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Amazing Brazilian band: rock/pop/reggae.
Video at You Tube,name of the song is "Te Ver":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEzVj-8oQGM
Skank is a Brazilian pop rock/reggae band. The band was born in 1991, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
Calango (1994)Calango (1994) was the first record produced by Dudu Marote. "É Proibido Fumar", "Te Ver", "Pacato Cidadão", "Esmola" and "Jackie Tequila" were hits, and Calango sold around 1,200,000 copies.
<h3> O Samba Poconé (1996)</h3>O Samba Poconé was released in 1996. "Garota Nacional" (in the original Portuguese), from O Samba Poconé, topped the Spanish charts for three months<sup> </sup>and took the group on tour in Argentina, Chile, United States, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Portugal. Although "Garota Nacional" literally translates to "national girl", the song is not about the women of Brazil: it celebrates the "girls of Bar Nacional", a bar and nightclub in Belo Horizonte famous in the early 1990s for the beauty of its female patrons. Manu Chao featured in "Sem Terra", "Los Pretos" e "Zé Trindade". "O Samba Poconé" sold 1,800,000 cópias - 800,000 of those in two months. "Garota Nacional" was the only Portuguese language song in the Sony Music compilation Soundtrack For a Century, released in 1997 to celebrate the company's centennial.
Skank received the Premio Ondas in Spain as New Latin Group in 1997. They also won the MTV Video Music Brasil award in 1996 ("Garota Nacional") and 1997 ("É Uma Partida de Futebol"). In 1998 FIFA included "É Uma Partida de Futebol" in the official soundtrack for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Cosmotron (2003)
Cosmotron, produced by Skank and Tom Capone, was released in July 2003 and sold 250 thousand copies. "Supernova", "Dois Rios", "Vou Deixar" and "Amores Imperfeitos" were the main tracks. Cosmotron won the Latin Grammy - best Brazilian rock album award in 2004. "Dois Rios" received the MTV Video Music Brasil Viewer's Choice award - best pop video in 2003.
Released in October 2004, Radiola is the first compilation album by Skank. It included four new songs, including the Gilberto Gil cover "Vamos Fugir". The cover reproduces a painting by the underground Los Angeles artists The Clayton Brothers. Radiola sold 200 thousand copies.
<h3>Carrossel (2006)</h3>
In March 2006 Skank began recording the new album Carrossel in their studio in Belo Horizonte, with producers Chico Neves, who also worked in Maquinarama, and Carlos Eduardo Miranda, producer the Acústico MTV album by O Rappa. Released in August, the album had the hits "Uma Canção É Pra Isso" and "Mil Acasos". Arnaldo Antunes ("Trancoso"), César Mauricio ("Lugar") and Humberto Effe ("Cara Nua" and "Notícia") were new songwriting partners. Carrossel was the fifth best-selling album in São Paulo in 2006, peaking at second place.
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