Member Since: 02/11/2006
Band Website: http://vangeleonel.blogspot.com/
Band Members: solo artist, retired singer & musician, now an active writer and lesbian feminist activist
(see song lyrics for info on band members)
Influences: Tropicália, Cartola, Lupicìnio Rodrigues, Assis Valente, Noel Rosa, Carmen Miranda, The Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithfull, Nico, Beatles, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Ma Rainey, Dolores Duran, Cole Porter, Edith Piaf, Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethania, Gilberto Gil, Rita Lee, Jorge Mautner, Jorge Benjor, Elvis Presley, Marina, Angela RoRo, Cattanooga Cats (TV cartoon band), The Banana Splits (TV cartoon show band), Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Monkeys, Patti Smith, Suzy Quatro, Annie Lennox, The Jackson 5, The Carpenters, Julie London, The Smiths, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Clash, The Go-Go´s, PiL, Nina Hagen, Elton John, The Who, Klaus Nomi, Yoko Ono, Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles, Emily Dickinson, Katherine Mansfield, Gertrude Stein, Sappho, Susan Sontag, Marguerite Yourcenar, Anais Nin, Marcel Proust, Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, Clarice Lispector, CecÃlia Meirelles, Machado de Assis, Souzandrade, Jorge Amado, Charles Darwin, Joana D´Arc, Sarah B. Hrdy, Donna Haraway, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Mann, etc.
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Record Label: ex-CBS, ex-Sony, ex-Medusa Records, now unsigned
Type of Label: Indie