Otto Maximiliano Pereira de Cordeiro Ferreira (born June 28, 1968),
known mononymously as Otto, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, drummer,
and television actor and presenter, famous for being one of the
founding members of the pioneering Mangue Bit band Mundo Livre S/A, of
which he served as its drummer from 1984 to 1996.Otto was born in Belo
Jardim, Pernambuco, on June 28, 1968, and is of Dutch and Native
Brazilian descent. During his early teens he moved to Recife, where he
befriended Chico Science and Fred 04; with the latter he would form
Mundo Livre S/A, one of the first Mangue Bit bands ever alongside
Science's Nação Zumbi. Otto provided drums for Mundo Livre S/A's
first two studio albums, until leaving the band in 1996 to pursue a
solo career.In 1998 Otto released his first solo album, Samba pra
Burro, through independent record label Trama, which mixed traditional
Brazilian genres such as samba and MPB with electronica, drum and bass
and rap. Produced by Apollo 9 and counting with guest appearances by
Skowa, Bebel Gilberto, former Mundo Livre S/A bandmate Fred 04 and
Erasto Vasconcelos (brother of Naná Vasconcelos), it received a good
critical reception, and Pro-Música Brasil chose it as the best album
of 1998. The album catapulted Otto into nationwide acclaim, later
leading him to open shows for bands such as The Prodigy in the same
year, and in 1999 he played alongside Tom Zé at the Heineken Concerts
in São Paulo. In 2000 a remixed version of Samba pra Burro was
released, also through Trama, entitled Changez Tout.
known mononymously as Otto, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, drummer,
and television actor and presenter, famous for being one of the
founding members of the pioneering Mangue Bit band Mundo Livre S/A, of
which he served as its drummer from 1984 to 1996.Otto was born in Belo
Jardim, Pernambuco, on June 28, 1968, and is of Dutch and Native
Brazilian descent. During his early teens he moved to Recife, where he
befriended Chico Science and Fred 04; with the latter he would form
Mundo Livre S/A, one of the first Mangue Bit bands ever alongside
Science's Nação Zumbi. Otto provided drums for Mundo Livre S/A's
first two studio albums, until leaving the band in 1996 to pursue a
solo career.In 1998 Otto released his first solo album, Samba pra
Burro, through independent record label Trama, which mixed traditional
Brazilian genres such as samba and MPB with electronica, drum and bass
and rap. Produced by Apollo 9 and counting with guest appearances by
Skowa, Bebel Gilberto, former Mundo Livre S/A bandmate Fred 04 and
Erasto Vasconcelos (brother of Naná Vasconcelos), it received a good
critical reception, and Pro-Música Brasil chose it as the best album
of 1998. The album catapulted Otto into nationwide acclaim, later
leading him to open shows for bands such as The Prodigy in the same
year, and in 1999 he played alongside Tom Zé at the Heineken Concerts
in São Paulo. In 2000 a remixed version of Samba pra Burro was
released, also through Trama, entitled Changez Tout.
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