Só Pra Contrariar

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Só Pra Contrariar ( Portuguese for 'Just to resist' ), abbreviated to SPC, is one of the most successful Brazilian pagoda bands .

Alexandre Pires, former lead singer of Só Prá Contrariar

Career

Só Pra Contrariar was founded in Uberlândia , Minas Gerais in 1989 by Alexandre Pires, Fernando Pires, Hamilton Faria, Juliano Pires, Luisinho Vital, Luis Fernando, Alexandre Popó, Rogério Viana and Serginho Sales. The band became known for their very melodic and romantic pagoda songs, which became very successful. In 1993 their first album "Que Se Chama Amor" was released, the CD "Só Pra Contrariar" in 1997 sold 3 million copies. In 2002 SPC released the CD "Acústico", on which various other artists such as Caetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil participated. In 2002 after eight released albums, Alexandre Pires left the group and pursued his solo career. His brother Fernando Pires, the drummer for SPC, took his place. Without Alexandre Pires, SPC had to go new musical ways, more to the origins of samba than to romantic songs. In 2003 she remembered her ten-year career with the CD “Produto Nacional”. The song "Minha Fantasia", based on a song by Lenny Kravitz , was a great success. Her biggest hits include "Depois do Prazer", "Essa Tal Liberdade", "Minha Medade", "Sai da minha Aba", "Mineirinho", the album "Depois do Prazer" sold 4.2 million copies, followed by "Santo Santo" with 3.2 million sales.

Alexandre Pires

Alexandre Pires (born January 8, 1976 in Uberlândia / Minas Gerais ) was one of the founders of the group Só Pra Contrariar, who sang with SPC from 1989 to 2002 and then pursued a solo career. His songs like "Que Se Chama Amor", "A Barata" and "Domingo" were among the most played songs on Brazilian radio stations. In 1999 he sang “Santo Santo” with Gloria Estefan and in 2001 Pires won the Latin Billboard Awards.

A Barata (Alexandre Pires)

Alexandre Pires wrote, among other things, the ambiguous pagoda success "A Barata" in 1994:

Toda vez que chego em casa
A barata da vizinha está na minha cama
Toda vez que chego em casa
A barata da vizinha está na minha cama
Diz aí Luis Fernando o que cê vai fazer
Eu vou comprar um chicote pra me defender
Ele vai dar uma chicotada na barata dela

Every time I come home
my neighbor's cockroach lies in my bed
Every time I come home
my neighbor's cockroach lies in my bed
Tell me Luis Fernando, what should I do?
I'll buy myself a whip to defend myself
Even if I denied
it a thousand times, he'll give her a lash of the whip on her cockroach

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Acústico
  PT 24 11/2003 (4 weeks)
  • Que Se Chama Amor (1993)
  • Meu Jeito de Ser (1994)
  • O Samba Não Tem Fronteiras (1995)
  • Depois do Prazer (1997)
  • Interphone (1999)
  • Bom Astral (2000)
  • Santo Santo (2000)
  • Produto Nacional I (2003)
  • Produto Nacional II (2004)
  • Seguindo Em Frente (2007)

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ http://www.letras.com.br/biografia/so-pra-contrariar
  2. ↑ Chart sources: PT