Brazilian rock
| Brazilian rock | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | Rock, rock and roll, blues, brazilian folk music |
| Cultural origins | Brazil in the late 1950s; fusion genres from the late 1960s |
| Typical instruments | Electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion, acoustic guitar, keyboards |
| Derivative forms | Tropicália |
| Subgenres | |
| Brazilian thrash metal | |
| Fusion genres | |
| Samba rock, , Mangue Beat, . | |
| Regional scenes | |
| Brasília (1980-1996) | |
Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese.
Rock entered the Brazilian music scene in 1956, with the screening of the film The Blackboard Jungle, featuring Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", which would later be covered in Portuguese by Nora Ney.
The electric guitar was already used in Brazil in 1948, in Salvador carnival bloc of . They invented the famous "pau elétrico" (English: "electric stick"), the first electric guitar without microphonic feedback, with its typical acute color characteristic and sustained sound, no more similar to the previous jazzistic electric guitar models (then they developed another with two arms) and in 1949 they played carnival songs with this guitar at the first time in an open car named then "Trio Elétrico" on the Salvador streets (today in the big trucks with a very robust sound).
Currently, there are bands that sing in English, such as: Sepultura, Angra, Viper, Krisiun, Cambriana, Garage Fuzz, Far From Alaska, The Moondogs (Beatles cover), Kita, Move Over, Wannabe Jalva, Charlie Brown Jr, and so on.
In 1957 wrote the first original rock 'n' roll song Rock and roll em Copacabana, recorded by Cauby Peixoto and #52 on the year's charts.
In Brazil many bands continued to perform translations of English lyrics, though many avoided this problem by playing instrumental rock. Inspired by such instrumental bands Duane Eddy and The Champs, 1958 saw the release of the first Brazilian instrumental rock song, Here's the Blue Jean Rockers by The Blue Jean Rockers. Later that year, Bolão & His Rockettes recorded the first purely instrumental LP. This helped make rock the most popular style of Brazilian youth music. More bands, like The Avalons, , The Rebels, , The Jet Blacks, The Pops, Os Populares, The Bells, The Lions and The Youngs, arose.
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