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Chiclete Com Banana
Biography
With 20 albums recorded from 1981 to 2000, several gold and platinum records, and an intensive booking for its shows during the whole year through Brazil, Chiclete com Banana is a highly successful band centered in the Carnival of Bahia as it is understood currently. Chiclete com Banana started as a band as Banda Scorpius, which played in parties and graduation balls in the late '70s. The early formation was Bell Marques, who played the keyboards and sang English-language songs by Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney, and Elton John, Wadinho and Rey played the guitar. The first time the band experimented with the trio elétrico (the sound truck invented by Dodô and Osmar) was in 1980 in the Carnival bloco (group) Trás os Montes. In the next year, sound engineer Wilson Marques (Bell and Wadinho's brother) designed a different trio elétrico, closing the truck's flanks with sound boxes and using transistorized amplification. That way, the musicians could play on the top of the truck, gaining visibility, which was an applauded change for a kind of entertainment heavily dependent on visual performance. In 1982, they were invited by the Barcarola company to record the first album, Trio Elétrico Traz Os Montes & Chiclete com Banana.