Kiko Loureiro

Kiko Loureiro
Background information
Born	June 16, 1972 (1972-06-16) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genres	Heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal, neo-classical metal, folk metal
Instruments	Guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums
Years active	1988–present
Associated acts	Angra Legalyze A Chave Tarja Turunen Neural Code
Website	http://www.kikoloureiro.com.br
Notable instruments
Tagima K1

Kiko Loureiro (Pedro Henrique Loureiro, born on June 16, 1972 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian Heavy metal guitarist who has worked with bands such as Angra, Silent Moon, and Blezqi Zatzas.

Loureiro began studying music and playing acoustic guitar at age 11. Inspired by various artists, mainly Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Randy Rhoads, he moved to the electric guitar at 13 and by 16 had already joined two bands, Legalyze and A Chave, and was playing in nightclubs in São Paulo. At 19, he helped co-found Brazilian power metal band Angra, with which he still plays. [1]

Due to the increase in popularity of power metal, Loureiro has become quite successful, both playing in Angra and as a solo artist. He is known for his tremendous technical skill on the guitar, frequently incorporating such techniques as two handed tapping, sweep picking (full sweeped arpeggios), alternate picking, artificial & natural harmonics and combining legato & staccatto in the same run or phrase. He is also well known for both his instructional and demonstration videos as well as for writing columns for and appearing on the cover of magazines Cover Guitarra, Guitar & Bass, and Young Guitar.

In addition to his rock/metal achievements, Loureiro has also played guitars on several eurobeat songs in collaboration with Dave Rodgers, including "Fevernova", "Ring of Fire" and "The Road is on Fire"

He speaks French, Spanish, Finnish and English in addition to his native Portuguese. He uploaded a video recently to his Youtube-account of him interviewing Finnish people on the streets in almost fluent Finnish.

Discography

Solo

• No Gravity (JVC/Victor Entertainment, 2005)
• Universo Inverso (Victor Entertainment/Seoul, 2006)
• Fullblast (JVC/Victor Entertainment, 2009)

Video Lesson and Instructional

• Guitarra Rock (1993)
• Os Melhores Solos e Riffs do Angra (2003)
• Tecnica e Versatilidade (2003)
• Guitarra Tecnica Para Iniciantes (2009)
• Rock Fusion Brasileiro (2009)
• Creative Fusion (2010)

Angra

• Reaching Horizons (originally released in 1992, reissued in 1997)
• Angels Cry (JVC Japan, 1993)
• Evil Warning EP (1994)
• Holy Land (Gravadora Eldorado, 1996)
  • Make Believe Part 1 single (1996)
  • Make Believe Part 2 single (1997)
  • Make Believe Part 3 single (1997)
  • Make Believe Part 4 single (1997)
• Freedom Call EP (1996)
• Holy Live live EP (1997)
• Fireworks (SPV GmbH/Century Media Records, 1998)
  • Lisbon single (1998)
  • Rainy Nights single (1998)
• Rebirth (SPV GmbH/Steamhammer, 2001)
  • Acid Rain single (2001)
• Hunters and Prey EP (SPV GmbH/Steamhammer, 2002)
• Rebirth World Tour – Live in São Paulo live album and video (BMG/Victor Entertainment, recorded in 2001 and released in 2003)
• Temple of Shadows (SPV GmbH/Steamhammer, 2004)
  • Wishing Well single (2004)
• Aurora Consurgens (SPV GmbH/Steamhammer, 2006)
  • The Course of the Nature single (2006)
• Aqua (SPV GmbH/Steamhammer, 2010)

Tarja

• My Winter Storm (2007)
• The Seer EP (2008)

Neural Code

• Neural Code (2008)

He already played with famous musicians like: Joe Satriani, Doug Wimbish (Living Colour, Madonna), Victor Wooten, Jonh De Servio (Black Label Society), Steve Harris ( Iron Maiden), Tarja Turunen (Nightwish), Mike Terrana (Malmsteen), Andre Matos and many others.

External links

• Official Kiko Loureiro Website
• Official Angra Website
• Official Kiko Loureiro Blog