Kiko Loureiro

Kiko Loureiro
Background information
Born (1972-06-16) June 16, 1972
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genres Heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal, thrash metal, neo-classical metal, jazz fusion, chorinho, bossa nova
Instruments Guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums, vocals
Years active 1988–present
Associated acts Angra
Megadeth
Tarja Turunen
Neural Code
Website Official website
Notable instruments
Ibanez Kiko100
Ibanez Kiko10P
Tagima K1
Tagima K2
ESP Kiko Loureiro Fire-K Custom Shop
ESP Kiko Loureiro SE Custom Shop
ESP Kiko Loureiro Fire-K STD

Pedro Henrique "Kiko" Loureiro (born June 16, 1972, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian Heavy metal guitarist, best known as a member of the bands Angra and Megadeth. Along with Angra's other guitarist and primary songwriter Rafael Bittencourt, Loureiro has appeared on all of the band's releases.

Loureiro began studying music and playing acoustic guitar at age 11. He studied with two big famous Brazilian musicians: Pedro Bueno and Mozart Mello. Inspired by various artists, mainly Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Randy Rhoads, he moved to the electric guitar at 13 and by 16 had already joined two bands, Legalize (Edu Mello - vocals, Dennis Belik - bass and Alja - Drums) and A Chave, and was playing in nightclubs in São Paulo. At 19, he helped co-found Brazilian Power metal band Angra, with whom he still plays.[1]

Due to the increase in popularity of power metal, Loureiro has become quite successful, both playing in Angra and as a solo artist. He is known for his tremendous technical skill on the guitar, frequently incorporating such techniques as two handed tapping, sweep picking (full swept arpeggios), alternate picking, artificial & natural harmonics and combining legato & staccato in the same run or phrase. He is also well known for both his instructional and demonstration videos as well as for writing columns for and appearing on the cover of magazines Cover Guitarra, Guitar & Bass, and Young Guitar.

In addition to his rock/metal achievements, Loureiro has also played guitars on several eurobeat songs in collaboration with Dave Rodgers, including "Fevernova", "Ring of Fire" and "The Road is on Fire".

He speaks some French, Spanish, Finnish and English in addition to his native Portuguese.

On April 2, 2015 it was announced that Loureiro had joined the American thrash metal band Megadeth, replacing Chris Broderick.[2]

Personal life

On November 21st, 2016 he and his Finnish wife welcomed twins in the family.[3]

Discography

Solo

Video lesson and instructional

Angra

Tribuzy

Tarja

Neural Code

Paco Ventura Black Moon

Megadeth

References

  1. ↑ Angra.net Biography
  2. ↑ http://www.megadeth.com/news/kiko-loureiro-angra-officially-joins-megadeth
  3. ↑ http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/megadeth-guitarist-kiko-loureiro-welcomes-twins-with-finnish-wife/

External links

Preceded by
Chris Broderick		 Megadeth lead guitarist
2015–present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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