Reginaldo Rossi

An extremely popular artist of the brega repertory, Reginaldo Rossi attracted crowds to his performances -- he played for 80,000 people in Salvador at the Parque de Exposições. Beginning his artistic career in 1964 (the soon-to-be Jovem Guarda times) in the Silver Jets, this former engineering student and math teacher recorded his first album for Chantecler in 1965, but his first hit came with "O Pão" (1967). After having written 50 songs, of which some were protest songs and others Italian romantic style, he started a tour of Brazil. The real consecration, though, came with "...