Fausto Fawcett

Fausto Fawcett ranked among Brazil’s earliest rap songwriters and scored national radio airplay with “Kátia Flávia,” a track featured on his debut album, Fausto Fawcett & Os Robôs Efêmeros (1987). The same number later appeared in Roman Polanski’s film that opened in Brazil under the title Lua De Fel and was subsequently covered by Fernanda Abreu. Fawcett also co-wrote the hit “Rio 40 Graus” with Fernanda Abreu, who recorded it herself. Working consistently within a turbulent cityscape in which cybernetic elements mingle with Brazilian touchstones such as an enduring fixation on women, he favors multimedia presentations in which conceptual performances are augmented by albums, books, and videos. The 1989 release O Império Dos Sentidos pushes further into erotic territory. That year he issued the book Santa Clara Poltergeist, which introduced the sex-symbol Regininha Poltergeist—the first in a succession of blondes that also comprised Marinara and Cristina Azul. In 1993 he put out Básico Instinto - Fausto Fawcett e Falange Moulin Rouge, and in 1999 he mounted the production Dallas Melrose.