About Me
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Kiko Perrone is a musician from São Paulo.INSTRUMENTS AND FUNCTIONS: guitar, bass guitar, acoustic nylon gt. and he also sings, produces, arranges, writes songs and more.Kiko Perrone started playing in 1993 and has performed at the best venues in his home town.In 1997 he started working with Tchorta and Guilherme Boratto, the electronic music producers. The Boratto brothers have had international label clients such as The Ministry of Sound and Irma Records, Kompact, among others.They produced the talented Jamaican singer Gabrielle Harban and it was thanks to them that one of her songs was used in a famous Globo soap opera in Brazil "Love me Baby" (Borattos / Harban / Perrone) - novela 'era uma vez' 1998.Kiko Perrone also produced an album with Charles Negrita (who used to play with David Byrne). They made a CD called Batucada Brasileira, Vol. 1 (CPC-Umes, 1999), showcasing many beats, rhythms and melodies from all parts of Brazil.In august 2002 he joined the samba big band 'pau dagua' in sao paulo. this great group of musicians friends recorded an independent album that was released in april 2005, called 'viva a liberdade'.In 2003 Kiko Perrone co-produced a drum'n'bass album for Kaleidoscopio, Tem que valer, (Som Livre/Mega Music) that became a hit in Brazil. The single 'você me apareceu' by Samuel Braga, arrangements by Kiko and Tchorta, was the third most played song in italy in 2004. On the following year, the song "Feliz de Novo" (by Kiko Perrone) was chosen by 'Irma records' to play on the summer, in Italy. This year, Kaleidoscpio's cd was released in whole Europe by Warner Music and Japan as well.Kiko Perrone had lived in London from June 2003 to jan 08, where he has played with many people and all sorts of music. He formed his own original's band, along with KITA STEUER, Kleyton Vithau and Charlie Lewis called 'Mandinga'. Their EP was released on October 2005.Check the profile of 'MANDINGA' at this site.In 2006 and 2007 he'd been writing and compiling songs and helping with the CDS of the singers Rebeca Vallim (produced by Kiko, Pedro Candela 'lyricist' Rebeca and Kaw Regis)( http://www.rebecavallim.cjb.net , and Leandra Varanda www.leandravaranda.com (produced by Johnatan Preiss ).
He recorded acoustic and electric guitar on 3 tracks, for Zeu Azevedo album in july.In january of 2008 Kiko returned to live in Sao Paulo, Brasil.To continue his career as song writer / guitarist in Brasil. He's back at the Pau Dagua gigs, every sunday at Vila Madalena's O do Borogodo Bar. As well as writing songs with Pedro Candela and house tracks with Tchorta Boratto (collaborating on the albuns of Paulinho Boghosian and Mario Fischetti). He's been preparing his debut solo album, to be launched on the 2nd semester of 2008. He intends to showcase the many faces of his music , in sambas, forros, afoxes, pops and funks... two songs of the album were written by kiko and marcelo andrade ('vestido azul' and 'filho do cais'). anselmo netto, charlie, kita, kleyton, tamar, participated on the recordings, along with marcelo and hugo ise producing engineering and mixing the tracks (started in 2007). A samba track was recorded in SP (april 08) for the album, called 'talvez cure' with the musicians ricardo valverde (perc), luizinho 7 cordas(gt), joao poleto(flute), andrezinho, marcel ortiz, mara rubia and carol.
