Biography 

AndreLuz is a vocalist and began its career in 1994, with bands in São Paulo, Brazil.
He graduated in MPB and jazz singing at the Musical Theatre Conservatory Dr. Carlos de Campos Tatui where he specialized in the fundamentals of Brazilian rhythms such as samba, choro, frevo, maracatu, ballad, schottische, with big names from the Brazilian asCléber Almeida (Curupira Trio), Fabio Leal (Group Mind Clara), Paulo Braga,Andrea dos Guimarães, Alexandre Bauabi Jr (Group I cry Breaking Branch), also participated in workshops with Guell, Marcus Suzano, CleberAlmeida, André Marques and other big names in Brazilian popular music.
Throughout his career Andre Luz has developed projects for bands, duets and trios performing in Theatres, Hotels and venues in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.


Currently, after moving to Europe, Andre Luz has performed in venues and events at Brixton Academy (London), Musikcafe (Amsterdam), Made in Brazil (London), The Lost Angel (London) among others.

Performance: "The repertoire is the golden age, bossa nova, festivals, club corner to the present days. Big names of the brazilian music are always remembered as: Noel, Top Hat, Adoniram Barbosa, Dorival Cayme, Tom Jobim, Edu Lobo, Djavan, Milton, Elis Regina, Chico Buarque,Luiz Gonzaga, Joao Gilberto, Jorge Ben, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Lenin, etc..

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Bio: 

My name is Dave Holmes, the Bossa Renovator !

I started classical guitar aged 7 and went on to learn various guitar styles and other instruments, studying Popular Music and Sound Recording at Chichester College of Arts, Science and Technology at the end of the 90s. I later studied Audio Engineering and Studio Production at the prestigious London Audio College, Alchemea, where I gained many hours practical time recording bands and using music technology.

In 1998 I moved to Portugal for two years where I began to learn the Portuguese language. From 2001, for a number of years, I made many  trips around Brazil which improved my Portuguese proficiency and led to an appreciation and interest in Brazilian music. 

In 2007 I joined a huge local Samba 'bloco' called Toque Tambor (ToqueTambor.com) , with whom I have performed at events and major festivals in UK and Ireland, often alongside members of one of Brazil's best Samba bands, Monobloco, and at events with other similar Samba groups from around Europe. In this group I gained a great deal of experience playing Samba percussion -  samba being the roots of Bossa Nova.

After many years interest in Brazilian music and the Portuguese language, I used my Music Technology skills to experiment with DJing Brazilian music, using Ableton Live music software. I later started learning and producing some home recordings of myself playing Bossa Nova classics on guitar and voice and uploaded them to Soundcloud, an online music streaming site, which received encouraging feedback from other users.

I now have the Bossa Nova bug, and have a versatile repertoire of Classic Bossa Nova music, along with popular music with a little Brazilian flavour, which I perform around the UK and abroad.
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I have continued to develop my Music Technology skills, making electronic tunes under the name Damon Breakz, initiating Cosmic-Core.com, where I release original tracks and remixes alongside my online music producer friends from around the world. 

Our music has been downloaded and listened to thousands of times,all over the globe with exposure on French, New Zealand and Australian Radio. We are about to release our 3rd Album in the Summer.

In earlier years I have been involved in the Dance Music scene in Portugal in the late 90's supporting LTJ Bukem with a live Drum & Bass act in 2000 and worked in Semi-pro studios in London, including credits on the Simple Minds 'War Baby' Single (remix Programming credits).

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