Introduced to music by his father, singer Wilson Simonal, in 1992 Max de Castro joined the band Confraria, formed by Pedro Camargo Mariano and his brother João Marcello Mariano (Daniel Carlomagno would come to the group in the next year). The band had success in several school festivals. After participating in Cia da Música for two years, Castro worked as an arranger and also had songs recorded on the albums João Marcello Bôscoli e Cia and Pedro Camargo Mariano. As a producer, de Castro worked for Thalma de Freitas, Klébi, Patrícia Marx, and Cláudio Zoli. De Castro also wrote ...