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Marcelo D2

SATURDAY 30 MAY
AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2009
PLUS SPECIAL GUEST KID MAC
Presented by BRAZILIAN TOUCH

Marcelo D2 was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Living in the poor suburbs, he grew up between the "favelas" and the streets of Andarai, far from postcard Rio and its rich seaside districts. The hardships of his life required him to start working at 13, and before becoming a star, Marcelo worked as a doorman, a paper boy, a cleaner, a vendor, and an office boy, among other things. His childhood friends who remained in the district were consumed by the traffickers, and one by one, D2 lost his best friends in armed confrontations.

Marcelo D2 has started his career in music about 12 years ago as the leader and singer of the band Planet Hemp. Controversial e ideologically straight to the point, Planet Hemp sold over a half million records on their release album called Usuário (1994). The albums that followed, A invasão do Sagaz Homem Fumaça, Os Cães Ladram e a Caravana não passa and MTV Live Planet Hemp made D2 a multi-platinum artist from the start of his career.

Years later, after he toured with the band in countries such as Japan, USA, France, Netherlands and England, Marcelo D2 has entered a new stage on his career and released his first solo album: Eu Tiro É Onda (1999). This album marked him as the starter of a revolution in Brazilian music. The absolute vanguard of Brazilian music all over the world as many newspapers and artists have said for mixing samba and hip hop in and unique, elegant and absolutely contagious way. Impossible to stand still and not dance.

Next, D2 released the album À Procura da Batida Perfeita (2003) and won all the award he was nominated to during two years, including best lyrics and composer from the Brazilian Writers Academy and five Brazilian MTV Awards. Like the one before, the album was produced by Mario Caldato (Beastie Boys producer) with the symbiotic process of putting together beats and influences of all the diversity of composers of samba and hip hop into the fertile imagination of D2s lyrics. Looking For The Perfect Beat, the translation to English, was released in Asia, USA and Europe and established D2 as the main Brazilian artist in 3 continents. For two years D2 and his band were on tour promoting this album, playing at all the capitals of Brazil and four European tours. He has also participated on many Samba and Hip Hop albums of important artists such as Sergio Mendes. In the US, D2 has been considered the Brazilian Jay-Z by Will.i.am and performed together with names like Steve Wonder, Justin Timberlake and Erykah Badu at the PeaPod Foundation show.

On May 8th, D2 released his third solo album, Meu Samba É Assim, with special guests from both Samba and Hip Hop universes, such as Charli Tuna and Zeca Pagodinho. On June 2nd, D2 starts a long waited European Summer Tour of two months playing on the biggest festivals and arenas in Europe, including many of the World Cup Events. He is also going to perform big shows together with the Black Eyed Peas and Sergio Mendes. Marcelo D2 has certainly established himself as one of the most significative artists in Brazilian music.

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More info: www.marcelod2.com.br  www.myspace.com/marcelod2