Guitarist for more than 15 years, Man-O has faced a wide variety of musical projects. He has explored various types of music like Rock and Metal with Marcelo Barbosa; Funk, Blues and Brasilian Popular music with Hugo Maia. Has been deeply into Brasilian Popular Music with Ivo Moura and met Jazz & Fusion with Genil de Castro.
With all this background, Man-O has played many concerts in Brasilia, Florianopolis, Porto Alegre and Salvador; Barcelona, Milan and London too, that goes from Rock and Reggae and from Blues to SmoothJazz.
He has been in two official bands: Cockpit and BigG.The first one, at he age of seventeen, was a mix of Reggae, Ska and Rock. The presentations were not only a Band Show, but an entertainament and happy party that played around with the audience. Eleven musicians formed the band, Pizarro was the solo guitarist and made arrangements and also the production and recordings. Cockpit has 1 album and one video-clip that appeared on MTV Demo Brasil.
In the second band BigG, now at the age of 21, he played Alternative and Progressive Rock. With only four musicians the aggressive way to play that Rock, brought to this band relative success. BigG played in music festivals in Brasilia and Salvador-Bahia where Man-O’s distortion was louder and got the message across.
Manoel Pizarro Collares(Man-O) has produced a few artists in Brazil, as Italo Coutinho from the extinct Grupo Domino. Soon the track was recorded, he also helped the video director Valerio Azevedo, who was the first Brazilian to win the MTV Awards in the USA, to shoot its video-clip. With that, Pizarro learned a lot about video-recording and got himself enough experience.
In the year of 2005 he played with Thiago Fernandes an acoustic project called Swing On This. Brazilian and international tunes were part of their set. They shared the stage with Capitao do Cerrado and Digao from Raimundos among others.
Still in Brazil, he developed a new work blending the guitar sound with a wide range of electronic musical styles such as: House, Progressive, Electro, Trance and Lounge. With this innovation he has already impressed the audience of Eletronic Music.
Pizarro has just started to gig around the world. He has traveled to Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. Now, based in London, he has played with incredible musicians from all around the globe. Mixing his background in different musical projects, Pizarro still has time to continue with your own musical research that, nowadays, explores the digital and electronic without forget the analogic and acoustic worlds.
Man-O plays with Rafael Pesce trio:
Rafael Pesce: guitar and vocals
Ulyssis Bezerra: Percussion
Man-O: guitars
And also supporting the songwriter/singer Cheri D'Avino (http://www.myspace.com/cherie):
In his free time writes lyrics and instrumental compositions. Besides the guitar, Man-O plays drum, percussion, bass and acoustic guitar.
So, keep tunned...
Man-o's Gear:
1) Ibanez JEM 555 Steve Vai's signature DiMarzio Evolution pickups
2) Gibson Les Paul Custom Black 90's
3) Ibanez 6 steel strings
4) Crafter 12 - steel strings
5) Takamine 6 Nylon strings
5) Digitech 2120 Artists Signature, control one.
Vox Wha-wha
Boss Sustainer/compressor
6) Fender Prosonic 50's Limited Edition - 50w rms.
Man-O uses Dean Markley strings.
