Brazilian metal guitarist Kiko Loureiro is a Grammy winning musician best known as a long-time member of the globally popular metal band Megadeth and as a founding member of the Brazilian band Angra!

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Kiko Loureiro is a Brazilian Grammy award winning heavy metal guitarist, best known as a member of the bands Angra and Megadeth. His new solo album "Theory Of Mind" is a tour de force of strong melodies, incendiary guitar playing, and great arrangements! Alongside his band Angra, he has released eight studio albums, received two gold records, and is considered one of the most important Brazilian musicians of all time. His solo career started with the album "No Gravity". His second album was "Universo Inverso", recorded in only three days, featuring some of the best jazz musicians in Latin America. Three years later, Kiko released, "Fullblast" , a heavy and progressive piece. In 2008 he also presented his fusion project: Neural Code, in which the band explores rock and jazz, fueled with Brazilian rhythms. "Sounds of Innocence", his fourth solo album, was released in 2012, combining metal, jazz and Brazilian rhythms. The year 2015 came with big news: Kiko was invited to join Megadeth and recorded the guitars for Megadeth's fifteenth studio album "Dystopia" It was in early 2017 that he got the greatest recognition in his career. He became the first Brazilian to receive a Grammy Award by playing in a rock band. Megadeth got the award for "Best Metal Performance" with the album "Dystopia." Open Source released in July 2020 presents new musical ways in Kiko's compositions. "Out of Nothing" is the new single for Kiko's sixth solo album After a career of 25 years, Kiko Loureiro shows that he is a tireless and complete musician who is constantly looking to push his limits and discover something new! Website www.KikoLoureiro.com Social Media https://www.facebook.com/KIKOLOUREIROofficial https://open.spotify.com/artist/5RmLUrjJz5bpP8dF4lYdyK?si=sJW471T6QLqxVjAULSOdYA https://www.instagram.com/kikoloureiro Music Matters podcast is hosted by pro musician, producer, and Sports Illustrated photographer Darrell Craig Harris who is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The series has reached over 400,000 streams in 40 countries. MMP receives gear support from Shure Microphones,.Focusrite, and others. Intro and outro voice overs provided by Nigel John Farmer from www.VoiceWrapStudio.com in France. Our thanks to Rodney Hall FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for our intro and outro backing music clip. Contact us at [email protected] Social: www.Instagram.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial www.Facebook.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial Website www.MusicMattersPodcast.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris, talking about all things music,
0:09.6	with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
0:20.5	Kiko, how are you doing today?
0:22.8	How are you, Daryl?
0:24.5	You're in lovely Finland.
0:26.1	I was just there.
0:27.8	Yeah, it's a lovely, cold, dark, Finland.
0:31.8	It's starting to get dark now, but yeah, it's beautiful.
0:35.1	I love here.
0:36.0	So you're originally from Brazil from brazil from real i believe
0:40.8	and um you have quite a huge history a Grammy award winner um one of the first actually i think
0:46.3	the first rock musician to win a Grammy from from Brazil um you had you co-founded the band angra
0:52.6	um mega death for for several years.
0:56.5	And now you're focusing on your own solo career.
0:59.0	You just released an album, The Theory of Mine, that came out in October.
1:02.4	You just have a new music video that you released.
1:05.5	So you have a lot happening.
1:08.1	So tell me, how did you get from Brazil, a young guitar player of Brazil, to doing all these things?
1:14.6	Tell me how it got started for you, all that kind of stuff. Oh, man, that's a long story.
1:19.9	Yeah, so, yeah, I was born in Rio and then grew up in Sao Paulo, which is a big city and start, you know, playing acoustic guitar, classical guitar, one of the young, you know,
1:29.2	just as a hobby, you know, learned the first chords. My parents are not musicians. I didn't have
1:34.8	any musician around in the family. I just enjoyed then. We had like Rock in Rio, I think it was a big
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