Secos & Molhados

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Formed in 1971 by Ney Matogrosso (vocalist), Gerson Conrad (vocalist/composer/guitar) and Joao Ricardo (singer/composer/guitar/harmonica), Secos & Molhados is inscribed in a privileged category of few bands and musicians who led Brazil from bossa nova through Tropicalia then to Brazilian rock, a style which only blossomed in the ’80s. Much of the group’s importance, apart from the huge success of its first album, which sold 700,000 copies in 1973, was the heavy use of stage makeup and dramatic elements, which influenced artists like KISS. These served as reference for a generation of underground bands which wouldn’t accept MPB as their expression, finally drawing a definite outlook in Brazilian music in the ’80s through collective contribution.

Joao Ricardo, a journalist from the newspaper Ultima Hora (Sao Paulo), leader and founder of Secos & Molhados, is a Portuguese from Ponte do Lima (1949). His father, the poet/critic Joao Apolinario, was a major influence in his literary life, and would even contribute lyrics to two songs in the opening album, and one for the second. The project Secos & Molhados (“dry and wet goods,” a typical upcountry warehouse) was devised by Ricardo, who found in the two partners the perfect vehicles for his definite concepts. Ney, who would explode on the stage with his magnetic presence, his counter-tenor voice and extravagant androgynous outfit, remaining as the only successful artist of the trio after the end of the group, was introduced by singer/composer Luli, a common friend; Gerson was already a neighbor and friend of Ricardo’s.
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