Chico and Roberta

Chico and Roberta

Infobox musical artist
Name = Chico and Roberta


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Origin = France, Brazil
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Years_active = 1989-1993
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Chico and Roberta was a Franco-Brazilian duet founded in 1989.

Biography

The duet was composed of two children - a Brazilian boy from Bahia, Chico (born 1976), and a Brazilian girl from Brasília, Roberta (born 1979) - who had featured in the 1989 Kaoma's videoclip: "Lambada". The duet had the same producer, Jean-Claude Bonaventure, as the Brazilian group. All their songs were composed by Loalwa Braz,(from Rio de Janeiro and Kaoma' singer), Daniel Darras, Alan Pype, Bonaventure, M. Nogueira and themselves [Elia Habib, "Muz hit. tubes", p. 197 (ISBN 2-9518832-0-X)] .

At the end of 1990, Chico and Roberta had a great success with their album "Frente a Frente", which was certified Gold album, and their first two singles "Frente a Frente" and "Esperança do natal" (a song for Christmas), also certified gold disc by the French certificator, the SNEP, in 1991 [Chico and Roberta's certifications [http://www.chartsinfrance.net/certifications/artiste-740.html Chartsinfrance.net] (Retrieved February 10, 2008)] . These singles were listed in the highest positions for several weeks on French SNEP Singles Chart [Peak positions of Chico and Roberta's singles [http://lescharts.com/search.asp?cat=s&search=Chico+Roberta Lescharts.com] (Retrieved February 10, 2008)] . According to Infodisc website, these songs were sold respectively about 322,000 and 228,000 copies [Sales of Chico and Roberta's singles (see 'Certifications', at left) [http://www.infodisc.fr/S_Certif.php Infodisc.fr] (Retrieved February 10, 2008)] .

The duet recorded all the songs in Portuguese language, and they performed them in several French TV shows at the time.

After these hits, the two children's musical career stopped suddenly [Elia Habib, "Muz hit. tubes", p. 204 (ISBN 2-9518832-0-X)] . Chico (real name Uoston) became a priest of a protestant church and he is married living in Espírito Santo. Roberta got married and lives in Brasília.

Discography

ingles

* "Frente a Frente" (1990) - #5
* "Esperança do Natal" (1991) - #3
* "Festa no mar" (1992) - #18

Album

* "Frente a Frente"

External links

* [http://www.bide-et-musique.com/artist/4283.html Chico and Roberta, on Bide et Musique]
* [http://chico-et-roberta.sont-ici.org/ Site about Chico and Roberta]

References


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