Gabriel o Pensador Age, Net Worth, Family, Height, Wiki

Biography

Rapper whose first 4 albums, Gabriel o Pensador, Ainda É só o Começo, Quebra-Cabeça, and Nádegas a Declarar, went primary on the Brazilian charts. He has greater than 1.1 million followers on his gabrielopensadoroficial Instagram account. Coming from a middle-class household, a novel background amongst Brazilian rappers, Gabriel, the son of a well-known journalist in Brazil, hit fame in 1992 with the music “Tô Feliz (Matei o Presidente)” (“I’m completely satisfied, I’ve killed the president”), the debut single from his first and eponymous album. This music was written in protest of President Fernando Collor de Mello and his corrupt administration. Gabriel’s mom was Collor’s press secretary. The identical album additionally yielded different hits, together with “Lôrabúrra” (“Dumb Blonde”, shortened) and “Retrato de um Playboy” (“Portrait of a Playboy”), bringing hip hop mainstream consideration in Brazil by catering to the center class. Though rapping about on a regular basis life, Gabriel additionally discovered time to speak about social injustices along with his fourth single, “O Resto do Mundo” (“The Leftovers of the World”, a pun on the phrase for “leftovers” and “relaxation” being the identical in Portuguese), a extra downbeat monitor about homeless life, with a purposefully depressive melody and move. Gabriel was “infamous for his biting assaults on a few of the main ills of Brazilian society: poverty, racism, violence.”.

He married Ana Lima from 1999 to 2009. Their kids are Davi and Tom.

In 1994, whereas touring in Portugal, Gabriel’s music “Lavagem Cerebral” (Brainwashing) was obtained with a lot reward. The piece was accepted as “a robust social critique of Brazilian society and of the ideology of the dominating courses.”