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Legião Urbana

January 01, 1970

For Legião Urbana's self-titled debut album, see Legião Urbana (album).

Legião Urbana (Portuguese for Urban Legion) was a Brazilian rock band formed in 1982 in Brasília, Distrito Federal. The band primarily consisted of Renato Russo (vocals, bass and keyboards), Dado Villa-Lobos (guitar) and Marcelo Bonfá (drums). In its earlier days, Legião Urbana also had a full-time bassist, Renato Rocha, but he left the band due to creative divergences.

Legião Urbana
"Que País é Este" Album Cover
Background information
OriginBrasília, DF, Brazil
Genres
Years active1982 - 1996
LabelsEMI
Past membersRenato Russo
Dado Villa-Lobos
Marcelo Bonfá
Renato Rocha
Websitewww.legiaourbana.com.br

While Legião Urbana disbanded officially in 1996, after frontman Renato Russo's death,[1] it is one of the most famous Brazilian rock bands, alongside Os Mutantes, Titãs, Os Paralamas do Sucesso, and Barão Vermelho.[2]

History edit

The beginning edit

Renato Russo (born Renato Manfredini, Jr.) founded Legião Urbana in 1982 in Brasília, after leaving his previous band Aborto Elétrico ("Electric Abortion"). Aborto Elétrico broke up due to repeated disagreements between Russo and brothers Flávio and Fê Lemos, his bandmates.[3] After Aborto Elétrico split and Russo created Legião Urbana, the two brothers would also go on to found Capital Inicial.[4]

Legião Urbana was initially formed by Renato Russo (vocals and bass) Marcelo Bonfá (drums), Eduardo Paraná (guitars) and Paulo Paulista (keyboards), but Paraná and Paulista would quickly leave the band. Ico Ouro Preto replaced Paraná as the guitarist. Dado Villa-Lobos replaced Ouro Preto in 1983. In the beginning of 1984, Renato Rocha joined the group as the bass player. Renato Russo would then focus on the vocals. He also played keyboards and acoustic guitar.

Many elements helped shape the identity of Legião Urbana. Russo was heavily influenced by The Smiths and U2.[5]

Thematically, Russo and the other members were also influenced by literature, especially that of Portuguese poet Luís de Camões, whose poetry is featured in more than one of the band's songs.

Legião Urbana edit

Legião Urbana's self-titled first album was recorded and released in 1985. The album included the hits "Será" ("Could It Be"), "Ainda É Cedo" ("It's Still Early") and "Geração Coca-Cola" ("Coca-Cola Generation"). The album was released on the EMI label, and the band would stay with this record label for their entire career, with both positive and negative experiences.[6]

Dois edit

In 1986, the band released Dois ("Two" – the album was planned to have two discs, but EMI refused to do it). The lyrics, melodies and personality of Renato Russo brought the band considerable notoriety in Brazil, especially among the younger generation which had grown up under the fear of the authoritarian Brazilian Military Dictatorship (1964–1985). The songs Tempo Perdido ("Lost Time"), Quase sem Querer ("Almost by Accident"), Eduardo e Mônica, Andrea Doria and "Índios" ('"Indians"') were particularly popular. The song "Indios" is particularly culturally relevant as it mentions Brazil's troubled history with indigenous people, and remains one of the band's most popular songs to this day.

Que País É Este edit

The band's success was cemented in 1987, with Que País É Este ("What Country Is This"). They developed a devoted following, and the band came to carry the nickname "Religião Urbana" (meaning "Urban Religion"), something Renato Russo professed to hate.

This was the heaviest album Legião Urbana released during its existence, the only one which can be classified as punk rock. Two of the songs, "Conexão Amazônica" ("Amazonic Connection" – censored to contain heavy texts about drug trafficking and its routes via the Amazon, and critical intellectuals.) and the Dylan-esque "Faroeste Caboclo" – the latter with 168 different lines and ten minutes long – were censored because they contained what was then considered obscene content. "Faroeste Caboclo" was a huge success, nevertheless. Others, such as Que País é Este? ("What Country Is This?"), Eu Sei ("I Know"), Química ("Chemistry"), Angra dos Reis (a reference to a homonymous nuclear power plant that exists in Brazil) and Mais do Mesmo ("More of the Same") were hits.

In the first concert in Brasília after the release of their first album, 200 people were wounded in a riot. The band would never again perform publicly in Brasília, the city from which Russo and other band members hailed.

As Quatro Estações edit

In 1989, before the release of As Quatro Estações ("The Four Seasons"), Renato Rocha decided to quit under pressure from Bonfá and Villa-Lobos.[7] Russo returned to play bass, but he joined three touring musicians (bassist Bruno Araújo, keyboardist Mu Carvalho and guitarist Fred Nascimento). Although this album had the most financial success of any released by the group (and nearly every song on the disc garnered significant radio play), many fans disliked the big changes in the band's style, especially punk rock fans. The songs would now talk about love and soul. "Pais e Filhos" ("Parents and children"), about broken, intact, happy and dysfunctional families, included the lyrics "É preciso amar/as pessoas como se não houvesse amanhã/Porque se você parar/pra pensar/Na verdade não há" ("We must love people as if there was no tomorrow/Because if you stop to think about it/There really isn't").

1990s edit

V was released in December 1991, considered the band's darkest and most introspective album until then; at this point, the band was appearing less and less in public, doing only a few (very contentious) concerts. The album ran a long gamut of emotions and topics, with songs about drug abuse, the confused sentiments of a soul consecrated to a life of celibacy, and even the bizarre, classic French film The Golden Age.

"Metal Contra as Nuvens" ("Metal Against the Clouds") clocked in at 11 minutes and is the longest song ever recorded by the band. Some of the more popular entries on the album are O Teatro dos Vampiros ("The Theater of the Vampires"), Sereníssima ("Most Serene"), Vento no Litoral ("Coastal Wind"), and O Mundo Anda Tão Complicado ("The World Has Been So Complicated"). One year after V, EMI released Música P/ Acampamentos (Music 4 Camping), which is a compilation of rarities and live material. A previously unreleased song, A Canção do Senhor da Guerra ("The Warlord's Song"), which was to be in Dois and was rejected by EMI, turned into an immediate hit. The album had got featuring keyboardist Carlos Trilha and bassist Bruno Araújo, later the recording, Araújo left the band, and joined bassist Tavinho Fialho and guitarist Sérgio Serra.

The band released O Descobrimento do Brasil ("The Discovery of Brazil", alluding both to Cabral's discovery and to a new look at Brazil and its problems) in November 1993. "Giz" ("Chalk"), "Perfeição" ("Perfection"), "Vinte e Nove" ("Twenty Nine"), "Vamos Fazer um Filme" ("Let's Make A Movie") and "La Nuova Gioventù" (Italian for "The New Youth") are the main hits of the CD, though the album as a whole received a rather chilly critical reception.

"Perfeição" was a scathing rebuke of Brazilian government and society, inviting the listener to celebrate everything stupid, evil and ugly about the country. The song compares Brazil to a house of marked cards, a den of thieves, and a State that is not a nation, but the song explodes any pretensions of moral superiority towards the end by remarking on, above all else, the stupidity of the person singing the song. After the energy and anger of the main body of the song, this final section is almost wistful. The music continues to race ahead, but the vocal seems to be trying to pull it back, simultaneously celebrating and undercutting the belief that perfection is achievable, at least in the heart. The song's popular success is emblematic of the political changes that had taken place in Brazil since the band's inception: it certainly could not have been distributed during the days of Brazil's military dictatorship.

The band members confessed that the track "Giz" was one of Renato Russo's favorite songs among all Legião Urbana's discography.

The same year, Russo released a solo album in English, The Stonewall Celebration Concert.

A Tempestade, ou O Livro dos Dias ("The Storm" or "The Book of Days") was recorded between January and June 1996 and released on 20 September 1996. This would be the last album released before Renato Russo's death less than a month later. This album surpassed V in terms of introspection and sadness in the lyrics, probably related to the state of Russo's health.

Disbanding edit

In January 1995 the band performed its last concert. In December Renato Russo released his second solo album, Equilíbrio Distante. A posthumous album recorded between January and June 1996 and released on 18 July 1997. Most of the tracks are leftovers from A Tempestade, which was originally planned as a double album. Uma Outra Estação ("Another Season") was completed by the remaining members of the band plus keyboardist Carlos Trilha and guitarist Tom Capone.[8]

Acústico MTV: Legião Urbana is an MTV Unplugged album that was recorded on 28 January 1992 and released on 27 October 1999.

In September 1996 the band released its last album with Renato Russo still alive: A Tempestade. The CD has a very sad tone, directly connected to the fact that Russo and his health were deteriorating very quickly, both psychologically and physically.[9]

Renato Russo would die one month after the release of Tempestade, on 11 October 1996, from an AIDS-related illness. Eleven days later, Bonfá and Villa-Lobos announced that the band was officially disbanded.

Uma Outra Estação was released in June 1997 and is the last album with previously unreleased songs, produced and finished by Villa-Lobos.[10] In October 1999 EMI released a Live album, Acústico MTV, a concert which was presented on MTV Brasil in 1992. Another two albums, As Quatro Estações Ao Vivo and Como É Que Se Diz Eu Te Amo, are best-of compilations that achieved relative success among the fans and people whose interest in Legião Urbana grew after the death of Russo.

Discography edit

Studio albums edit

Live albums edit

Compilation albums edit

Members edit

Last line-up edit

Past members edit

  • Renato Rocha: bass (1984 - 1989; died 2015)
  • Eduardo Paraná: guitars (1982)
  • Ico Ouro Preto: guitars (1982 - 1983)
  • Paulo Paulista: keyboards (1982)

Timeline edit

References edit

  1. ^ Do próprio bolso. "1982 – 2012: 30 anos de Legião Urbana" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  2. ^ Zun. (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  3. ^ Escola contemporânea. "Os Filhos da Revolução" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Jovens dos anos 80. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  4. ^ Capital Inicial. (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 7 May 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  5. ^ Zero Hora (5 April 2011). "Dado Villa-Lobos fala fala sobre a influência do U2 em Legião Urbana" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  6. ^ Dicionário Cravo Alvim. "Renato Russo-biografia". Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  7. ^ VILLA-LOBOS, Dado. DEMIER, Felipe; MATTOS, Rômulo. "Dado Villa-Lobos: Memórias De Um Legionário". 1ª edição. Rio De Janeiro. Brasil. Mauad X, 2015. Pág. 158.
  8. ^ VILLA-LOBOS, Dado. DEMIER, Felipe; MATTOS, Rômulo. "Dado Villa-Lobos: Memórias De Um Legionário". 1ª edição. Rio De Janeiro. Brasil. Mauad X, 2015. Pág. 248
  9. ^ "Não foi tempo perdido – Cultura – Estadão". estadao.com.br.
  10. ^ VILLA-LOBOS, Dado. DEMIER, Felipe; MATTOS, Rômulo. "Dado Villa-Lobos: Memórias De Um Legionário". 1ª edição. Rio De Janeiro. Brasil. Mauad X, 2015. Pág. 248

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Marcelo Bonfa drums In its earlier days Legiao Urbana also had a full time bassist Renato Rocha but he left the band due to creative divergences Legiao Urbana Que Pais e Este Album CoverBackground informationOriginBrasilia DF BrazilGenresPost punkart rockfolk rockjangle popprogressive rockYears active1982 1996LabelsEMIPast membersRenato RussoDado Villa LobosMarcelo BonfaRenato RochaWebsitewww wbr legiaourbana wbr com wbr br While Legiao Urbana disbanded officially in 1996 after frontman Renato Russo s death 1 it is one of the most famous Brazilian rock bands alongside Os Mutantes Titas Os Paralamas do Sucesso and Barao Vermelho 2 Contents 1 History 1 1 The beginning 1 2 Legiao Urbana 1 3 Dois 1 4 Que Pais E Este 1 5 As Quatro Estacoes 1 6 1990s 1 7 Disbanding 2 Discography 2 1 Studio albums 2 2 Live albums 2 3 Compilation albums 3 Members 3 1 Last line up 3 2 Past members 3 3 Timeline 4 References 5 External linksHistory editThe beginning edit Renato Russo born Renato Manfredini Jr founded Legiao Urbana in 1982 in Brasilia after leaving his previous band Aborto Eletrico Electric Abortion Aborto Eletrico broke up due to repeated disagreements between Russo and brothers Flavio and Fe Lemos his bandmates 3 After Aborto Eletrico split and Russo created Legiao Urbana the two brothers would also go on to found Capital Inicial 4 Legiao Urbana was initially formed by Renato Russo vocals and bass Marcelo Bonfa drums Eduardo Parana guitars and Paulo Paulista keyboards but Parana and Paulista would quickly leave the band Ico Ouro Preto replaced Parana as the guitarist Dado Villa Lobos replaced Ouro Preto in 1983 In the beginning of 1984 Renato Rocha joined the group as the bass player Renato Russo would then focus on the vocals He also played keyboards and acoustic guitar Many elements helped shape the identity of Legiao Urbana Russo was heavily influenced by The Smiths and U2 5 Thematically Russo and the other members were also influenced by literature especially that of Portuguese poet Luis de Camoes whose poetry is featured in more than one of the band s songs Legiao Urbana edit Legiao Urbana s self titled first album was recorded and released in 1985 The album included the hits Sera Could It Be Ainda E Cedo It s Still Early and Geracao Coca Cola Coca Cola Generation The album was released on the EMI label and the band would stay with this record label for their entire career with both positive and negative experiences 6 Dois edit In 1986 the band released Dois Two the album was planned to have two discs but EMI refused to do it The lyrics melodies and personality of Renato Russo brought the band considerable notoriety in Brazil especially among the younger generation which had grown up under the fear of the authoritarian Brazilian Military Dictatorship 1964 1985 The songs Tempo Perdido Lost Time Quase sem Querer Almost by Accident Eduardo e Monica Andrea Doria and Indios Indians were particularly popular The song Indios is particularly culturally relevant as it mentions Brazil s troubled history with indigenous people and remains one of the band s most popular songs to this day Que Pais E Este edit The band s success was cemented in 1987 with Que Pais E Este What Country Is This They developed a devoted following and the band came to carry the nickname Religiao Urbana meaning Urban Religion something Renato Russo professed to hate This was the heaviest album Legiao Urbana released during its existence the only one which can be classified as punk rock Two of the songs Conexao Amazonica Amazonic Connection censored to contain heavy texts about drug trafficking and its routes via the Amazon and critical intellectuals and the Dylan esque Faroeste Caboclo the latter with 168 different lines and ten minutes long were censored because they contained what was then considered obscene content Faroeste Caboclo was a huge success nevertheless Others such as Que Pais e Este What Country Is This Eu Sei I Know Quimica Chemistry Angra dos Reis a reference to a homonymous nuclear power plant that exists in Brazil and Mais do Mesmo More of the Same were hits In the first concert in Brasilia after the release of their first album 200 people were wounded in a riot The band would never again perform publicly in Brasilia the city from which Russo and other band members hailed As Quatro Estacoes edit In 1989 before the release of As Quatro Estacoes The Four Seasons Renato Rocha decided to quit under pressure from Bonfa and Villa Lobos 7 Russo returned to play bass but he joined three touring musicians bassist Bruno Araujo keyboardist Mu Carvalho and guitarist Fred Nascimento Although this album had the most financial success of any released by the group and nearly every song on the disc garnered significant radio play many fans disliked the big changes in the band s style especially punk rock fans The songs would now talk about love and soul Pais e Filhos Parents and children about broken intact happy and dysfunctional families included the lyrics E preciso amar as pessoas como se nao houvesse amanha Porque se voce parar pra pensar Na verdade nao ha We must love people as if there was no tomorrow Because if you stop to think about it There really isn t 1990s edit V was released in December 1991 considered the band s darkest and most introspective album until then at this point the band was appearing less and less in public doing only a few very contentious concerts The album ran a long gamut of emotions and topics with songs about drug abuse the confused sentiments of a soul consecrated to a life of celibacy and even the bizarre classic French film The Golden Age Metal Contra as Nuvens Metal Against the Clouds clocked in at 11 minutes and is the longest song ever recorded by the band Some of the more popular entries on the album are O Teatro dos Vampiros The Theater of the Vampires Serenissima Most Serene Vento no Litoral Coastal Wind and O Mundo Anda Tao Complicado The World Has Been So Complicated One year after V EMI released Musica P Acampamentos Music 4 Camping which is a compilation of rarities and live material A previously unreleased song A Cancao do Senhor da Guerra The Warlord s Song which was to be in Dois and was rejected by EMI turned into an immediate hit The album had got featuring keyboardist Carlos Trilha and bassist Bruno Araujo later the recording Araujo left the band and joined bassist Tavinho Fialho and guitarist Sergio Serra The band released O Descobrimento do Brasil The Discovery of Brazil alluding both to Cabral s discovery and to a new look at Brazil and its problems in November 1993 Giz Chalk Perfeicao Perfection Vinte e Nove Twenty Nine Vamos Fazer um Filme Let s Make A Movie and La Nuova Gioventu Italian for The New Youth are the main hits of the CD though the album as a whole received a rather chilly critical reception Perfeicao was a scathing rebuke of Brazilian government and society inviting the listener to celebrate everything stupid evil and ugly about the country The song compares Brazil to a house of marked cards a den of thieves and a State that is not a nation but the song explodes any pretensions of moral superiority towards the end by remarking on above all else the stupidity of the person singing the song After the energy and anger of the main body of the song this final section is almost wistful The music continues to race ahead but the vocal seems to be trying to pull it back simultaneously celebrating and undercutting the belief that perfection is achievable at least in the heart The song s popular success is emblematic of the political changes that had taken place in Brazil since the band s inception it certainly could not have been distributed during the days of Brazil s military dictatorship The band members confessed that the track Giz was one of Renato Russo s favorite songs among all Legiao Urbana s discography The same year Russo released a solo album in English The Stonewall Celebration Concert A Tempestade ou O Livro dos Dias The Storm or The Book of Days was recorded between January and June 1996 and released on 20 September 1996 This would be the last album released before Renato Russo s death less than a month later This album surpassed V in terms of introspection and sadness in the lyrics probably related to the state of Russo s health Disbanding edit In January 1995 the band performed its last concert In December Renato Russo released his second solo album Equilibrio Distante A posthumous album recorded between January and June 1996 and released on 18 July 1997 Most of the tracks are leftovers from A Tempestade which was originally planned as a double album Uma Outra Estacao Another Season was completed by the remaining members of the band plus keyboardist Carlos Trilha and guitarist Tom Capone 8 Acustico MTV Legiao Urbana is an MTV Unplugged album that was recorded on 28 January 1992 and released on 27 October 1999 In September 1996 the band released its last album with Renato Russo still alive A Tempestade The CD has a very sad tone directly connected to the fact that Russo and his health were deteriorating very quickly both psychologically and physically 9 Renato Russo would die one month after the release of Tempestade on 11 October 1996 from an AIDS related illness Eleven days later Bonfa and Villa Lobos announced that the band was officially disbanded Uma Outra Estacao was released in June 1997 and is the last album with previously unreleased songs produced and finished by Villa Lobos 10 In October 1999 EMI released a Live album Acustico MTV a concert which was presented on MTV Brasil in 1992 Another two albums As Quatro Estacoes Ao Vivo and Como E Que Se Diz Eu Te Amo are best of compilations that achieved relative success among the fans and people whose interest in Legiao Urbana grew after the death of Russo Discography editStudio albums edit 1985 Legiao Urbana 1986 Dois 1987 Que Pais E Este 1989 As Quatro Estacoes 1991 V 1993 O Descobrimento do Brasil 1996 A Tempestade ou O Livro dos Dias 1997 Uma Outra Estacao Live albums edit 1999 Acustico MTV Legiao Urbana 2001 Como E Que Se Diz Eu te Amo 2004 As Quatro Estacoes ao Vivo Compilation albums edit 1992 Musica P Acampamentos 1998 Mais do MesmoMembers editLast line up edit Renato Russo bass 1982 1984 1989 1996 electric guitar 1984 1989 keyboards 1982 1996 lead vocals acoustic guitar 1982 1996 died 1996 Marcelo Bonfa drums percussion 1982 1996 ocarina keyboards 1989 1996 Dado Villa Lobos electric guitar 1983 1996 mandolin dobro 1989 1996 Carlos Trilha piano Hammond organ programming 1996 1997 Past members edit Renato Rocha bass 1984 1989 died 2015 Eduardo Parana guitars 1982 Ico Ouro Preto guitars 1982 1983 Paulo Paulista keyboards 1982 Timeline editReferences edit Do proprio bolso 1982 2012 30 anos de Legiao Urbana in Portuguese Retrieved 28 September 2018 Zun Rock nacional dos Anos 80 in Portuguese Archived from the original on 14 October 2012 Retrieved 28 September 2018 Escola contemporanea Os Filhos da Revolucao PDF in Portuguese Jovens dos anos 80 Retrieved 28 September 2018 Capital Inicial Fe Lemos in Portuguese Archived from the original on 7 May 2012 Retrieved 28 September 2018 Zero Hora 5 April 2011 Dado Villa Lobos fala fala sobre a influencia do U2 em Legiao Urbana in Portuguese Retrieved 28 September 2018 Dicionario Cravo Alvim Renato Russo biografia Retrieved 28 September 2018 VILLA LOBOS Dado DEMIER Felipe MATTOS Romulo Dado Villa Lobos Memorias De Um Legionario 1ª edicao Rio De Janeiro Brasil Mauad X 2015 Pag 158 VILLA LOBOS Dado DEMIER Felipe MATTOS Romulo Dado Villa Lobos Memorias De Um Legionario 1ª edicao Rio De Janeiro Brasil Mauad X 2015 Pag 248 Nao foi tempo perdido Cultura Estadao estadao com br VILLA LOBOS Dado DEMIER Felipe MATTOS Romulo Dado Villa Lobos Memorias De Um Legionario 1ª edicao Rio De Janeiro Brasil Mauad X 2015 Pag 248External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Legiao Urbana Official website Legiao Urbana 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