Otto (singer)

Otto
Otto performing at the Virada Cultural of Votuporanga in 2015
Background information
Birth name	Otto Maximiliano Pereira de Cordeiro Ferreira
Born	(1968-06-28) June 28, 1968 (age 48) Belo Jardim, Pernambuco, Brazil
Genres	Mangue Bit, MPB, rock, electronica
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, drummer, actor, TV presenter
Instruments	Vocals, drums
Years active	1984–present
Labels	Trama, Nublu Records, Deckdisc
Associated acts	Mundo Livre S/A, Julieta Venegas

Otto Maximiliano Pereira de Cordeiro Ferreira (born June 28, 1968), known mononymously as Otto, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, drummer, and television actor and presenter, famous for being one of the founding members of the pioneering Mangue Bit band Mundo Livre S/A, of which he served as its drummer from 1984 to 1996.

Otto was born in Belo Jardim, Pernambuco, on June 28, 1968, and is of Dutch and Native Brazilian descent. During his early teens he moved to Recife, where he befriended Chico Science and Fred 04; with the latter he would form Mundo Livre S/A, one of the first Mangue Bit bands ever alongside Science's Nação Zumbi. Otto provided drums for Mundo Livre S/A's first two studio albums, until leaving the band in 1996 to pursue a solo career.

In 1998 Otto released his first solo album, Samba pra Burro, through independent record label Trama, which mixed traditional Brazilian genres such as samba and MPB with electronica, drum and bass and rap. Produced by Apollo 9 and counting with guest appearances by Skowa, Bebel Gilberto, former Mundo Livre S/A bandmate Fred 04 and Erasto Vasconcelos (brother of Naná Vasconcelos), it received a good critical reception, and Pro-Música Brasil chose it as the best album of 1998. The album catapulted Otto into nation-wide acclaim, later leading him to open shows for bands such as The Prodigy in the same year, and in 1999 he played alongside Tom Zé at the Heineken Concerts in São Paulo. In 2000 a remixed version of Samba pra Burro was released, also through Trama, entitled Changez Tout.