To celebrate the birthday of Roberto Gurgel, known as Juba, Rolling Stone Brasil tells how he joined the band and some cool facts
Roberto Gurgelbetter known in the music world as Maneturned 70 this Thursday, 4th. The artist marked Brazilian rock as the drummer of the iconic band blitz – a role he holds to this day.
Nonetheless, Mane was to join the band led by Evandro Mesquita some after the first studio album, the famous The Adventures of Blitz 1 (1982). he replaced wolf, who decided to leave the group at its peak due to artistic differences. So from Radioactivityalbum released on September 10, 1983, the drums we hear are from gurgel.
It is worth remembering how it was not easy for blitz find a drummer as good as wolfand no candidate could play “One More Of Love (Moan Moan).” Mane he was nominated for the band thanks to a friend and, when he arrived at the test, he impressed and was approved as a new drummer almost immediately.
after the arrival of Mane, the rock band found great moments in its history. In 1984, they put on the show with the biggest impact on Apotheosis Squarewith an impressive audience of 30 thousand people, and that year they even starred in their own special on Rede Globoentitled Blitz against the Evil Genius.
After Radioactivityother memorable studio albums were released with Roberto Gurgel in command of the Blitz battery: BLITZ 3 (1984), languages (1997), eskute (2009) and adventures II (2016).
Save save people. Congratulations and good health to our dear drummer Juba!!! 👏👏👏🎂 pic.twitter.com/mJ25ClF3xB
— BLITZ (@REALBLITZ) August 4, 2018
Juba’s dream music collection
Great music lover in addition to working at blitz, Mane collects vinyl records and CDs. Second Beatles Brazil Portal, he has about four thousand LPs, thousands of CDs, memorabilia, artwork, posters, instruments, magazines, books, illustrations, rugs, toys, etc. Of course, the items are from different artists, such as Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, pink Floyd, between others. See below:
Blitz celebrates 40 years of band with pop circus
On June 4, 2022, blitz went to Porto Alegre to set up his own pop circus to celebrate 40 years of existence. The presentation took place on Araújo Vianna Auditorium. On stage were the members Evandro Mesquita (vocal), Mane (drums), Billy Forghieri (keyboard), Claudia Niemeyer (low), Rogério Meanda (guitar) and Nicole Cyrne and Andréa Coutinho us backing vocals.
Source: Rollingstone
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