Biography
Recognized as a prominent Brazilian blues musician, André Christovam began performing with Fickle Pikle toward the end of the 1970s. In that era he contributed guitar and compositions to recordings by Kid Vinil e os Heróis do Brasil. He pursued studies at the Guitar Institute of Technology in Los Angeles and later appeared on sessions with Rita Lee, among them the 1987 album Flerte Fatal, with Raul Seixas on the 1989 release Panela do Diabo, and with Marcelo Nova on Blackout in 1991. Establishing himself as a solo artist during the 1980s, he delivered his first album under his own name, Mandinga, on the Eldorado label in 1989. The follow-up projects were A Touch of Glass in 1990 and The 2120 Session in 1991, the latter tracked in Chicago with American musicians. In the 1990s he assembled the André Christovam Trio, featuring drummer Athos Costa and bassist Izal de Oliveira, who was succeeded by Fábio Zaglanin in 1996. The group issued the CD Mississippi Saxophone in 1996 and appeared with Carlos Santana during his Brazilian tour that year. Catharsis followed from the trio in 1997.
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