Biography
Velhas Virgens is a successful independent Brazilian rock band from São Paulo, Brasil playing since 1986. Their first album was recorded on 1994 and 8 more discs were recorded since then.
The band was originally formed by "Paulão" de Carvalho with Alexandre "Cavalo" Dias. Since then other musicians were part of the band until now, where the band is formed by:
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* Paulão de Carvalho - vocals, harmonica and sax
* Tuca - base
* Alexandre Cavalo Dias - guitar and backing vocal
* Roy Carlini - guitar
* Simon - drums
* Juliana Kosso (Juju) - vocals
With rock and blues as their main genres, they play irreverent songs about beer, rock'n roll, women and sex, and because of this they are not easily played on radios, though their concerts are one of the best to watch.
They recorded a Carnaval stylish disc, called "CarnaVelhas" on 2004 just for fun. Now they are coming back with more power and more songs, taking advantage of the Internet with services like Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and anything else that can market for them.
On their website you can listen to new tracks and follow the agenda of next concerts around Brazil.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.