Dany Roland
| Dany Roland | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Daniel David Roland Pinto |
| Born |
February 9, 1962 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Genres | New wave, synthpop, alternative rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, actor, sound designer, film director, record producer |
| Instruments | Drums, electric guitar |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Labels | Epic Records, Adrenaline Records, Trama, Dubas |
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Daniel "Dany" David Roland Pinto (born February 9, 1962) is an Argentine-born Brazilian musician, actor, sound designer, film director and record producer, famous for being the drummer of the popular new wave band Metrô and for his collaborations with wife Bia Lessa.
Roland was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 9, 1962; his parents were Egyptian Jews of French, Italian and Portuguese descent who emigrated to Argentina from Alexandria in the late 1950s. In 1963, when he was 1 year old, his family moved to São Paulo, Brazil, where after growing up he learned how to play the drums and the electric guitar, and studied Music and Journalism at the PUC-SP, but did not finish either course.
In 1978 he founded, alongside his schoolmates of the Lycée Pasteur in São Paulo Virginie Boutaud, Alec Haiat, Xavier Leblanc, Yann Laouenan and Marcel Zimberg, the experimental/progressive rock band A Gota Suspensa, which released a self-titled album in 1983; in the following year, A Gota Suspensa changed its name to Metrô, acquiring higher fame. Roland left Metrô in 1987, a couple of months after the release of their second album, A Mão de Mao, to pursue other musical projects; in the following year, Metrô split up. Alongside his former Metrô bandmate Xavier Leblanc Roland briefly played for the experimental rock band Okotô, and after moving to Brussels, Belgium in the early 1990s with Yann Laouenan, he founded the alternative rock band The Passengers (not to be mistaken with an earlier, also Belgian band formed in the late 1970s which later came to be known as The Names) alongside Diako Diakoff, Denis Moulin, TC and Jack Roskam; they released a fairly successful eponymous album in 1992.
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