Jota Quest
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Jota Quest is a Brazil
ian pop rock
band. The band was founded in 1995, in Belo Horizonte
, Minas Gerais
as J. Quest, but due to trademark issues with Hanna-Barbera
, they renamed themselves Jota Quest (jota being the Portuguese name for the letter j). The band members include: Rogério Flausino (vocals), Marco Túlio
(guitar), Márcio Buzelin (keyboards), "PJ" - Paulo Roberto Diniz, Jr. (bass) and Paulinho Fonseca (drums). Jota Quest initially stood apart from Minas Gerais' musical tradition by garnering national success with pop rock and blue eyed soul-tinged pop
. Eventually the band exposed its Clube da Esquina
influences, including collaborations with Minas Gerais exponents Paulinho Pedra Azul and Milton Nascimento
in Oxigenio as well as jams with 14 Bis and a collaboration with Roberto Carlos
over his hit single "Alem do Horizonte". Jota Quest sold over 4,000,000 copies in Brazil, Latin America and Portugal.
song). The album's title song was "De Volta ao Planeta" (the "Planet", in this case referring to Planet of the Apes
) with monkey noises backgrounding its chorus. The album became a Brazilian best-seller. This tour was marked for the first Brazilian Solar Energy supplied live show, a project with Greenpeace
. In 2009, the title track of the album was used in the hugely successful telenovela Caras & Bocas
, resulting in the song receiving moderate airplay on Brazilan radio and a short stay on the national charts.
. The band tried a new direction on its third record, an ecological oriented and experimental release called Oxigênio ("Oxygen"). It moved away from the dance floor, with increased production values, experimental songwriting and sponsored by the greatest Coca Cola marketing campaign in Latin America
. The Brazilian GRAMMY winner singer Milton Nascimento
recorded with the band on this album the song "Destes Tantos Modos". Although the album went Platinum it is largely considered a hodgepodge.
With the success of the last record, the Jota Quest recorded on days 1 and 2 of May 2003, the CD and DVD "MTV live" at the Praça do Papa, in Belo Horizonte, broadcasted by MTV Brazil. First live record of the group, "MTV live" gathered the biggest hits of the band and also had the special participation of Arnaldo Antunes and Thaíde. In the same year, they were the only ones in Latin America to be invited to participate in the soundtrack of the movie Spider-Man 2, that also had a version for the cartoon (re-recorded earlier by Ramones and Aerosmith). The lyrics were made by Rogério Flausino .
of Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos
's "Além do Horizonte" ("Beyond the Horizon") which became a major hit. The album produced a further string of hit singles, all receiving heavy rotation on Brazilian radio stations, including: "O Sol" ("The Sun"), "Palavras De Um Futuro Bom" at the tail-end of 2006, and most recently "Já Foi" in the first half of 2007. This album was a 7th Annual Latin GRAMMY nominated.
Lead singer Rogerio Flausino was also invited to sing in English on electronic dance act Layo and Bushwacka's 2006 album.
In 2007, Rogério Flausino received the Multishow Award for being the best singer in Brazil. In the same year on August 13, he became a father, having her first daughter, Nina.
The "Até Onde Vai" toure were the longest one of Jota Quest.
In late July, the third single “Seis e Trinta" (Six-Thirty) was released on the radio and the music video came out in September.
At the end of November 2009 is released the ballad "Único Olhar", the seventh track of La Plata. In 2010 and is released "Tudo me faz lembar você" (Everything reminds me of you) as the soundtrack of the film “Muita Calma Nessa Hora”.
In the second half of 2010, the Jota Quest launched to the Hispanic market their first Spanish album, entitled “Dias Mejores”. The album was released first in Argentina.
In early March 2011, the Jota Quest announced a tour commemorating the 15-year career. The "J15 - 15 Anos na Moral" is a kind of party with 5 hours of duration, where the band will present a three-hour show with three new tracks. The project will be released on CD / DVD. The “Quinze” collection was released in May and has two CDs and 30 tracks, among three hits and new songs.
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian pop rock
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...
band. The band was founded in 1995, in Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
, Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
as J. Quest, but due to trademark issues with Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...
, they renamed themselves Jota Quest (jota being the Portuguese name for the letter j). The band members include: Rogério Flausino (vocals), Marco Túlio
Marco Tulio
Marco Tulio Lopes Silva is an Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Uberlandia.Marco Túlio previously played for Albirex Niigata in Japan in the J...
(guitar), Márcio Buzelin (keyboards), "PJ" - Paulo Roberto Diniz, Jr. (bass) and Paulinho Fonseca (drums). Jota Quest initially stood apart from Minas Gerais' musical tradition by garnering national success with pop rock and blue eyed soul-tinged pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
. Eventually the band exposed its Clube da Esquina
Clube da Esquina
Clube da Esquina was a Brazilian music artists collective, originating in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It is also the name of a double album from 1972...
influences, including collaborations with Minas Gerais exponents Paulinho Pedra Azul and Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
in Oxigenio as well as jams with 14 Bis and a collaboration with Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos (singer)
Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....
over his hit single "Alem do Horizonte". Jota Quest sold over 4,000,000 copies in Brazil, Latin America and Portugal.
1995 - 1997
The group played their first show as J. Quest inspired by the cartoon Jonny Quest, the idea bassist PJ (though none of the members was a fan of that Cartoon). At the time, the group played through the circuit of bars and schools of Belo Horizonte and gathered more than 2,000 people per show. With this, the band was gaining ground. Next the contract with Sony Music came, and then the first official CD was released in August 1996. The bar band's most successful song is their rendition of "As Dores do Mundo" ("Pains of the World"), a huge hit by Bahian soulman Hyldon in the '70s. It quickly entered the charts, followed by other singles, while the band toured Brazil. On this first tour, the band members came on stage wearing "black power" wigs. Another hit from their first album was "Encontrar Alguém" ("To Meet Someone"), a very disco. Even with the success, it took a while to they be shown on television. On January 11, 1997, they were invited by the presenter Xuxa to perform at what was then called "Xuxa Hits", belonged to Rede Globo television. It was the first performance of Jota Quest on TV.1998 - 1999
The band's second release was De Volta ao Planeta ("Back to the Planet"), more conventionally poprock, spawning more hit singles, especially the signature song "Fácil" ("Easy" - no relation to the CommodoresCommodores
The Commodores are an American funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour...
song). The album's title song was "De Volta ao Planeta" (the "Planet", in this case referring to Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes (1968 film)
Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle. The film stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly and Linda Harrison...
) with monkey noises backgrounding its chorus. The album became a Brazilian best-seller. This tour was marked for the first Brazilian Solar Energy supplied live show, a project with Greenpeace
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
. In 2009, the title track of the album was used in the hugely successful telenovela Caras & Bocas
Caras & Bocas
Caras & Bocas is a Brazilian soap opera broadcast by the Globo network. It is the second-most watched soap opera in Brazil.- Cast :Kid actorsIntroducingSpecial guest starGuest actressesGuest actors- National :...
, resulting in the song receiving moderate airplay on Brazilan radio and a short stay on the national charts.
2000 - 2001
A relative commercial failure, due to the band's previous sales figures, their association with an Internet provider (which bankrupted) as well as advertising for FantaFanta
Fanta is a global brand of fruit-flavored carbonated soft drinks from the Coca-Cola Company. There are over 90 flavors worldwide. The drink debuted in Germany in 1941 and originally sold only in Europe.-History:...
. The band tried a new direction on its third record, an ecological oriented and experimental release called Oxigênio ("Oxygen"). It moved away from the dance floor, with increased production values, experimental songwriting and sponsored by the greatest Coca Cola marketing campaign in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
. The Brazilian GRAMMY winner singer Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
recorded with the band on this album the song "Destes Tantos Modos". Although the album went Platinum it is largely considered a hodgepodge.
2001 - 2004
In 2001, they returned to their original formula with bass guitar grooves, funk rock guitar riffs and beautiful lyrics with Discotecagem Pop Variada ("Eclectic Pop Disco"), their fourth album. Jota Quest recaped the bar band feeling with hits like "Na Moral" (In The Groove) and the ballad "Só Hoje" (Only Today). In 2002 Rogério Flausino was invited by Disney to sing the Brazilian version of the Treasure Planet’s soundtrack. The song is called Estou Aqui (I'm Still Here in English).With the success of the last record, the Jota Quest recorded on days 1 and 2 of May 2003, the CD and DVD "MTV live" at the Praça do Papa, in Belo Horizonte, broadcasted by MTV Brazil. First live record of the group, "MTV live" gathered the biggest hits of the band and also had the special participation of Arnaldo Antunes and Thaíde. In the same year, they were the only ones in Latin America to be invited to participate in the soundtrack of the movie Spider-Man 2, that also had a version for the cartoon (re-recorded earlier by Ramones and Aerosmith). The lyrics were made by Rogério Flausino .
2005 - 2008
Ten years after launching the first CD, the band was consolidated in the Brazilian pop rock’s scenario. Altogether there were five CDs, thousands of shows and attendance records all over Brazil, presentations in the U.S. and recently in Europe, where they attended the opening of the Rock in Rio Lisboa (Lisbon), sharing the stage with Carlos Santana and Roger Waters. After four years without releasing a CD with new material, the group got isolated in his studio in Belo Horizonte to record the album Até Onde Vai (How far it goes), which arrived at the stores in October 2005, and since then, remains between the country's best-selling CDs. The album fused rock and funk elements and contained their cover versionCover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos
Roberto Carlos (singer)
Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....
's "Além do Horizonte" ("Beyond the Horizon") which became a major hit. The album produced a further string of hit singles, all receiving heavy rotation on Brazilian radio stations, including: "O Sol" ("The Sun"), "Palavras De Um Futuro Bom" at the tail-end of 2006, and most recently "Já Foi" in the first half of 2007. This album was a 7th Annual Latin GRAMMY nominated.
Lead singer Rogerio Flausino was also invited to sing in English on electronic dance act Layo and Bushwacka's 2006 album.
In 2007, Rogério Flausino received the Multishow Award for being the best singer in Brazil. In the same year on August 13, he became a father, having her first daughter, Nina.
The "Até Onde Vai" toure were the longest one of Jota Quest.
2008 - Present (2011)
In 2008, the band released the album La Plata, recorded in the studio Iron Ore, after three years of their last record. The CD quickly become successful on the radio with the songs "La Plata", which was on the soundtrack of TV Globo’s soap opera "Cama de Gato", and the ballad "Vem Andar Comigo" (Come Walk With Me), very well played, and theme of the Soup Opera “Caras e Bocas”,In late July, the third single “Seis e Trinta" (Six-Thirty) was released on the radio and the music video came out in September.
At the end of November 2009 is released the ballad "Único Olhar", the seventh track of La Plata. In 2010 and is released "Tudo me faz lembar você" (Everything reminds me of you) as the soundtrack of the film “Muita Calma Nessa Hora”.
In the second half of 2010, the Jota Quest launched to the Hispanic market their first Spanish album, entitled “Dias Mejores”. The album was released first in Argentina.
In early March 2011, the Jota Quest announced a tour commemorating the 15-year career. The "J15 - 15 Anos na Moral" is a kind of party with 5 hours of duration, where the band will present a three-hour show with three new tracks. The project will be released on CD / DVD. The “Quinze” collection was released in May and has two CDs and 30 tracks, among three hits and new songs.
Members
- Rogerio Flausino - vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
- Paulo Roberto Diniz, Jr. (PJ) - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Marcio Buzelin - keyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Paulinho Fonseca - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Marco TulioMarco TulioMarco Tulio Lopes Silva is an Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Uberlandia.Marco Túlio previously played for Albirex Niigata in Japan in the J...
- GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
Albums
- 1996 - J. Quest - 200.000 (Gold)
- 1998 - De Volta ao Planeta - 800.000 (3x Platinum)
- 2000 - Oxigênio - 400.000 (2x Platinum)
- 2001 - Discotecagem Pop Variada - 500.000 (2x Platinum)
- 2005 - Até Onde VaiAté Onde VaiAté onde Vai is a studio album recorded by Brazilian pop-rock/black music quintet Jota Quest. It was released in 2005.-Track listing:# "Libere a Mente"# "Sunshine in Ipanema"# "Além do Horizonte"# "Até Onde Vai"# "O Sol"...
- 150.000 (Platinum) - 2008 - La Plata - 40.000
Live
- 2003 - MTV ao Vivo - 800.000 (Disco de Platina-Triplo)
- 2005 - Rio de Janeiro, 28 January 2005 (limited) - 100.000 (Gold)
- 2009 - Festival de Verão Salvador
Hits
- "As Dores do Mundo" from J. Quest
- "Encontrar Alguem" from J. Quest
- "Onibusfobia" from J. Quest
- "Facil" from De Volta ao Planeta
- "Sempre Assim" from De Volta ao Planeta
- "O Vento" from De Volta ao Planeta
- "Oxigenio" from Oxigenio
- "Dias Melhores" from Oxigenio
- "O que Eu Tambem nao Entendo" from Oxigenio
- "Na Moral" from Discotecagem Pop Variada
- "So Hoje" from Discotecagem Pop Variada
- "Mais Uma Vez" from Discotecagem Pop Variada
- "Amor Maior" from MTV ao Vivo
- "Do seu Lado" from MTV ao Vivo
- "Alem do Horizonte" from Ate Onde Vai
- "O Sol" from Ate Onde Vai
- "Palavras de Um Futuro Bom" from Ate Onde Vai
External links
- Jota Quest official website (Portuguese)
- Dicionario Cravo Musica Popular Brasileira http://www.dicionariocravoalbin.com.br/respBusca.asp?busca=jota%20quest&pagina=1 (Portuguese)