Sergio Dias

Sérgio Dias, together with his brother Arnaldo, forever marked Brazilian popular music through their highly influential band Os Mutantes. After its disbandment, he headed for a successful solo career that produced five international albums and performances with Leon Shankar, John McLaughlin, Gil Evans, Phil Manzanera, and others. The son of Clarisse Leite Dias Baptista, a concerto pianist and the first woman in the world to write a concert for piano and orchestra, Dias took up the guitar very early and decided to abandon formal studies at 13 to dedicate himself solely to mus...