NIGRO: the history
It all started with a solo project by Carlos Nigro where he takes his last name, but he had to call musicians to accompany him, and now they continue as a band, but by mutual agreement, but it continues to take the last name of the singer from São Paulo. The project started in 2018 with the song “Only For Today”, and in 2019 bassist Anderson Shelby and guitarist Wagner Wolf joined the band, where they were writing and preparing for the release of the EP that would be released in mid-2020, which was postponed, and that same year keyboardist Vagner Brentan joined the band, and Shelby left the band. The long-awaited EP comes out in 2021 and between that year and 2022 Flavio Santana (drums) and Lucas Ramirez (bass) joined the band to compose the Line-up, and that same year, due to personal problems, Brentan left the band leaving the vacancy open and the band enters the writing and recording process for the first Full Length. Trying to bring back the magic of AOR that bewitched the world, to the sound of the 80s.
Carlos Nigro
Lead Vocal
He started singing as a teenager and attending choirs to improve himself, singing in the Madrigal “Cantate Domino”, and in the “Sociedade Pró Música Sacra do Estado de São Paulo”, passing through countless bands of little expression, his influences are numerous, but to name a few: Geoff Tate, Michael Kiske, André Mattos, Eric Adams, DC Cooper and in the midst of AOR, Jimi Jamison, Steve Perry, Steve Lukather, Mark Free among many others.
Wagner Wolf
All Guitars
He started playing at age 12, when he got his first guitar. Always playing solo until he saw the 1986 film "Trick or Treat" with songs by Fastway, he decided what he wanted to do as a musician. At 18 he bought his first guitar. He participated in some projects and copyright covers. In 2019 he met C. Nigro who invited him to play in the Dream Warriors Dokken Tribute, and soon also invited him to his authorial project.
Flávio Santana
Drums
At the age of 15 he started playing drums, and creating some compositions as well. Starting and passing through some bands such as: Desimator, Living Fear, The Lords and HardEve, Coral from Vila Lobos Conservatory, Fusca N' Roll, among other bands, winning some festivals, and important works by these bands. Numerous influences on music.
Lucas Ramirez
Bass Guitar
He had his first contacts with music teaching in his adolescence, through learning classical guitar, passing through the guitar, becoming the base guitarist of some covers bands, which did not last long, where they played mainly heavy metal at the beginning, but little by little they were absorbing more and more influences from hard rock and AOR. He also became interested for a period in choral singing, coming to participate in the "Coral Martin Luther", of the Church of the Lutheran Confession of São Paulo. After a long hiatus from music, he became interested in teaching the double bass, which is his main instrument today. His main influences on bass are Geddy Lee, Chris Squire, Ray Schulman, John Wetton, Dave Hope, Ralph Armstrong, Roly Wynne, among others.
