1. Andre Matos was involved in the heavy metal bands Viper, Angra, Shaman and Symfonia.
17 Facts About Andre Matos
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Since 2006, Matos had been dedicating his time to his solo career.
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Andre Matos began his musical education at the age of 10, when he received his first piano from his parents.
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Soon they began learning to play music too, and Andre Matos joined his first band, Viper.
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Andre Matos continued on vocals, but he had no intention of remaining a vocalist, a role he assumed only because his singing was the "least poor vocals of all of them", and because he physically resembled Iron Maiden's vocalist, Bruce Dickinson.
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Andre Matos left Viper when the band began to change its musical style.
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Andre Matos had become interested in classical music, and felt that his musical vision had begun to diverge from that of the other band members, who wanted to focus on heavier, "crude" music.
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In 2000, Andre Matos left Angra alongside Luis Mariutti and Ricardo Confessori because of a disagreement with guitar players Rafael Bittencourt and Kiko Loureiro concerning the band's management.
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Andre Matos stayed with Mariutti and Confessori and recruited Mariutti's brother Hugo on guitar; together they formed the band Shaman.
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Time to Be Free is a more personal album, even though guitarist Hugo Mariutti wrote almost every song along with Andre Matos and Pit Passarel, an ex-band partner of Andre Matos in Viper, who was a guest in this album.
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Besides all success heading the release of the album and the expectation over the album, Andre Matos decided not to record any worldwide video clips; he only recorded and released an exclusive video clip for the Japanese audience which features a cover.
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Time to Be Free was followed by a tour with more than 50 concerts all over the world; Andre Matos was invited to tour with Scorpion and Edguy, taking place in Europe, Brazil and Japan, and in festivals like Loud Park, Live and Louder, and Finnish Metal Expo.
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Andre Matos was called to be headliner in ProgPower USA, but due to problems with their passport, they canceled the concert; he was replaced by another Brazilian band called MindFlow.
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In 2001, Andre Matos was one of the guests on Tobias Sammet's metal opera Avantasia, playing the part of 'Elderane the Elf' in the Metal Opera albums.
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Andre Matos was part of their first world tour in 2008 as one of the main guests.
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In November 2010, Andre Matos joined Symfonia, a power metal supergroup formed in with Timo Tolkki, Uli Kusch, Jari Kainulainen, and Mikko Harkin.
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On 20 April 2012, it was announced that Andre Matos had returned to his former band Viper to make a reunion tour to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the band's debut album, Soldiers of Sunrise.