bio

Roberto Goncalves a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, began playing lead and rhythm guitar in clubs in 1982. Fouder of Saturno V first Free Jazz Band of Sao Paulo. He also toured Brazil with important artists such as Perla and Rosa Morena. Founder of "Origem Productions" responsible for composing and production of jingles for corporations like "Estrela," "Coppertone" and many others, and also produced and recorded the albums Bucaneira , Maria Alcina and Blues e Derivados, Nuno Mindelis. After coming to United States, Florida, in 1992, Roberto performed in shows with renown Brazilian Artists such as Luiz Airao , Eduardo Dusek, Eliana Pitman and Marquinhos Sata.
Came to Atlanta in 1996 and graduated at AIM (Atlanta Institute of Music) with a degree in Guitar Performance. He played acoustic guitar on Linda Ramson's CD Remember When. And played in gigs around town as well. 1997 started to work as a free lancer music producer for Turner Network writing and producing numerous music tracks for promos winning 4 Promax TV prizes and also composing the entire soundtrack for "Terra a Vista" an animated soap opera for Cartoon Network Latin America.
Roberto is also a co founder of the Brazilian Jazz Band Tropicus 22 that performed in important venues here in the city of Atlanta such as the Atlanta Jazz Festival, year 2000 and 2001. and some festivals in Nashville. In the year of 2000 he joined the band that was performing at the Loca Luna, together with Drew Duddley, Juan Bonini, Vlamir Abbud and Andre Rievers, which turned into Rua 6 and produced their first CD.
Beginning of year 2002 he went to Brazil and joined Bananeira Band in a two and a half months tour to Monaco. Back from Europe he played in different groups in Sao Paulo, Brazil such as Grooveland (old school funk band) and Tao Banda (all original pop music band) end of 2002 and all 2003. He started to record his own CD.
Now back in Atlanta, USA, beginning of 2004, he plays in regular gigs around town, and also produced Valerie Hines' newest CD, circle, and Serenata Band' s CD (Latin Jazz) as well. August 2005 he begun the one and only Brazilian Music radio show in Atlanta - Brazilian Waves- He now is releasing his first CD solo Destino (December/2005) and leading Tropicus Band. Roberto is always ready for good music.