"American Idiot" - Green Day
























Don't want to be an American Idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
Can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be ok
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Maybe I am the faggot America I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tention All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be ok
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue




















Don't want to be an American Idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
Calling out to Idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be ok
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue.









































The song and all the CD is a way to tell a history about the war in Iraq. In the first song , Green Day, decided to make a critic to all American people that knew about the war and didn't do anything about it. A movie based on green day"s CD history is being make. It'll probably be finish in 2007.

Project from
Felipe Braga
Higher 3
Teacher Paula

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch

Simple Plan
























My name is Helena, I like many bands and singers, but the band that I like the most is Simple Plan.
I love Simple Plan! The songs are very pretty, like all of them, but my favorite song is “Perfect”.
The band is formed by five people:
Chuck Comeau (drums), David Desrosiers (bass, backing vocals), Jeff Stinco (lead guitar), Pierre Bouvier (vocals), Sebastian Lefebvre (guitar, backing vocals)

The Cds of the band are:
-"No pads, no Helmets … Just balls", 2002, Lava/Warner
-"Still getting any", 2004, Lava/Warner
-"Live from Hard Rock", 2005, Lava/Warner
I said a little about this band that I like so much! But Simple Plan is much more than this!

Simple Plan is everything!!!!

Project from
Helena
Starter 1
Teacher Paula

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch

My favorite band is Linkin Park.

I like rock, and the songs Faint, Figure 9, From the Inside, Numb and other songs.
My second favorite band is Green Day, one rock band, I like the songs: American Idiot, Wake Me Up When Septembers Ends, Jesus of Suburbia, Holiday, She’s Rebel and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

And my other favorite bands are: Ramones, Deep Purple, Metallica, Eminem and others. I like singing, Ramones, Linkin Park and Green Day. This is my text of my favorite bands!

Project from
Danilo Pereira
Starter 1
Teacher Paula

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch

Stairway to fame













Led Zeppelin was a British band that influenced a new style of the 70’s rock. The Led Zeppelin is: Jimmy Page (guitar), John Bonham (drums), John Paul Jones (bass and piano) and Robert Plant (vocal).
In 1968 the band Yardbirds finished and Page decided to form a new one with his friend John Paul Jones. They met Robert Plant, who presented John Bonham to them. They formed The New Yardbirds. But this name wasn’t good, The How’s drummer said that Page’s band was heavy, like lead, and could fly, so they called Lead Zeppelin, but they changed to Led Zeppelin so nobody would mispronounce it.

































In 1969 the band recorded their first album, named Led Zeppelin, which was financed by Jimmy Page that used the money he had earned with the Yardbirds. This album was a combination of blues and rock and roll, and in England the review wasn’t good. But in United States they were making success, their album was the second more sold, the first was the Beatles. In the same year they recorded the second album, and had a good review in England. The song “Mob Dick” had a fantastic performance of John Bonham in one of the most fantastic drums solo in the world.
In 1970 they stopped the concerts to work on their third album, but it was a failure of sale. In 1971 their fourth album was recorded which had such success, that crazy minds said the band had made a satanic agreement and sold their souls to be famous again. This album included the songs "Black dog” and "Stairway to Heaven”, which is until now the biggest classic of rock. “Stairway to Heaven” was a mixture of acoustic music and heavy rock.
















In 1973 Led Zeppelin released the new album named "Houses Of the Holly” showing all the tendency of their songs. In 1974 they released they own publishing, named Swan Song Records. In 1975 they released their first double album “Physical Graffiti” by “Swan Song”. This album included the song that they did not recorded of the left three previous albums; it had a good review by fans. Led Zeppelin was considered the best band of rock in the world. In 1976 the album “Presence” proved that Led Zeppelin wasn’t in a good period. The rock was changing and the punk rock appeared.
In 1978 the album “In through the out Door” proved that Led Zeppelin continued being the best band in the world. The drummer John Bonham died alone in his room suffocated with his own vomit after drinking a lot of alcoholic drinks. His death finished with Led Zeppelin, the others couldn’t imagine the band without John Bonham. In 1982 was recorded an album with their old songs named “Coda”. The ex-members of Led Zeppelin have been devoted in parallel projects.
If you want to know more about Led Zeppelin you could visit http://www.led-zeppelin.com/ there you will find more information.

Project from
Priscilla Strano Lombardi
Higher 3
Teacher Paula

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch

Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson was born in the north of Oahu, in Hawaii.
He started to play guitar when he was fourteen years old. The first song that he learned to play was “One" of Metalica and "Frank and Albert" of Cat Stevens.
He loves surf and some Jack’s songs are inspired in surf. His favorite films are The Seedling, Litmus, Filthy Habbits, Blazing Boards, Bunyip Dreaming, Green Iguana, and Endless Summer.
His music is very good and brings peace. Nick Drake, Beatles, Hendrix, Trible Called Quest, Dylan, Ben Harper, Radiohead, G. Love and Special Sauce, Otis Redding, Neil Young, Bob Marley, Kurosawa and Tom are his inspiration.
Before being a singer, he was commentator of films about surf until in 2001 Jack recorded his first CD, Brushfire Fairytales.
The most recent Compact disc of Jack, On and On, was recorded this year.
Jack came to Brazil in April and made his first show here.
He is a very good singer and I love his music, like: Flake, Better Together, Dreams by Dreams, On and On, Times Like These and others.

Project from
Lilia
Higher 3
Teacher Paula

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch

Charlie Brown Jr.

My favorite band is "charlie brown junior".
I love them.
My favorite songs are: "Champagne e agua benta","Zoio de lula" and "No passo a passo".


Members
Vocal: Chorão
Bass: Heitor
Drums: Pinguim
Guitar: Thiago castanho

Project from
Maria Beatriz
Starter 1
Teacher Paula

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch

What we from Progress 2 think is cool in Brazilian music !

Marcelo D2
Marcelo D2 started in 1995 in the “Planet Hemp” with his first CD “Eu tiro é onda”.
He was influnced by David Corcos, Carlos Bess, Mário Caldato,and João Donato, and the music he plays is called “Hip-Hop”, which is really wicked... Other CDs he has recorded are “A procura da patida perfeita (2003)”, “A invasão do sagaz homem fumaça (2000)”
Marcelo D2 in partnership with his friend Skunk were the leaders of “Planet Hemp”, but Skunk died and now D2 is pursuing a solo career.


From “micareta” to solo career , Ivete is ours!
At school Ivete Sangalo used her free time to play the guitar. She moved to Salvador at the age of 17 to work as a model, but she surrended to music, which had always been her passion.
She participated in “micaretas” in Morro do Chapeu, where she met Jorge Cunha, the producer who created the EVA carnival group. With the band there were many successes but in 1999 she started her solo career with her first solo CD “Ivete Sangalo”. Since then she has been taking part in shows and campaigns, and has also launched other Cds and DVDs. “As Super Novas” had the historical mark of 500.000 sold copies in advance.
In 2005 she was awarded with the Grammy Latino for the best record of Foreign Root. Nowadays ,Ivete has also become the star of TV commercials and governmental prevention campaigns.She is very charismatic.


“The Titãs” forever !
In the end of the 70´s, a musical event “A idade da pedra jovem ” showed new talents like Sérgio Brito, Arnaldo Antunes, Paulo Miklos, Marcelo Fromer, Nando Reis, Ciro Pessoa and Tony Bellotto, who formed the Titãs group. Their first official presentation was in October 15, 1982 in Sesc Pompéia. Later Branco Mello and André Jung joined the group and with nine members on stage they really drew the attention of people due to their creative lyrics.
They´ve been to international festivals and they were the first Brazilian band to perform in The Night of Rock, in Montreu , with great success. Currently some of their famous songs are “Cegos do castelo”, “Marvin” and “Epitáfios”.


INIMIGOS DA HP
They are eight friends who studied together at a college in São Paulo and used to meet to play and talk about current affairs. They went to a music school and started to play “pagode” in 1999.
The band was called “Inimigos da HP” because five of them are engineers, one is an advertising manager, one is a designer and one is a lawyer, and most of them worked with HP calculators. They recorded the first CD in 2001, and in 2004 they recorded their DVD and second Cd in “Tom Brasil” concert hall in Vila Olímpia.
They have re-recorded some old “axé’, “samba” and pop songs and they usually play in Brazilian discos. “Alemão”, “Sebá”, Bonilha, Bruninho, Gui , “Tocha”, Leo and “Cebola” are the friendly “Inimigos”.


O RAPPA
Born in 1994 , this band is formed by the vocal and guitarrist Falcão, Yuka, who plays the drums, Lobato in the keyboard, Lauro Farias playing the bass and “Xandão, who is the other guitarist.
Many other musicians have already been part of this band, whose best DVD, MTV Acoustic, was released in 2005. They have been playing the same type of music since 1994 and they have never had an argument.


Project from
Progress 2 - Mon/Wed
Teacher Virgínia

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch

Racionais Mc's - a Rap Group


One of the most important groups of rap in Brazil, is the "Racionais Mc’s", the members of this group are:
Mano Brown, Ice Blue, Edy Rock and KL Jay and they were born in the end of 80’s.













Their first record was in 1988, in the collection “Consciência Black”, two years later they recorded their first album solo “Holocausto Urbano”, this album made them very famous. In 1991 they opened one show for the rap group Public Enemy.
In 1992, they started one work for poor communities of the slums, giving lectures in the schools and talking about drugs and police violence, racism and other topics.
The songs of "Racionais Mc’s" talk about mostly about discrimination and misery, using dialects, and the more constant topic is policial violence.
In the time of one of their shows in 1994, they were arrested by the police because of incitation of violence.





















The album “Sobrevivendo no Inferno” made the group go to the top, with the mark of 500.000 sold copies.

Some songs of Racionais Mc’s are: “Vida Loka 1 e 2”, “Nego Drama”, “Diário de um detento”, “A vida é desafio”, “Jesus Choro”, “Artigo 157”, “Capitulo 4 Versículo 3”, etc.


Project from
Maurício Gioia Quintino
Progress 2
Teacher Fernanda

Centro Britânico - Colégio Batista

Inimigos da HP























Inimigos da HP is a band of “pagode” and “samba”. The components are Alemão, Sebá, Bonilha, Brunino, Gui, Tocha, Léo and Cebola. This band was created in 1999, in São Paulo.The band started because its components wanted to sit in a bar and tell lies and sing “pagode”, but nobody knew how to sing or play instruments.
But one day they decided to buy instruments and a video insturction that taught how to make a success singing pagode.

They treined a lot and now make a great success. Their first song was a “Caça e Caçador”.
The most important songs are:
-Musa da Praia
-Brilho de Cristal
-Ê saudade
-Deixa acontecer

In my opinion, although inimigos da HP is a very young band, they are the best band of Brazil.

Website: www.inimigosdahp.com.br


































Project from
Murillo Faria Sabatier
Progress 2
Teacher Fernanda

Centro Britânico - Colégio Batista

Roupa Nova














Roupa Nova is a nice band and you are going to enjoy their songs. It's easy to get their songs on the Internet. They write their songs when they are having barbecue. Like all 'cariocas', they like the beach, they couldn't be an exception.

Project from
Danilo, Bruno, Diane, Mariana, Taliata, Adil and Natalia
2nd EM - A and B
Teacher Márcia

Colégio Piaget
São Paulo - Brazil

Capital Inicial - a rock band from Brasília - Brazil














Brasília, May of 1983. A group of youths is arrested for using bracelets of tacks and pins, under the allegation that these accessories wolud be weapons in potential. The answer came in a "Fanzine's" editorial, in his second number, written by a young man that just signed "Dinho”
"Fanzine" brought other subjects, like the basic "Discography of the new music", that included Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned. Ramones, Siouxie and the Banshees, P.I.L., Adam and the ants, Joy Division, UK Subs and Dead Kennedys.
In those pages, sometimes written by hand, with collages of other publications, there was a small panorama of the punk rock of Brasília (with letters of the “Aborto Eletrônico”, XXX and Simple Populace), frames, poetries and several collaborators' texts (Hermano Vianna, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Guilherme Isnard, among other). The posture of this group that exposed their thoughts through the music, of fanzines and of their attitudes can be characterized by the music "Geração Coca-cola", of Renato Russo:

"After 20 years of school / it is not difficult to learn / all of the guiles of this dirty game / it is not like this that they have to be? / We will make our house duty / there you will see then / their children dropping kings / to do comedy in the movies with their laws. / We are the children of the revolution / we are bourgeois without religion / we are the future of the nation / generation Coke"

The Capital Inicial appeared in 1982, formed by the siblings Fês and Flávio Read (former members of the Aborto Elétrico, besides Renato Russo), and Loro Jones (guitar), originating from of the band Police raid 64.
In 1983, Dinho Ouro-Preto, entered for the vocal place of the band.

In July they debuted in Brasília, playing soon afterwards in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro.
In fact, this was one of the outstanding characteristics of the beginning of the career: the constants trips and presentations in the main stages of the underground of the Brazilian rock.

Soon after that, in the last year of the century 20, it begins with the band getting ready for the recording of the “Capital Inicial - Acoustic MTV", that ends up happening in March. The album is released on May 26, and the first circulation quickly becomes sold out at the main stores of Brazil.
The first chosen song to play in the radios, "Everything That it Goes" is executed thoroughly at the whole country, and the band was recognized her pledge in doing an acoustic CD of simple rock, robbed, but with the same attitude of their best CDs.





















In 2002, after the tour Unplugged, the band returns with total force to the guitars making a CD in total rock n' roll. With Yves Passarell taking over guitarist's position, it has thrown "Roses and Red wine". The hits "To her way" and "More" explodes in the radios and the CD already reaches the mark of 200.000 sold copies.

Following the success of the "Roses and Red wine", in 2004 they release the "Gigante” CD, that bursts with big hits and the theme of the soap opera "Começar de novo". They get new scenery and a gigantic robot for the tour. The band is now part of the casting of Sony/ BMG label and they sell more than 150 thousand copies.


In 2005, the band accomplishes an old dream, they re-recorded known and unpublished successes of “Aborto Elétrico”, punk band of Brasília, formed by Renato Russo and the brothers Fês and Flávio, that originated the Legião Urbana and Capital Inicial.

And the Capital continues!


Project from
Octávio Lopes de Siqueira
Progress 2
Teacher Fernanda

Centro Britânico - Colégio Batista

Felipe Dylon

Felipe is a famous young singer. His original name is Felipe Firiolle Dylong, but his artistic name is Felipe Dylon. He is 18 years old, he lives with his father, mother and dog. His mother is a dancer, his father is a surfer and his grandfather has created the disco and concert place called “Canecão” – in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


































In his free time, Felipe practices surfing and goes to the movies, shopping mall and parties at his friends’ house. He loves surfing since he was a child and his favorite beach to surf is Honolulu in Hawai. He has been there once with his father.

Felipe has broken his contract his record label, recently, and because of that, he can’t sing his songs. Even though he has broken the contract, he has continued playing and singing in TV shows and he even has a new CD at the moment. He also presents a program on MTV.





















Even though Felipe has already turned 18, he can’t drive, because he doesn’t have a car. His 18th birthday party was to rent a convertible car, and he drove it many times. Although Felipe’s life is speedy, because he is a student, singer, surfer and more, he is very vain with his appearance and his body. In his everyday bag there is always perfume, shampoo, deodorant, lotions to his face and body and more.

Felipe is a special guy, he is talented, famous, beautiful and lovely. I love him and he has a bright future. He is perfect!

Project from
Stefane Ribeiro de Moura
Progress 2
Teacher Fernanda

Centro Britânico – Colégio Batista

“Inimigos da HP” – a “samba” band

Eight graduated people decided to get together to do what they most like: play samba, pagode and axé – typical Brazilian music, for their friends and have a good time.
The group is formed by: Sebá, Léo, Alemão, Cebola, Bruninho, Tocha and Bolinha. They are five engineers, graduated in Mackenzie; one administrator graduated in GV; one lawyer, also from Mackenzie; one advertise agent and one industrial designer from FAAP, all Universities from São Paulo. They had one thing in common: they all used the calculator HP that is the reason for the name!
Their first CD was released in 2005 and they are playing samba, pop, axé and other rhythms. Since then, they never stopped. Their best songs are:
“Brilho de Cristal”, “Bons Momentos”, “Quer dizer”, “É saudade”, “Morena de Prata”, “A musa da Praia” and more.
















Project from
Yael Trajtengertz Codreanschi
Starter 2
Teacher Fernanda

Centro Britânico
Perdizes Branch