RPM (Brazilian band)
RPM ("Revoluções por Minuto", Revolutions per minute in Brazilian portuguese), is a Brazilian Pop Rock band. It was formed by singer/bassist Paulo Ricardo, keyboardist Luiz Schiavon, guitarist Fernando Deluqui and drummer Paulo Antônio "P.A." Pagni.
They played soft Techno-pop with strong, paradoxical, influences of Progressive rock and European Synthpop. Their lyrics were pessimistic, ironic and full of literary (Arthur Rimbaud, Surrealism and books like Christiane F.) and political references, with a strong leftist tone.
The band was very successful in the mid 1980s; the live album Rádio Pirata ao vivo was the best-selling ever record in Brazil at the time, with more than 2.2 million copies sold[1][2]. Their later output however, didn't come close to achieving the same level of success, causing the band to disintegrate in the late 1980s.
Paulo Ricardo, however tried to revive the band a few times in the following decades. In the early 90's, he and Deluqui put together a new band under the moniker "Paulo Ricardo & RPM", this time trying a harder rock style to fit the current trends of the time. With no significant commercial success, the project went under. However, in 2002, the original lineup reunited for a very successful tour and live album, but also split soon after for internal differences.
[edit] Discography
- Revoluções por Minuto (1985) 350.000 - Platinum
- Rádio Pirata ao Vivo (1986) 2.700.000 - 2x Diamond
- Quatro Coiotes (1988) 250.000 - Platinum
- Paulo Ricardo & RPM (1993)
- MTV RPM 2002 (2002) 250.000 - Platinum
- Elektra (2011)
[edit] References
- ^ Dapieve, Arthur (2000) [1996] (in Portuguese). BRock: o rock brasileiro dos anos 80 (3rd ed. ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Editora 34. ISBN 85-7326-008-4.
- ^ AllBrazilianMusic: the music from Brazil
[edit] External links
- Paulo Ricardo's website (in Portuguese)
- Fernando Deluqui's website (in Portuguese)
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