Falcão

Falcão studied at Universidade Federal do Ceará. The recorded working language is Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are brega and comedy rock. Waldick Soriano, Nelson Gonçalves and Frank Zappa are recorded as an influence. Residence is recorded at Fortaleza.

• Name — Falcão • Birth Name — Marcondes Falcão Maia • Born — September 16, 1957 • Birthplace — Pereiro, Ceará, Brazil • Occupation — Singer-songwriter, television presenter, humorist, actor • Years Active — 1990–present

Falcão was born in Pereiro, a town of Ceará, where he lived until 12 years. Influenced by his father, a pharmacist and the only owner of a radio in the town, he listened to a variety of music: from Waldick Soriano to Italian music, and from Nelson Gonçalves to the Beatles. In 1970, his family moved to Fortaleza, where he attended Júlia Jorge school and learned to play guitar. In 1978, Falcão obtained a degree as technician for edifications at the Ceará Federal Technical School. After four years working as draftsman of architecture, he enters the Federal University of Ceará to course Architecture. At the same time, he, along with some friends, establish the publication Um Jornal Sem Regras, where they published some compositions of they band o Bufo-Bufo. In 1988, he obtained his degree in Architecture, and along with two friends he opened an office in 1989, which worked until 1991.

In 1988, Falcão participated at a music contest organized by Banco do Brasil along with one of his friends, Tarcísio Matos, who worked there. In contrast of the songs presented, he sang a brega bolero using colorful clothing, which would become his trade mark. Although he was rejected by critics, the public applauded him. At the Christmas night, he did his first solo show. After some public request, he recorded his first album, Bonito, Lindo e Joiado, which contained his first major hit, "I'm Not Dog No." The song, and adaptation of Soriano's hit "Eu Não Sou Cachorro Não", was done in response to the high number of English-language music in Brazilian radios. The independent album was taken by Beto Barbosa to the record label Continental, which re-released it in 1991. • Illustration — Falcão in 2015 He was signed by BMG in 1994 after Raimundo Fagner showed them a Compact Cassette of Falcão's songs. Fagner and Robertinho de Recife then produced his second album, O Dinheiro não É Tudo, mas É 100%. On this work, he was advised to try again to adapt a successful brega song, and he wrote "Black People Car" based on Almir Rogério's "Fuscão Preto." His following work, A Besteira É a Base da Sabedoria (1995), which sold over 240,000 copies, became the best-selling album of his career. He recorded other two albums, A Um Passo da MPB (1996) and Quanto Pior, Melhor (1998), for BMG. In 1998, he starred his own show as presenter of Falcão na Contramão on Rede Bandeirantes. Under the Abril Music label, Falcão released 500 Anos de Chifre, with songs about cuckolds. His seventh disc, Do Penico à Bomba Atômica, was released by Fortaleza's label SomZoom. In the following year, he published the book Leruaite - Dog's Au-Au It's Not Nhac-Nhac, with sentences he have said on interviews and liner notes of his albums after a publisher requested him to talk about his "philosophy". In 2006, What Porra Is This?, an album published by NC Music, marked the first time his band, Diarréia, recorded along with him. In 2011, Falcão appeared on the film Um Assalto De Fé, which satirizes protestant Churches, as a pop-star pastor. Falcão went into starring his own talk show, Leruaite, on TV Ceará in 2012. Cine Holliúdy, a 2012 Brazilian film, also had a character portrayed by Falcão, the blind Isaías. In 2014, he released independently his ninth album, Sucessão de Sucessos que se Sucedem Sucessivamente sem Cessar.