Pouca Vogal is a side project created by Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese.-Overview:Rock entered the Brazilian music scene in 1956, with the screening of the film The Blackboard Jungle, featuring Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", which would later be covered in Portuguese by Nora...

 singers gauchos Duca Leindecker (Leader and guitarist of the band Cidadão Quem) and Humberto Gessinger

Humberto Gessinger

Humberto Gessinger is the singer and bassist of the Brazilian band Engenheiros do Hawaii.Gessinger was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In late 1984, he formed a rock band with two friends from the faculty of architecture at UFRGS, Carlos Maltz and Marcelo Pitz, to play in a parade made by students...

 (Leader and bassist of the group Engenheiros do Hawaii

Engenheiros do Hawaii

Engenheiros do Hawaii is a Brazilian rock band formed in Porto Alegre in 1985 that achieved great popularity with their ironic, critically charged songs with heavily semantic lyrics often relying on wordplays...

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Early years

Friends since the late '80s, and Humberto Gessinger and Duca Leindecker are band-leaders of two of the biggest bands in rock gaucho, the Engenheiros do Hawaii and Cidadão Quem.

In 2008, both bands ended their tours of disks (Novos Horizontes, acoustic album released by the Engenheiros do Hawaii in 2007, and 7, studio album Cidadão Quem, released in 2006), interrupting the activities of the bands and making possible the realization of the project, has long envisioned by the singers.

Pouca Vogal - Gessinger + Leindecker (2008–09)

The duo has recorded eight songs in electro-acoustic arrangements, which were released on the official website of the group and gave rise to album Pouca Vogal - Gessinger + Leindecker. After the recording of them, the duo has been touring several cities in Brazil.

Ao Vivo em Porto Alegre (2009–present)

In March 2009, the duo recorded the CD, DVD

DVD

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 and Blu-ray Ao Vivo em Porto Alegre in the theater of CIEE, the capital of Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre

Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...

. The show brings together music of Engenheiros do Hawaii and the Cidadão Quem, besides the songs that the pair wrote in 2008. Besides the songs, the DVD has the shares in Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil, and the state with the fifth highest Human Development Index in the country. In this state is located the southernmost city in the country, Chuí, on the border with Uruguay. In the region of Bento Gonçalves and Caxias do Sul, the largest wine...

 PoA Pops orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Fernando Cordella, with arrangements by James Kreutzer, and bassist Luciano Leindecker (brother of Duca and bassist Cidadão Quem) playing the bass and an instrument created by him, called quince.

Recorded independently, there was an interval of nine months between its recording and its release through the label Som Livre

Som Livre

Som Livre is a Brazilian record company that was founded by Rede Globo in 1969 to commercialize its soap opera soundtracks, later expanding to record studio albums....

 (connected to the Globo

Organizações Globo

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Current members

• Humberto Gessinger
  Humberto Gessinger
  Humberto Gessinger is the singer and bassist of the Brazilian band Engenheiros do Hawaii.Gessinger was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In late 1984, he formed a rock band with two friends from the faculty of architecture at UFRGS, Carlos Maltz and Marcelo Pitz, to play in a parade made by students...
  
   - lead vocals, classical guitar
  Classical guitar
  The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
  
  , viola caipira, harmonic
  Harmonic
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  , piano
  Piano
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  , percussion instrument
  Percussion instrument
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  , midi pedalboard, dobro
  Dobro
  Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...
  
  
• Duca Leindecker - lead vocals, electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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  , classical guitar, pandeirola, bass drum
  Bass drum
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Guest musicians

• Carlos Maltz - percussion instrument, lead vocals
• Luciano Leindecker - bass
  Bass (instrument)
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• Borguetinho - sanfona

Discography

Studio albums

• Pouca Vogal - Gessinger + Leindecker (2008)

Live albums

• Ao Vivo Em Porto Alegre (2009)