The Band

I was thinking about what to say here, and I think it's important to say some words about the band members...
I'll write here what I think is important about them, some things I read and some things are my way to see them:

Herbert Vianna
Herbert Lemos de Souza Vianna is the guitar player, singer and the composer of most of the songs. heá born in 4/5/1961 in João Pessoa/PB and lived in Brasília, where he met Bi. His Father was a plane pilot of Brasilian Air force. Herbert wanted to be a pilot like his father, but his sight problems got in his way. He played and love guitars since he was a kid, and leaned to play it really fast. He's 2 brothers, Hermano(older) e Helder(younger).

He moved to Rio in 1978 and was really lonelly there, then Bi moved there either and they started to play together. the've met Vital, the band's former drummer, in school (preparatory to the brazilian college tests). He went to architecture college in Rio (UFRJ) but stopped it when the band started to make some money.

he has 3 kids, Luca Benedict, Hope Isabel and Phoebe Rita, and he is a widower, he lost his british wife, Lucy, in 2001, in the same plane crash that almost killed him. He slowly got back to the stages and nowadays he makes concerts as always using his weelchair.

He's a devoted father and very kind man, he likes to make jokes and songs making fun of all his friends and some situations they've been thru.

In 2009 was released a movie about Herbert's life, "Herbert de perto", it shows his history since he's a kid, and also shows some of the band's history. You can find it in DVD.

Bi Ribeiro
Felipe de Nóbrega Ribeiro is the band's bass player. He's brought some of the jamaican sounds to the band, he's his unmistakable sound that makes it impossible for those who like PdS to thik that basists are just basists... he's one of the souls of this band...

Bi have 4 siblings, Andréa, Pedro, Fernando e Rafael. He's born in 30/03/1961, in Rio, have lived in Brasilia and moved to Rio in 1979 to study to go to college. He went to Zootechnique college in Seropédica (UFRRJ) and, because of the constant strikes of the teachers, he travelled a lot to Brasilia that time, getting to know all the Capital Bands that were emerging that time, some of then become the greatests bands of the contry, along with PdS. When the band launched he left the college.

He's two Kids, Teresa and Tito, he's the last one to have kids, had his first in 2001. He is know for his warm way to treat everyone and his great hugs. He's a really easy to handle guy and in some interviews they say that he mediate any fight in the band.

In 2001 he founded "Reggae B", a reggae band with some musicians of PdS and some friends from other bands (Negril, Affroreggae, Black Alien, Nando Reis etc.)... the band formation varies sometimes 'cause its the "b" band of all members and all of them have their other stuffs.

He's a simple kind of guy, likes to wear the same stile of clothes, have a ranch in Rio de Janeiros contryside, a Land Rover and a pub in Brasília with some friends. He doesn't really like tecnology, like internet and computers.

João Barone
João Alberto Barone Reis e Silva is the band's drummer. He was the last one to join the group, in seropédica, he had always lived there and studied Biology in UFRRJ by the time. he also left college when the band launched. When he joined the band everything changed, the sound and the possibilities of the group. He was a good player already in that time, had studied music and used to play in a Beatles' cover band.

He's born in 05/08/1962 in Rio. João have 3 siblings: João Henrique, João Guilherme e Maria Elisa all of them older than him, and 3 kids and one stepkid: Clara and Laura from his first marriage, Vicente from his second Marriage and Branca, the daughter of his second wife.

Barone is a Beattles and Police fan(all of them are Police fan) and is an enthusiast of Second World War, specially the vehicles used in that war. He had a lot of them and now have a restaured jeep calleg Gisella (the war cars were named after girls in that time). He made and video documentary and a book about the Second World War and the celebration of the 60 years of D day, that he went with his Jeep. he's also the one who likes new technologies, uses internet and portable pcs.