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