Wed, Nov 18, 2009

A chat with the Brothers of Brazil

It might seem strange, but the power duo playing a rousing version of punked up Bossa Nova, finds England as a crossroads for Supla and Joao Suplicy.

Joao’s passion led him to the classic Rio de Janeiro samba, while Supla’s blunt expression hit home in the punk rock of Sao Paulo. Only years later would their styles converge. The duo reaches Guanabara on the evening of Tuesday, December 1st.

1. Do you think that the band is becoming a success because of the difference between you two or despite that dissimilarity?

We think is definitely because of the difference between the two of us. That’s where the spark is.

2. At the beginning, the only possible music that you both could agree to play was The Beatles. Have you found more in common working together? Are you more alike than you used to think before?

Oh yeah, for our tv show in Brazil we get to play all kinds of styles of music, like Ramones, Tom Jobim, Bob Marley, Jorge Benjor, The Clash… We ‘ve found our own way to perform many different types of music and still sound like Brothers of Brazil. By the way, we have a song called “I hate the Beatles” in our album.

3. The success in Europe and USA came as great news. Do you think this music has more appeal to the international market? How is it doing in Brazil?

We believe the music we do is for everywhere, including Brazil of course, where we have the album out in the magazine stores and it sold over 10.000 copies of it.

4. Is Brothers of Brazil the main work for both of you nowadays or does your solo careers remain being more important?

Brothers of Brazil is the main work for both of us nowadays.

5. You are on the road with the first album. Any plans for a new one?

We’ve been already working on new songs, but we think there is a lot of work to be done to promote this first CD yet.

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