Biography:

Luiz Antônio Schiavon Pereira ( São Paulo , October 5 , 1958 – Osasco , June 15 , 2023 ) was a Brazilian composer and instrumentalist , best known as a founding member of the São Paulo musical group RPM ^[ 1 ] , of which he was a composer and arranger of almost every song.

Son of merchant Edmundo Pereira and Dona Edméia, as a boy he wanted to practice judo , but his mother insisted that he study piano ^[ 2 ] . He graduated from the Mário de Andrade Conservatory in São Paulo in 1977. ^[ 3 ] He even attended the Faculty of Architecture . ^[ 3 ]

He started playing in a Deep Purple cover band , on the day the group broke up he met Paulo Ricardo , with whom he would form RPM. ^[ 2 ] Before RPM, they created Aura, with a strong influence of progressive rock , which lasted about a year and a half. ^[ 3 ]

He was the first person in the country, in 1985, to put a computer on stage, with synthesizers being his trademark. ^[ 2 ]

After the end of RPM, he is part of a pop-rock band called Projeto “S”. Only one album was released on an independent label, selling 15,000 copies. ^{[ 2 ] [ 3 ]}

In 1991, he signed with the Stilleto label, specializing in dance music . A single was released , named Alice no País do Espelh o, with vocals divided between singer Patrícia Coelho and vocalist Tzaga Silos . ^{[ 2 ] [ 3 ]}

In 1992, he was invited to develop a complex work of outdoor concerts, more or less along the lines of presentations by the French keyboardist Jean-Michel Jarre , aimed at large audiences and with interference in cities, using elements of architecture for projections and music stations. lasers . This project lasted 2 years, sponsored by Bamerindus , with around 40 performances throughout southern Brazil , from São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul , culminating in a show in Curitiba , at the delivery of the restored Palácio Avenida , for 50,000 spectators. With the end of this project, Luís prefers to leave the stage for good. ^{[2 ] [ 3 ]}

In 1996 he began a new type of work, composing soundtracks for soap operas on Rede Globo , being responsible for the soundtracks for O Rei do Gado , Terra Nostra , Esperança , Madre Maria . ^[ 3 ]

In 2002, he returned to RPM to work on MTV and tour for almost two years. ^[ 2 ]

In 2004, together with the ex- RPM guitarist Fernando Deluqui , they form the band LS&D, in which the track “Madrigal” is chosen to be the opening song of the soap opera on TV Globo Cabocla . With LS&D they released only one album. ^[ 2 ]

From 2004 to 2010, he directed the band on Domingão do Faustão , a weekly program aired by Rede Globo on Sundays. ^{[ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]}

In 2011, he returns to a new project with RPM, where he releases the double album Elektra and they go on tour for 5 years. ^[ 2 ]

A year later, in 2018, 3 of the 4 members of RPM decide that the band should continue without Paulo Ricardo, who prefers to continue his solo career . ^[ 2 ]

Between 2020 and 2022, he left RPM activities for 18 months due to an undisclosed autoimmune disease. ^{[ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ]}

On June 15, 2023, he was hospitalized again in a hospital in Osasco , in Greater São Paulo , due to a surgical intervention, he could not resist and died at the age of 64. ^[ 10 ]

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