Biography:

Edgar Pozzer ( Caxias do Sul , RS , 1938 ) is a singer of Brazilian and international music. Of Italian descent, he was the first singer from Rio Grande do Sul to perform a repertoire of Italian songs, which he did, in addition to the media, at the Girasole bar, today a pub . At the age of 10, he won first place in a radio contest with the song “Sing, sing bird”. At the age of 19, he won the state stage of the “A Voz de Ouro ABC” contest, by Tupi and Difusora radio stations. Then he signed a contract with Rádio Farroupilha and started to command a weekly television program on TV Piratini ( Edgar Pozzer and the music). For fifteen years she sang in Conjunto Norberto Baldauf, brightening the Bailes da Rectoria (from URGS ). She defended the song Pandeiro de Prata, by Túlio Piva, winner of II Festival Sul-Brasileiro de MPB, re-presented in O Brasil Canta no Rio in Rio de Janeiro. In his career, which continues, he recorded three LPs and five CDs. He is an honorary citizen of Porto Alegre . ^[ 1 ] Assuming an environmentalist role, he is the author of Marcha das Corujas , which alludes to the episode of preservationist clash on Capão da Canoa beach. ^[ 2 ]

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