Ciro Pessoa Mendes Correa, known by his Dharma name Tenzin Chopel, was a Brazilian singer who was one of the founding members of the influential rock band Titas.
10 Facts About Ciro Pessoa
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Ciro Pessoa left Titas in 1983 due to creative divergences which culminated with a falling-out between him and Andre Jung.
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Shortly afterwards, Ciro Pessoa formed two concomitant new bands: Os Jetsons, with Branco Mello and Charles Gavin, and Ricotas do Harlem, a soul duo with Fernando Salem.
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Alongside Forghieri, Ciro Pessoa composed the soundtrack of the 1993 film Oceano Atlantis, which was written by him and starred Antonio Abujamra.
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In 2003, Ciro Pessoa began a solo career with the release of No Meio da Chuva Eu Grito "Help" on the Voiceprint Records imprint.
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Ciro Pessoa's debut book, Relatos da Existencia Caotica, came out on October 23,2015, by Chiado Editora; it is a compilation of five poetry anthologies Pessoa wrote during his early career, but until then remained unpublished: O Labirinto do Sr.
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From 2010 until it was put on hold in 2016, Ciro Pessoa toured around Brazil with his live band Nu Descendo a Escada.
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Ciro Pessoa became a Vajrayana Buddhist in the late 1990s, thus obtaining the Dharma name Tenzin Chopel, which he used to sign most of the articles he wrote for the magazines and newspapers for which he worked for.
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Between the 1980s and 1990s, Ciro Pessoa was married to his Cabine C bandmate Wania Forghieri.
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On 5 May 2020, Ciro Pessoa died after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil while being treated for cancer.