Profile - Renato Manfredini Jr. (Renato Russo)
Autor: Meio Ambiente CEFET MG | Publicado: 2012-10-30T05:45:00-07:00








Renato
Manfredini Jr. was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 27, 1960, son of the
economist Renato Manfredini an official of “Banco do Brasil” and Dona Maria do
Carmo an English teacher. He learned English since childhood, when he lived,
from 7 to 10 years, in New York. New transfer the father took the boy, now aged
13, who both scored in Brasilia your music. Renato had a childhood and
adolescence of the middle class. Between 15 and 17 years faced several
operations, where three pins placed in the body and lived between bed and
wheelchair, fighting a rare bone disease called epifisiolise. 

At 78,
inspired by Sex Pistols, Joy Division, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, The Rolling
Stones and other bands, Renato formed “Aborto Elétrico”, that the coming and
going of members, featured appearances by Flavio has done and Lemos (after the Capital
Inicial), Ico Ouro Preto and Andre Pretorius. In 82 abandoned by "Aborto Elétrico" fights with Fê Lemos became solo works. This period became known as
"The Lone Troubadour." When the legendary "scene of
Brasilia" was already a recognized underground force, Renato Russo created
“Legião Urbana” with Marcelo Bonfa, Eduardo Paraná and Eduardo Paulista. A year
later, Paraná and Paulista left the band and went Dado Villa-Lobos.

When Renato
Rocha joined the band in 84, “Legião Urbana” had already presented several
times in Brasilia, notably in the famous Flying Circus shows in Rio de Janeiro
and Napalm in Sao Paulo. The success of his shows quickly led to a contract
with EMI-Odeon. On the first day of the following year came the first album, “Legião
Urbana”, which spawned the hits "Geração Coca-cola", "Ainda é
cedo” and "Será".

With its
powerful choruses and lyrics that spoke of emotional insecurities and nihilism
generation grown during the military regime, “Legião Urbana” hit bottom in the
aspirations of young Brazilians. The recipe was perfected in the next album, “Dois”,
played better, better written and more elaborate. Successes like "Eduardo
e Mônica" and "Quase sem querer" spoke a language that any young
urban Brazilian 80s could understand and identify with.

Two
consolidated Renato Russo as one of the biggest pop stars in the country.
Already on tour this second album began appearing Renato Russo star: his shows
included speeches preachers and a high consumption of drugs and alcohol.

In 1987 comes
the third album, “Que país é esse”, generating hits like "Faroeste Cabloclo,"
a national tour and more crowded. In 89 out “Quatro Estações” that opens the
band's more mature phase, both in sound and in lyrics, addressing issues such
as AIDS and homosexuality. In “Meninos e Meninas", Renato suggests
bisexuality. Soon after, a story Bizz magazine interview, Renato confirmed the
fact.

"V", album
released in 91, came loaded with a sadness that reflected the emotional and
psychological instability experienced by Renato. The tour that followed had to
be stopped due to his poor health.

“O Descobrimento
do Brasil”, 93. After the album, Renato gave vent to his solo projects and
released “The Stonewall Celebration Concert”, “Equilibrio distante”.

The first,
sung in English. Renato then makes her hard to the more militant proud to be
gay, to the sound of Broadway and Madonna covers. Stonewall is the name of a
New York bar where a famous event in 69, gays rebelled against political
action. Balance brings distant songs by Renato Italian music, one of the latest
crazes singer.

Renato was HIV
positive since 1989, but never publicly took the disease. Since the time of
"Descobrimento do Brasil," Renato walked reclusive and aloof and
avoided the press. The suspicions were confirmed on October 11, 1996 to her
death from complications of AIDS, weighing only 45 pounds.











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from http://www.casadobruxo.com.br/renato/biografia.htm&nbsp;Acessado em:
01/10/2012
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