to "disconnect" the rap music and create acoustic versions of his songs for a Brazilian
MTV Unplugged see. Performed bouncy with laboured percussion and an splendid load-bearing isthmus, there was a contagious sound and depth to his music. D2 and the band afterwards embarked on respective earth tours, and he collected substantial during his travels for the 15-track acquittance
Meu Samba É Assim (My Samba Is Like This). Marcelo D2 has revolutionized the Brazilian hip-hop scene, incorporating Latin influences, ingenious lyrics, and a set of attitude. Critics and fans likewise regularly await his new releases with anticipation.
