Hugo Ferreira
| Hugo Ferreira | |
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Ferreira performing with Tantric in September 2009
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Hugo Ferreira |
| Born |
March 7, 1974 Luanda, Portuguese Angola |
| Origin |
Hudson, Massachusetts, United States Detroit, Michigan, US Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
| Genres |
Alternative Metal Post-grunge Hard rock |
| Occupation(s) | Rock musician, singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, keyboards |
| Years active | 1994 - present |
| Labels | Maverick Records (1999-2006) Silent Majority Group (2007-2010)Pavement (2013-present) |
| Associated acts | Merge, Tantric, Todd Whitener, Austin Winkler |
| Website | www |
Hugo Ferreira (born March 7, 1974) is a Portuguese-American African-born singer/songwriter musician. He is best known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the American rock band Tantric.
Hugo Ferreira was born on March 7, 1974 in Luanda, Angola, which at the time was a Portuguese colony, to Portuguese colonial settlers. After the independence of Angola in 1975, his family moved to Hudson, Massachusetts in the United States. Hugo began playing the piano at around age 5. According to his biography, he began thinking about writing and composing music at 14 years of age.
Before becoming a more mainstream artist, Ferreira was a member of wedding bands, dance music groups, "off-tune" rock groups, and Portuguese folklore groups. After graduating from Hudson High School in 1992, he moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he started the band Merge. In the course of the next four years, the band self-released a record and a six-song tape.
After being fired from Days of the New in November 1999 guitarist Todd Whitener, bassist Jesse Vest and drummer Matt Taul began searching for a new vocalist for a band the very next day after being fired. Ferreira, being somewhat friends with the members of Days of the New after touring with them while in his band Merge seemed to make sense for him to audition for the band Whitener, Vest and Taul were forming. Ferreira auditioned and got accepted into the band in March 1999.
Soon after being accepted into the band Ferreira moved to Louisville, Kentucky to record demos with his new bandmates under the moniker Carbon 14 (C-14). They later realized that bands with numbers in their names were played out and changed the band name to Tantric after Buddhist sexual practices.
Ferreira commented on his change of bands saying his reason for joining was he felt he needed a change. He also said "the bass player was working at Hooters cooking wings, the guitarist was picking up what he could, and you don't want to know what the drummer was doing," Ferreira said with a laugh.
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