Post by Henny Macc on Apr 24, 2020 3:52:27 GMT
André Coelho Matos (September 14, 1971 - June 8, 2019)
Years active: 1985-2019
Country of origin: Brazil
Recorded vocal range: G2-C6 - 3.4 octaves
Band history:
- 1985-1990 - Viper (lead vocals)
- 1991-2000 - Angra (lead vocals, keyboards)
- 1999-2002 - Looking-Glass-Self (lead vocals)
- 2000-2005 - Shaman (lead vocals, keyboards)
- 2001 - Virgo (lead vocals, keyboards)
- 2005-2006 - Shaman (lead vocals, keyboards)
- 2006-2019 - Andre Matos (lead vocals, keyboards)
- 2010-2011 - Symfonia (lead vocals)
- 2012-2016 - Viper (lead vocals)
- 2018-2019 - Shaman (lead vocals, keyboards)
Recorded high notes:
B5: "Wuthering Heights" demo
A♯5/B♭5: "Don't Despair" live at Circo Voador 1994, "Wuthering Heights"A5: "Blind Spell", "Blood of My Enemies live 1996, "Carry On" demo, "Fire" live São Paulo 2002, "Flight of Icarus" live Rio de Janeiro 1995, "Living for the Night" live at Via Marquês 2013, "Make Believe", "Painkiller", "Pride", "Queen of the Night", "Remember Why", "Rescue", "Ritual", "The Last Hero", "Time" demo, "White Lion of Goldah"
G♯5/A♭5: "A New Moonlight", "A Touch of Evil" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Carry On", "Demonheart", "Endeavour", "Evil Warning" live Aeroanta 1995, "Fields of Avalon", "Flight of Icarus" live Codevilla 2009, "Inside" live Buenos Aires 2008, "I Want Out" live Japan 2005, Lemmy impression live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Letting Go", "Living for the Night" live São Paulo 2003, "Moonlight", "Painkiller", "Time", "White Lion of Goldah"
G5: "Aces High" live Milano 2010, "Angels Cry" demo, "At Least a Chance", "Battle Hymn" live Rio de Janeiro 1995, "Blizzard on a Broken Mirror", "Blood of My Enemies live 1996, "Carry On" demo, "Chalice of Agony" live 2004, "Distant Thunder", "Don't Despair", "Endeavour", "Evil Warning" demo, "Hallowed Be Thy Name", "Letting Go", "Lisbon" live São Paulo 2003, "Make Believe", "Metal Icarus" live at Olympia 1998, "Nothing to Say", "Over the Fire", "Over Your Head", "Painkiller", "Petrified Eyes", "Prelude to Oblivion", "Prince with 1,000 Enemies", "Reach Out for the Light" live 2011, "Remember Why", "Request", "Rock and Roll" live 2005, "Running Free" live Rio de Janeiro 1995, "Run to the Hills" live 2008, "Queen of the Night", "Reaching Horizons", "Rio", "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)", "Speed", "Theatre of Fate", "Time to Be Free", "Turn Away" live at Credicard Hall 2005, "Victim of Changes" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "White Lion of Goldah", "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" live at Covernation de Verão 2005
F♯5/G♭5: "Carry On", "Chalice of Agony" live 2004, "Chega de Saudade" live acoustic Paris 1995, "Demonheart", "Endeavour", "Evil Warning" alternate version, "Face the End", "Fairy Tale", "Fields of Avalon", "Fire" live São Paulo 2002, "I Hold the Key" live Milano 1996, "In Paradisum", "I Want Out" live Japan 2005, "I Will Return", "Love Is All", "Mystery Machine" live Belfort 1999, "Painkiller", "Pride", "Rebel Maniac" live Via Marquês 2012, "Rio", "Running Free" live Rio de Janeiro 1995, "Santiago", "Stand Away", "The Faithless and the Dreamer", "The Second Big Bang", "The Turn of the Lights", "Theatre of Fate", "The Mirror", "Unreplaceable", "Venas de Acero", vocal warm-ups, "Wuthering Heights" demo, "Z.I.T.O."
F5: "Alexandria", "A New Moonlight", "At Least a Chance", "Bohemian Rhapsody" live Gravatal 2010, "Burn" live Codevilla 2009, "Carry On", "Closer", "Crazy Me?", "Cycle", "Endeavour", "Evil Warning" demo, "For Tomorrow", "Future World" live São Paulo 1997, "How Long (Unleashed Away)", "In Paradisum", "I Want Out" live Japan 2005, "Letting Go", "Life Goes On", "Manowar" live France 1995,"Mentalize", "Metal Icarus", "Oratio" live São Paulo 2009, "Petrified Eyes", "Pilgrim Road", "Pride", "Reaching Horizons", "Remember Why", "Request", "Rescue", "Ritual", "Soulspell", "Spell" demo, "Stand Away", "Superstition" live Recife 2009, "Take Me Home", "The Last Hero", "The Speech", "Time" demo, "Theatre of Fate", "White Lion of Goldah", "Wuthering Heights"
E5: "A Cry from the Edge", "Acorazado Belgrano", "A New Moonlight", "Angels Cry" demo, "At Least a Chance", "Battle Hymn" live Rio de Janeiro 1995, "Before You Accuse Me" live Recife 2009, "Bem Aventurados", "Blind Spell", "Blood of My Enemies live 1996, "Blowing Away", "Breaking the Law" live Milano 2010, "Carolina IV", "Carry On", "Chalice of Agony" live 2004, "Closer", "Course of Life", "Discovery", "Distant Thunder", "Don't Despair", "Eagle Fly Free" live São Paulo 2003, "Evil Warning", "Eyes of Christ" demo, "Face the End", "Fields of Avalon", "Fight for Survival", "Fire" live São Paulo 2002, "Forever Is Too Long", "Forevermore", "Freedom Call", "Give Me All Your Love" live Codevilla 2009, "Hallowed Be Thy Name", "Here I Am", "H.R. (Heavy Rock)", "I Can't Quit You Baby" live Recife 2009, "I Got the Blues" live 2005, "Iron Maiden" live 2008, "Knights of Destruction", "Lasting Child", "Liberty", "Lisbon" live acoustic Milan 2008, "Living for the Night", "Looking Back", "Love Bites" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Make Believe", "Metal Icarus", "Moonlight", "Mystery Machine", "Never Understand" live acoustic Paris 1995, "No Need to Have an Answer", "No Return" live Czech Republic 2011, "Nothing to Say", "On Your Own", "Over Your Head", "Painkiller", "Power Stream", "Prelude to Oblivion", "Pride", "Prince with 1,000 Enemies", "Queen of the Night", "Reach Out for the Light" live 2011, "Rio", "Ritual", "Rock and Roll" live 2005, "Run to the Hills" live 2008, "Scarred Forever", "Scream", "Someone Else", "Streets of Tomorrow", "Superstition" live Recife 2009, sustained scream, "Theatre of Fate", "The Second Big Bang", "The Turn of the Lights", "Time", "Time to Be Free", "To Be", "To Live Again", "Trail of Tears", "Wasted Years" live Codevilla 2009, "Wings of Reality", "Wuthering Heights" demo, "Z.I.T.O."
D♯5/E♭5: "Angels and Demons" live Volenska Slatina 2016, "Angels Cry", "Another One Bites the Dust" live Porto Alegre 2011, "Blizzard on a Broken Mirror", "Bohemian Rhapsody" live Gravatal 2010, "Carry On", "Chalice of Agony" live 2004, "Crazy Me?", "Deep Blue", "Eden, Finally...", "Endeavour", "Evil Sight", "Evil Warning", "Eyes of Christ" demo, "For Tomorrow", "Freedom Call", "Future World" live São Paulo 1997, "Holy Diver" live Codevilla 2009, "In Paradisum", "I Walk in Neon", "I Want Out" live Japan 2005, "I Will Return", "Kamisama", "Lasting Child", "Letting Go", "Manowar" live France 1995, "Mirror of Me", "Mystery Machine", "Never Understand", "Oversoul", "Over the Fire", "Over Your Head", "Petrified Eyes", "Pilgrim Road", "Reach Out for the Light" live 2011, "Request", "Rescue", "Ritual", "River", "Stand Away", "Stop!", "Street of Babylon", "Streets of Tomorrow", "The Faithless and the Dreamer", "The Keeper", "The Last Hero", "The Second Big Bang", "The Spreading Soul Forever", "The Val'Paraiso Dreaming", "Time", "Time to Be Free", "Turn Away", "Unreplaceable", "Violence", "We Will Rock You" live at Rock in Rio 2013, "White Lion of Goldah", "Wuthering Heights"
D5: "Aces High" live Milano 2010 "A Cry from the Edge", "Alexandria", "A New Moonlight", "Angels Cry" demo, "Another Night Gets Longer", "A Touch of Evil" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Back to You", "Before You Accuse Me" live Recife 2009, "Blind Spell", "Blood of My Enemies live 1996, "Breaking the Law" live Milano 2010, "Burn" live Codevilla 2009, "Carolina IV", "Chega de Saudade" live acoustic Paris 1995, "Come by the Hills", "Course of Life", "Cycle", "Deep Blue", "Del Cielo a la Tierra", "Discovery", "Don't Despair", "Eden, Finally...", "Evil Warning", "Extreme Dream", "Face the End", "Fear of the Dark" live Milano 2010, "Fight for Survival", "Fireworks", "Follow the Way", "Forever Is Too Long", "For Tomorrow", "Hallowed Be Thy Name", "Heartbreaker" live Recife 2009, "Here I Am", "Hisame", "Holy Land", "How Long (Unleashed Away)", "I Believe Again", "I Don't Believe in Love", "I Got the Blues" live 2005, "I Hold the Key" live Milano 1996, "Innocence", "In Paradisum", "I Want It All" live Prato 2009, "Leading On", "Letting Go", "Life Goes On", "Light-Years", "Lisbon" live São Paulo 2003, "Live and Learn" demo, "Living for the Night", "Looking Back", "Love Is All", "Mentalize", "Moonlight", "Mystery Machine", "Never Understand", "No Return" live Czech Republic 2011, "On Your Own", "Over Your Head", "Painkiller", "Paradise", "Petrified Eyes", "Power Stream", "Prelude to Oblivion", "Pride", "Prince with 1,000 Enemies", "Pull Me Under" live Curitiba 2019, "Queen of the Night", "Rainy Nights", "Reaching Horizons", "Reach Out for the Light" live 2011, "Remember Why", "Rescue", "Rio", "Ritual", "River", "Rock the Night" live Codevilla 2009, "Run to the Hills" live 2008, "Santiago", "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)", "Shelter from the Rain" live 2011, "Shift the Night Away", "Signs of the Night", "Speed", "Spell" demo, "Stop!", "Strange Kind of Woman" live Recife 2009, "Streets of Tomorrow", "Superstition" live Recife 2009, "Take Me Home", "Tears of the Dragon" live São Paulo 2005, "Terra", "Theatre of Fate", "The Keeper", "The Last Hero", "The Mirror", "The Myriad", "The Shaman", "The Turn of the Lights", "Time" demo, "Time to Be Free", "Turn Away", "Violence", "White Summit", "Who Wants to Live Forever" live São Paulo 2009, "Wuthering Heights", "Z.I.T.O."
C♯5/D♭5: "Alayna", "Angels Cry", "Baby Doll", "Bem Aventurados", "Blind Spell", "Blizzard on a Broken Mirror", "Blowing Away", "Born to Be", "Carry On", "Chega de Saudade" live acoustic Paris 1995, "Come by the Hills", "Demonheart", "Eagle Fly Free" live São Paulo 2003, "Eden, Finally"...", "Equinox", "Evil Warning", "Eyes of Christ" demo, "Face the End", "Fields of Avalon", "Fight for Survival", "Fire" live São Paulo 2002, "Flight of Icarus" live Codevilla 2009, "Freedom Call", "Future World" live São Paulo 1997, "Gentle Change", "I'll Find My Way Home", "In Paradisum", "Inside", "I Walk in Neon", "I Want It All" live Prato 2009, "I Want Out" live Japan 2005, "I Will Return", "Kamisama", "Lasting Child", "Liberty", "Love Is All", "Make Believe", "Manowar" live France 1995, "More" live acoustic Milan 2008, "Mystery Machine", "Nevermore" live 2018, "Never Understand", "Nightmares", "No Need to Have an Answer", "No Return", "Oversoul", "Pilgrim Road", "Rhapsody in Black", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" live Bauru 2007, "Santiago", "Silence and Distance", "Someone Else", "Stand Away", "Stop!", "Strange Kind of Woman" live Recife 2009, "Streets of Tomorrow", "Symptom of the Universe" live 2004, "Talon's Last Hope", "Terra", "The Second Big Bang", "The Final Countdown" live Torino 2009, "The Myriad", "The Seven Angels", "The Tower", "The Turn of the Lights", "The Val'Paraiso Dreaming", "Time", "Time Will Come", "Unreplaceable", "Venas de Acero", "Violence", "Wuthering Heights", "Z.I.T.O."
C5: "A New Moonlight", "Angels and Demons" live Volenska Slatina 2016, "Another One Bites the Dust" live Porto Alegre 2011, "At Least a Chance", "Blowing Away", "Bohemian Rhapsody" live Gravatal 2010, "Breaking the Law" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Burn" live Codevilla 2009, "Carry On" demo, "Course of Life", "Crazy Me?", "Cycle", "Deep Blue", "Del Cielo a la Tierra", "Detect Myself", "Distant Thunder", "Endeavour", "Evil Sight", "Extreme Dream", "Eyes of Christ" demo, "Fairy Tale", "Fireworks", "Follow the Way', "Forever Is Too Long", "For Tomorrow", "Give Me All Your Love" live Codevilla 2009, "Heartbreaker" live Recife 2009, "Here I Am", "Hisame", "Holy Diver" live Codevilla 2009, "Holy Land", "I Can't Quit You Baby" live Recife 2009, "I Don't Believe in Love", "I Hold the Key" live Milano 1996, "I'll Find My Way Home", "Innocence", "In the Night", "Iron Maiden" live 2008, "Leading On", "Letting Go", "Live and Learn" demo, "Living for the Night", "Lullaby for Lucifer", "Make Believe", "Metal Icarus", "Mirror of Me", "Moonlight", "Never Understand", "No Return" live Czech Republic 2011, "Nothing to Say", "On Your Own", "Oratio" live São Paulo 2009, "Over the Fire", "Over Your Head", "Paradise", "Power Stream", "Prelude to Oblivion", "Pride", "Prince with 1,000 Enemies", "Pull Me Under" live Curitiba 2019, "Queen of the Night", "Reaching Horizons", "Rebel Maniac" live Via Marquês 2012, "Remember Why", "Request", "Rescue", "Rio", "Ritual", "River", "Rough Stone", "Run to the Hills" live 2008, "Scarred Forever", "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)", "Shelter from the Rain" live 2011, "Shift the Night Away", "Soldiers of Sunrise", "Sometimes" live São Paulo 2018, "Spell" demo, "Star" live São Paulo 2009, "Streets of Tomorrow", "Talon's Last Hope", "Take Me Home", "The Keeper", "The Last Hero", "The Myriad", "The Shaman", "The Speech", "The Whipper", "To Be...", "Trail of Tears", "Turn Away", "2 Minutes to Midnight" live Trezzo sull'Adda 2008, "When the Sun Cried Out", "White Summit", "Why", "Wings of Reality '12", "Wings of the Evil", "Wuthering Heights", "Z.I.T.O."
B4: "Aces High" live Milano 2008, "A Cry from the Edge", "A Lapse in Time", "Alayna", "A New Moonlight", "Angels Cry", "Another Night Gets Longer", "Baby Doll", "Back to You", "Battle Hymn" live Rio de Janeiro 1995, "Before You Accuse Me" live Recife 2009, "Be Free" demo, "Bem Aventurados", "Blind Spell", "Blizzard on a Broken Mirror", "Blood of My Enemies live 1996, "Blowing Away", "Born to Be", "Carolina IV", "Carry On", "Chalice of Agony", "Chega de Saudade" live acoustic Paris 1995, "Come by the Hills", "Course of Life", "Crazy Me?", "Deep Blue", "Demonheart", "Discovery", "Distant Thunder", "Don't Let Me Go", "Eagle Fly Free" live São Paulo 2003, "Eden, Finally...", "Endeavour", "Evil Warning", "Extreme Dream", "Eyes of Christ" demo, "Fake Plastic Trees", "Fiction", "Fireworks", "Flight of Icarus" live Codevilla 2009, "Forever Is Too Long", "Forevermore", "Freedom Call", "Garota de Ipanema" acoustic, "Gaza", "Gentle Change", "Hallowed Be Thy Name", "Heartbreaker" live Recife 2009, "Here I Am", "Hisame", "Holy Land", "I Believe Again", "I Got the Blues" live 2005, "I Hold the Key" live Milano 1996, "In Paradisum", "Inside" live Czech Republic 2011, "Iron Soul", "I Want It All" live Prato 2009, "I Want Out" live Japan 2005, "I Walk in Neon", "I Want You to Know", "I Will Return", "Knights of Destruction", "Law of the Sword", "Liberty", "Light-Years", "Lisbon" live acoustic Milan 2008, "Live and Learn" demo, "Love Is All", "Make Believe", "Metal Icarus", "Mirror of Me", "More" live acoustic Milan 2008, "Mystery Machine", "Never Understand" live acoustic Paris 1995, "Nightmares", "No More Tears" live Uberlândia 2011, "No Need to Have an Answer", "No Return" live Czech Republic 2011, "Nothing to Say", "On Your Own", "Oversoul", "Paradise", "Prelude to Oblivion", "Pride", "Prince with 1,000 Enemies", "Pull Me Under" live Curitiba 2019, "Queen of the Night", "Rainy Nights", "Remember Why", "Rhapsody in Black", "Rock and Roll" live 2005, "Rock the Night" live Codevilla 2009, "Running Free" live Rio Janeiro 1995, "Santiago", "Scarred Forever", "Scream", "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)", "Shift the Night Away", "Silence and Distance", "Soldiers of Sunrise", "Soulspell", "Speed", "Spell" demo, "Star" live São Paulo 2009, "Stop!", "Strange Kind of Woman" live Recife 2009, "Streets of Tomorrow", "Superstition" live Recife 2009, "Tears of the Dragon" live São Paulo 2005, "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)", "Terra", "The Last Hero", "The Mirror", "The Myriad", "The Shaman", "The Seven Angels", "The Turn of the Lights", "The Val'Paraiso Dreaming", "Time", "Time Will Come", "To Live Again", "Trail of Tears", "Unreplaceable", "Victim of Changes" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Violence", "Wasted Years" live Codevilla 2009, "Who Wants to Live Forever" live São Paulo 2009, "Wings of Reality", "Wings of the Evil", "Z.I.T.O."
A♯4/B♭4: "A New Moonlight", Angels Cry", "At Least a Chance", "Back to You", "Bohemian Rhapsody" live Gravatal 2010, "Burn" live Codevilla 2009, "Course of Life", "Come by the Hills", "Deep Blue", "Del Cielo a la Tierra", "Discovery", "Eden, Finally...", "Endeavour", "Evil Sight", "Fear of the Dark" live Milano 2010, "Fireworks", "Follow the Way", "Forever is Too Long", "For Tomorrow", "Garota de Ipanema" acoustic, "Here I Am", "How Long (Unleashed Away)", "Innocence", "In the Night", "I.Q.U.", "I Walk in Neon", "Leading On", "Letting Go", "Light-Years", "Living After Midnight" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Living for the Night", "Madre Tierra", "Manowar" live France 1995, "Moonlight", "More", "Mother Earth", "Nevermore" live 2018, "Never Understand", "No Return", "On Your Own", "Oratio" live São Paulo 2009, "Perfect Strangers", "Perfil Siniestro", "Petrified Eyes", "Power Stream", "Reach Out for the Light" live 2011, "Rebel Maniac" live Via Marquês 2012, "Remember Why", "Rescue", "Rhapsody in Black", "Ritual", "River", "Rough Stone", "Sign of the Cross", "Sometimes" live São Paulo 2018, "Spell" demo, "Stand Away", "Star" live São Paulo 2009, "Stigmata", "Street of Babylon", "Streets of Tomorrow", "Symptom of the Universe" live 2004, "The Faithless and the Dreamer", "The First Sacrifice", "The Keeper", "The Myriad", "The Speech", "The Spreading Soul Forever", "The Val'Paraiso Dreaming", "Time" demo, "Time to Be Free", "To Be", "To Be...", "Violence", "When the Sun Cried Out"
A4: "Aquarela do Brasil" acoustic, "A Touch of Evil" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Baby Doll", "Battle Hymn" live Rio de Janeiro 1995, "Before You Accuse Me" live Recife 2009, "Be Free" demo, "Bem Aventurados", "Back to You", "Blind Spell", "Born to Be", "Breaking the Law" live Milano 2010, "Carolina IV", "Chega de Saudade" live acoustic Paris 1995, "Closer", "Course of Life", "Crazy Me?", "Deep Blue", "Del Cielo a la Tierra", "Discovery", "Dreams" live São Paulo 2009, "Electric Eye" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Equinox", "Evil Warning", "Face the End", "Fairy Tale", "Fake Plastic Trees", "Fear of the Dark" live Milano 2010, "Fight for Survival", "Fireworks", "Flight of Icarus" live Codevilla 2009, "Follow the Way", "Footprints of Angels", "Forever Is Too Long", "Forevermore", "Gaza", "Gentle Change", "Give Me All Your Love" live Codevilla 2009, "Heartbreaker" live Recife 2009, "Hisame", "Holy Land", "How Long (Unleashed Away)", "H.R. (Heavy Rock)", "I Believe Again", "I Got the Blues" live 2005, "I Hold the Key" live Milano 1996, "Innocence", "Inside" live Czech Republic 2011, "In the Night", "I.Q.U.", "Iron Maiden" live 2008, "Iron Soul", "I Want Out" live Japan 2005, "I Will Return", "Jesus Just Left Chicago" live Paris 1998, "Lasting Child", "Law of the Sword", "Leading On", "Liberty", "Life Goes On", "Light-Years", "Lisbon", "Live and Learn" demo, "Living for the Night", "Love Is All", "Lullaby for Lucifer", "Make Believe", "Metal Icarus", "Mirror of Me", "More", "Nightmares", "No More Tears" live Uberlândia 2011, "No Need to Have an Answer", "No Return" live Czech Republic 2011, "On Your Own", "Oversoul", "Over Your Head", "Paradise", "Perfect Strangers", "Petrified Eyes", "Power Stream", "Prelude to Oblivion", "Prince with 1,000 Enemies", "Pull Me Under" live Curitiba 2019, "Rainy Nights", "Reaching Horizons", "Reason", "Rio", "Rock and Roll" live 2005, "Rock the Night" live Codevilla 2009, "Rough Stone", "Run to the Hills" live 2008, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" live Bauru 2007, "Save Me" live São Paulo 2017, "Scarred Forever", "Shape of My Heart" live at Café de le Danse 1998, "Signs of the Night", "Silence and Distance", "Someone Else", "Speed", "Stop!", "Symptom of the Universe" live 2004, "Talon's Last Hope", "Tears of the Dragon" live São Paulo 2005, "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)", "Terra", "Theatre of Fate", ""The Final Countdown" live Torino 2009, "The Myriad", "The Shaman", "The Turn of the Lights", "The Tower", "The Val'Paraiso Dreaming", "The Whipper", "Time", "Time to Be Free", "To Be", "To Live Again", "2 Minutes to Midnight" live Trezzo sull'Adda 2008, "Unreplaceable", "We Will Rock You" live at Rock in Rio 2013, "When the Sun Cried Out", "White Summit", "Who Wants to Live Forever" live São Paulo 2009, "Why", "Wings of Reality", "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Z.I.T.O."
Recorded low notes:
F3: "Back to You", "Born to Be", "Footprints of Angels", "For Tomorrow", "How Long (Unleashed Away)" live acoustic Paris 2008, "Letting Go" live acoustic Paris 2008, "Life Goes On", "Lisbon", "Nevermore" live 2018, "Never Understand", "Oversoul", "Petrified Eyes", "Pilgrim Road", "Reaching Horizons", "Sometimes", "Star" live São Paulo 2009, "Street of Babylon", "Stigmata", "Talon's Last Hope", "When the Sun Cried Out"
E3: "Angels Cry", "A Touch of Evil" live at Covernation de Verão 2005, "Back to You", "Before You Accuse Me" live Recife 2009, "Blood of My Enemies live 1996, "Carry On" live acoustic Buenos Aires 1997, "Closer", "Course of Life", "Crazy Me?", "Don't Despair", "Dreams" live São Paulo 2009, "Equinox", "Evil Warning", "Fake Plastic Trees", "Fiction", "Fine Lines", "Gentle Change", "I Believe Again", "Innocence", "Iron Soul", "I Want You to Know", "Knights of Destruction", "Law of the Sword", "Liberty", "Lisbon", "Moonlight", "No Need to Have an Answer", "On Your Own", "Over Your Head", "Paradise", "Prelude to Oblivion", "Reason", "Reaching Horizons" live acoustic, "Rescue", "Rio" acoustic version, "Save Me" live São Paulo 2017, "Someone Else", "Stop!", "Talon's Last Hope", "The First Warrior", "The Last Hero", "The Turn of the Lights", "Time to Be Free", "Unreplaceable", "Who Wants to Live Forever" live São Paulo 2009, "Wings of Reality", "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" live at Covernation de Verão 2005
D♯3/E♭3: "Come by the Hills", "Don't Let Me Go", "Innocence", "In Paradisum", "Letting Go" live acoustic Paris 2008, opera clip, "Pilgrim Road", "Sometimes", "Star" live São Paulo 2009, "The Faithless and the Dreamer", "The Spreading Soul Forever", "The Val'Paraiso Dreaming", "When the Sun Cried Out"
D3: "Back to You", "Born to Be", "Carry On" live acoustic Buenos Aires 1997, "Chega de Saudade" live acoustic Paris 1995, "Closer", "Don't Despair '12", "Face the End", "Fiction", "Footprints of Angels", "For Tomorrow", "Gaza", "Hallowed Be Thy Name", "How Long (Unleashed Away)" live acoustic Paris 2008, "Innocence", "I.Q.U.", "I Will Return", "Liberty", "Love Is All", "More", "Never Understand" live acoustic Paris 1995, "No Need to Have an Answer", "Over Your Head", "Prince with 1,000 Enemies", "Rainy Nights", "Reason", "Rescue", "Rough Stone", "Scarred Forever", "Street of Babylon", "Talon's Last Hope", "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)", "The First Sacrifice", "The Myriad", "Time to Be Free", "To Be", "Unreplaceable"
C♯3/D♭3: "Evil Warning", "Fake Plastic Trees", "Fear of the Dark" live Uberlandia 2010, "Iron Soul", "Nevermore" live 2018, "No Need to Have an Answer", "Oversoul", "Scream", "Streets of Tomorrow", "Talon's Last Hope", "The Faithless and the Dreamer", "The Spreading Soul Forever", "Time", "To Be"
C3: "A Lapse in Time", "Closer", "Course of Life", "Fairy Tale", "Here We Go" demo, "How Long (Unleashed Away)" live acoustic Paris 2008, "I Can't Quit You Baby" live Recife 2009, "In the Night", "I.Q.U.", "Letting Go" live acoustic Paris 2008, "More", "Nevermore" live 2018, "No Need to Have an Answer", "On Your Own", "Save Me" live São Paulo 2017, "Star" live São Paulo 2009, "Street of Babylon", "The First Sacrifice", "The First Warrior", "When the Sun Cried Out", "White Summit"
B2: "A Lapse in Time", "A New Moonlight", "Course of Life", "Crazy Me?", "Don't Let Me Go", "Equinox", "Fear of the Dark" live Uberlandia 2010, "Footprints of Angels", "Gaza", "Gentle Change", "Hallowed Be Thy Name", "I Want You to Know", "Remember Why", "Rio" live acoustic Paris 2008, "Scarred Forever", "Stop!", "Street of Babylon", "The Last Hero", "The Val'Paraiso Dreaming", "Wings of Reality"
A♯2/B♭2: "Crime, Pain, and Penance", "Don't Let Me Go", "Innocence", "More", "Nevermore" live 2018, "Sometimes", "The First Sacrifice", "Turn Away"
A2: "Born to Be", "Carry On" live acoustic Buenos Aires 1997, "Fairy Tale", "Fear of the Dark" live Uberlandia 2010, "Hisame", "Looking Back", "On Your Own", "Rough Stone", "Time" acoustic version, "To Be"
G♯2/A♭2: "A New Moonlight", "Letting Go" live acoustic Paris 2008, "When the Sun Cried Out"
G2: "Carry On" live acoustic Buenos Aires 1997, "Closer", "Fairy Tale", "Innocence", "To Be"
{Questionable notes}
B2: "Carolina IV"
F♯2/G♭2: "Carolina IV", "Remember Why"
D2: "Living for the Night"
These are mostly notes that cannot be clearly identified as Matos' voice or someone else, with the exception of the "Remember Why" F♯2, which is a short, barely audible F♯2. The "Carolina IV" notes may be Rafael Bittencourt and Kiko Loureiro, and the "Living for the Night" D2 is suspected to possibly be Pit Passarell, even though Matos is the only one credited for vocals on the album.
.......................................................B2: "Carolina IV"
F♯2/G♭2: "Carolina IV", "Remember Why"
D2: "Living for the Night"
These are mostly notes that cannot be clearly identified as Matos' voice or someone else, with the exception of the "Remember Why" F♯2, which is a short, barely audible F♯2. The "Carolina IV" notes may be Rafael Bittencourt and Kiko Loureiro, and the "Living for the Night" D2 is suspected to possibly be Pit Passarell, even though Matos is the only one credited for vocals on the album.
*Italics mark non-melodic notes.
*Underlines marks notes in backing vocals or otherwise muffled/obscured in the song mix.
{Detailed bio}
Andre Matos is heavily regarded as one of Brazil's national treasures musically, and had an extensive career in which he gained widespread recognition for his incredible vocal abilities and extensive high range. He is best known for fronting the bands Angra, Shaman, and Viper at various points in his career, and before going off to pursue a solo career in the 2000s, and then getting involved in a number of other side projects and collaborations with other metal musicians in the years after. One of the trademarks of his vocal style was his seemingly limitless ability to intensely wail in the fifth octave, and powerfully sustain notes in the E5 range for almost 20 seconds. Though some may consider his tone as sounding somewhat strange and feminine at times, he truly sang with an impeccable sense of emotion and passion that did justice to his music in a way that few others could. In addition to his outstanding high range, as Matos' career went on, he began to make more use of his low range as well, which he gave a fair bit of representation to for a power metal tenor. Though he never sang lower than the mid second octave, he did quite a bit of singing in the lower third and upper second octave, and in some songs like "A New Moonlight" and "Fairy Tale" showcased both ends of his range and spanned up to three octaves.
Matos began his career at the very young age of 13, as a member of São Paulo-based power metal band Viper. He was originally a keyboardist first and foremost and had no intentions of serving as a frontman, but was coerced serving as the band's vocalist/keyboardist because he had "least poor vocals" of any of their members, and also because he "looked the most like Bruce Dickinson", which his bandmates saw as a marketable trait. He recorded and released his first demo tape with Viper in 1985, entitled The Killera Sword, but it is audible that on this release he was very much still figuring out how to sing and finding his voice, because the vocals on it sound rather shaky and very much stay in a safe zone range-wise (the absolute highest being some C♯5s in "The Whipper"). Two years later, though, Viper recorded their first studio album, 1987's Soldiers of Sunrise, which demonstrated some considerable improvement by Matos - now sounding much more confident in himself as a vocalist and having developed more high range (already singing entire melody lines on E5 in "Knights of Destruction"!). Despite this, however, Matos has claimed that he still "had no technique at all back then", and that he even temporarily blew out his voice during the recording of that album as a result of pushing himself past his limits too much. Yet even so, Matos only continued to further improve vocally in the next few years, and released his second album with Viper in 1989, entitled Theatre of Fate. On this album, he fully showcased the extent of his vocal abilities at the time, with lots of standout high notes like the ten second E5 from "A Cry from the Edge", the the climactic sustained G♯5 from "Moonlight" (a metal adaptation of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" arranged by Matos), and the ascending melody singing to G5 in "Prelude to Agony", which at one point includes entire lines sung on F♯5! Theatre of Fate received international attention and began to bring Viper much more fame than any release of theirs had so far, which also resulted in several of the tracks from it becoming signature tunes for the band. However, despite this growing fame, Matos decided to part ways with them in 1991, as he was more interested in continuing in a melodic direction musically, whereas the rest of the band was interested in continuing in more of a thrash metal direction.
Following his departure from Viper, Matos went to Germany to complete a music degree, and then returned to Brazil in 1991, at which point he formed the band Angra with guitarists Rafael Bittencourt and André Linhares, bassist Luís Mariutti, and drummer Marcos Antunes. Linhares was soon replaced by Kiko Loureiro, with whom they recorded their first demo - 1993's Reaching Horizons. Later that year, they also released their first album, Angels Cry, which quickly gained success and brought international attention to the tracks "Carry On", "Angels Cry", and "Time". Matos' vocal performance on the album was particularly praised for his rendition of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights", which he sang quite faithfully in the original octave without even resorting to falsetto! Following the release of this album, Antunes was replaced by Ricardo Confessori, which created the band's earliest "classic lineup", and with which they recorded their next album - 1996's Holy Land. This album continued the band's success and featured the hit songs "Make Believe" and "Nothing to Say", which are still regularly performed by Angra to this day. During the subsequent international tour promoting the album, the band also recorded the live album Holy Live, which was released in 1997. Following this tour, Matos began to move away from the band, and became interested in pursuing other projects instead. However, he was convinced by an executive from Angra's record company to stay and continue recording another album with them. This culminated in the release of their 1998 album, Fireworks, which was also highly acclaimed and featured the hit songs "Lisbon" and "Metal Icarus". Matos continued to tour with Angra for the next two years, but in 2000 officially left the band, along with Mariutti and Confessori, and was replaced by Edu Falaschi.
Matos' next project after Angra was called Virgo, and was a one-off collaboration between him and guitarist/keyboardist Sascha Paeth, who had served as Angra's co-producer on Angels Cry and Holy Land. The two of them had begun writing music together during the sessions for Fireworks, and released an album titled Virgo in 2001, which featured a wide variety of different musical styles on its tracks. In the meantime, Matos also continued to work with Luís Mariutti and Ricardo Confessori, and formed the band Shaman with them in 2000, which also featured Hugo Mariutti, Luís' brother, on guitar. They released their first album, Ritual, in 2002, which featured a mix of power metal and symphonic metal, and gained acclaim for the songs "Fairy Tale", "Distant Thunder", and "Pride" (which featured Tobias Sammet on co-lead vocals). The band then embarked on a tour to promote this album, during which they recorded the live album/DVD RituAlive, which was released in 2003, and featured various guest musicians such as Sammet, Paeth, Andi Deris, and Michael Weikath. Following this, the band released their second studio album, entitled Reason, in 2005, which saw Matos making more use of his lower range on songs like "Turn Away", "More" (a Sisters of Mercy cover), and "Innocence", in addition to his usual higher singing. Following this, however, Confessori fired Matos and the Mariutti brothers from the band, which then went on hiatus for the next year.
After this, Matos decided to take a break from playing in bands and instead pursue a solo career, and focus on having full creative control of the music he was making. He once again hired the Mariutti brothers to serve as some of his backing musicians for this, and released his first solo album in 2007, entitled Time to Be Free. This featured an extended and rewritten version of the old Viper song "Moonlight" under the title "A New Moonlight", as well as the hit songs "Letting Go" and "Remember Why". He continued for the next few years making his solo career his primary focus, releasing two more albums - Mentalize in 2009 and The Turn of the Lights in 2012. In the meantime, he also became a part of the supergroup Symfonia in 2010, which also featured Timo Tolkki and Jari Kainulainen from Stratovarius, Mikko Härkin from Sonata Arctica, and Uli Kusch from Gamma Ray and Helloween. They released their first album In Paradisum in 2011, but the band came to an abrupt end later that year when Tolkki declared that he was retiring from the music industry.
Though The Turn of the Lights ultimately served as Matos' final release as a full-length album, he continued to be very active in the years after that between touring as a solo artist and getting involved in an extensive number of guest collaborations. Most particularly, he developed a close friendship with Tobias Sammet over the years, and became a regular feature on albums by Sammet's metal opera project Avantasia, such as The Metal Opera Part I (2001) and Part II (2002), The Wicked Symphony (2010), and the live album The Flying Opera (2011). He continued to serve as an off-and-on touring member of Avantasia for the rest of his career. In addition to this, Matos' later years saw a reunion between him and two of his former bands - the first being Viper, whom he reunited with in 2012 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Soldiers of Sunrise. He continued touring and performing with them for the next four years, and then left the band for a second time in 2016. Following this, Matos, also reunited with Shaman in 2018, which served as a 17 year anniversary celebration, and embarked on a tour with them. He continued touring and performing with both Shaman and Avantasia for the next year, but then suffered an unexpected fatal heart attack in June 2019 at the age of 47. His loss was heavily mourned across the metal community, and many of his former bands did memorial tributes in his honor. Since then, however, there have still been three recordings that Matos had been involved in prior to his death that have seen posthumous releases - the first being a re-recorded version of the Viper song "The Spreading Soul" released by the band in 2020 under the title "The Spreading Soul Forever". The others were guest appearances - one by the band Eight on the song "Life Goes On", and the other by the band Dune Hill on the song "The Mirror", both released in 2020 as well. On top of that, there are currently plans for the release of a documentary about Matos' life and career in 2021, entitled Andre Matos - Maestro of Rock, so there is no doubt that in spite of his loss, his musical legacy will continue to live on for a long time.
Andre Matos is heavily regarded as one of Brazil's national treasures musically, and had an extensive career in which he gained widespread recognition for his incredible vocal abilities and extensive high range. He is best known for fronting the bands Angra, Shaman, and Viper at various points in his career, and before going off to pursue a solo career in the 2000s, and then getting involved in a number of other side projects and collaborations with other metal musicians in the years after. One of the trademarks of his vocal style was his seemingly limitless ability to intensely wail in the fifth octave, and powerfully sustain notes in the E5 range for almost 20 seconds. Though some may consider his tone as sounding somewhat strange and feminine at times, he truly sang with an impeccable sense of emotion and passion that did justice to his music in a way that few others could. In addition to his outstanding high range, as Matos' career went on, he began to make more use of his low range as well, which he gave a fair bit of representation to for a power metal tenor. Though he never sang lower than the mid second octave, he did quite a bit of singing in the lower third and upper second octave, and in some songs like "A New Moonlight" and "Fairy Tale" showcased both ends of his range and spanned up to three octaves.
Matos began his career at the very young age of 13, as a member of São Paulo-based power metal band Viper. He was originally a keyboardist first and foremost and had no intentions of serving as a frontman, but was coerced serving as the band's vocalist/keyboardist because he had "least poor vocals" of any of their members, and also because he "looked the most like Bruce Dickinson", which his bandmates saw as a marketable trait. He recorded and released his first demo tape with Viper in 1985, entitled The Killera Sword, but it is audible that on this release he was very much still figuring out how to sing and finding his voice, because the vocals on it sound rather shaky and very much stay in a safe zone range-wise (the absolute highest being some C♯5s in "The Whipper"). Two years later, though, Viper recorded their first studio album, 1987's Soldiers of Sunrise, which demonstrated some considerable improvement by Matos - now sounding much more confident in himself as a vocalist and having developed more high range (already singing entire melody lines on E5 in "Knights of Destruction"!). Despite this, however, Matos has claimed that he still "had no technique at all back then", and that he even temporarily blew out his voice during the recording of that album as a result of pushing himself past his limits too much. Yet even so, Matos only continued to further improve vocally in the next few years, and released his second album with Viper in 1989, entitled Theatre of Fate. On this album, he fully showcased the extent of his vocal abilities at the time, with lots of standout high notes like the ten second E5 from "A Cry from the Edge", the the climactic sustained G♯5 from "Moonlight" (a metal adaptation of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" arranged by Matos), and the ascending melody singing to G5 in "Prelude to Agony", which at one point includes entire lines sung on F♯5! Theatre of Fate received international attention and began to bring Viper much more fame than any release of theirs had so far, which also resulted in several of the tracks from it becoming signature tunes for the band. However, despite this growing fame, Matos decided to part ways with them in 1991, as he was more interested in continuing in a melodic direction musically, whereas the rest of the band was interested in continuing in more of a thrash metal direction.
Following his departure from Viper, Matos went to Germany to complete a music degree, and then returned to Brazil in 1991, at which point he formed the band Angra with guitarists Rafael Bittencourt and André Linhares, bassist Luís Mariutti, and drummer Marcos Antunes. Linhares was soon replaced by Kiko Loureiro, with whom they recorded their first demo - 1993's Reaching Horizons. Later that year, they also released their first album, Angels Cry, which quickly gained success and brought international attention to the tracks "Carry On", "Angels Cry", and "Time". Matos' vocal performance on the album was particularly praised for his rendition of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights", which he sang quite faithfully in the original octave without even resorting to falsetto! Following the release of this album, Antunes was replaced by Ricardo Confessori, which created the band's earliest "classic lineup", and with which they recorded their next album - 1996's Holy Land. This album continued the band's success and featured the hit songs "Make Believe" and "Nothing to Say", which are still regularly performed by Angra to this day. During the subsequent international tour promoting the album, the band also recorded the live album Holy Live, which was released in 1997. Following this tour, Matos began to move away from the band, and became interested in pursuing other projects instead. However, he was convinced by an executive from Angra's record company to stay and continue recording another album with them. This culminated in the release of their 1998 album, Fireworks, which was also highly acclaimed and featured the hit songs "Lisbon" and "Metal Icarus". Matos continued to tour with Angra for the next two years, but in 2000 officially left the band, along with Mariutti and Confessori, and was replaced by Edu Falaschi.
Matos' next project after Angra was called Virgo, and was a one-off collaboration between him and guitarist/keyboardist Sascha Paeth, who had served as Angra's co-producer on Angels Cry and Holy Land. The two of them had begun writing music together during the sessions for Fireworks, and released an album titled Virgo in 2001, which featured a wide variety of different musical styles on its tracks. In the meantime, Matos also continued to work with Luís Mariutti and Ricardo Confessori, and formed the band Shaman with them in 2000, which also featured Hugo Mariutti, Luís' brother, on guitar. They released their first album, Ritual, in 2002, which featured a mix of power metal and symphonic metal, and gained acclaim for the songs "Fairy Tale", "Distant Thunder", and "Pride" (which featured Tobias Sammet on co-lead vocals). The band then embarked on a tour to promote this album, during which they recorded the live album/DVD RituAlive, which was released in 2003, and featured various guest musicians such as Sammet, Paeth, Andi Deris, and Michael Weikath. Following this, the band released their second studio album, entitled Reason, in 2005, which saw Matos making more use of his lower range on songs like "Turn Away", "More" (a Sisters of Mercy cover), and "Innocence", in addition to his usual higher singing. Following this, however, Confessori fired Matos and the Mariutti brothers from the band, which then went on hiatus for the next year.
After this, Matos decided to take a break from playing in bands and instead pursue a solo career, and focus on having full creative control of the music he was making. He once again hired the Mariutti brothers to serve as some of his backing musicians for this, and released his first solo album in 2007, entitled Time to Be Free. This featured an extended and rewritten version of the old Viper song "Moonlight" under the title "A New Moonlight", as well as the hit songs "Letting Go" and "Remember Why". He continued for the next few years making his solo career his primary focus, releasing two more albums - Mentalize in 2009 and The Turn of the Lights in 2012. In the meantime, he also became a part of the supergroup Symfonia in 2010, which also featured Timo Tolkki and Jari Kainulainen from Stratovarius, Mikko Härkin from Sonata Arctica, and Uli Kusch from Gamma Ray and Helloween. They released their first album In Paradisum in 2011, but the band came to an abrupt end later that year when Tolkki declared that he was retiring from the music industry.
Though The Turn of the Lights ultimately served as Matos' final release as a full-length album, he continued to be very active in the years after that between touring as a solo artist and getting involved in an extensive number of guest collaborations. Most particularly, he developed a close friendship with Tobias Sammet over the years, and became a regular feature on albums by Sammet's metal opera project Avantasia, such as The Metal Opera Part I (2001) and Part II (2002), The Wicked Symphony (2010), and the live album The Flying Opera (2011). He continued to serve as an off-and-on touring member of Avantasia for the rest of his career. In addition to this, Matos' later years saw a reunion between him and two of his former bands - the first being Viper, whom he reunited with in 2012 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Soldiers of Sunrise. He continued touring and performing with them for the next four years, and then left the band for a second time in 2016. Following this, Matos, also reunited with Shaman in 2018, which served as a 17 year anniversary celebration, and embarked on a tour with them. He continued touring and performing with both Shaman and Avantasia for the next year, but then suffered an unexpected fatal heart attack in June 2019 at the age of 47. His loss was heavily mourned across the metal community, and many of his former bands did memorial tributes in his honor. Since then, however, there have still been three recordings that Matos had been involved in prior to his death that have seen posthumous releases - the first being a re-recorded version of the Viper song "The Spreading Soul" released by the band in 2020 under the title "The Spreading Soul Forever". The others were guest appearances - one by the band Eight on the song "Life Goes On", and the other by the band Dune Hill on the song "The Mirror", both released in 2020 as well. On top of that, there are currently plans for the release of a documentary about Matos' life and career in 2021, entitled Andre Matos - Maestro of Rock, so there is no doubt that in spite of his loss, his musical legacy will continue to live on for a long time.
{Vocal range video}
Here's the range video for him I made for him back in 2012. It's definitely a bit dated at this point (still contains some notes that were considered significant on TRP2, and is missing some good upper fourth/lower fifth octave highs and lower third octave lows), but still has a good display of some strong vocal highlights by him for anyone unfamiliar with his singing.
Here's the range video for him I made for him back in 2012. It's definitely a bit dated at this point (still contains some notes that were considered significant on TRP2, and is missing some good upper fourth/lower fifth octave highs and lower third octave lows), but still has a good display of some strong vocal highlights by him for anyone unfamiliar with his singing.
{Album ranges}
Viper:
Angra:
Virgo:
Avantasia:
Shaman:
Andre Matos:
Symfonia:
Viper:
- The Killera Sword (1985) -
- Soldiers of Sunrise (1987) - E3-E5
- Theatre of Fate (1989) - E3-G♯5
- To Live Again: Ao Vivo Em São Paulo (2015) -
Angra:
- Reaching Horizons (1993) - D3-B5
- Angels Cry (1993) - C♯3-A♯5
- Evil Warning (1994) -
- Live Acoustic at FNAC (1995) -
- Eyes of Christ (1996) -
- Holy Land (1996) - F♯3-A5
- Freedom Call (1996) - F3-A5
- Holy Live (1997) -
- Fireworks (1998) - B2-G5
Virgo:
- Virgo (2000) - G2-F♯5
Avantasia:
- The Metal Opera Part I (2001) -
- The Metal Opera Part II (2002) -
- The Wicked Symphony (2010) -
- The Flying Opera (2011) -
Shaman:
- Shaman (2001) -
- Ritual (2002) - G2-A5
- RituAlive (2003) - G2-A5
- Reason (2005) - B♭2-E5
Andre Matos:
- Time to Be Free (2007) - A2-A5
- Mentalize (2009) - G♯2-C3-F♯5
- The Turn of the Lights (2012) - A2-F♯5
Symfonia:
- In Paradisum (2011) - B♭2-A♭5
{Best displays of vocal range}
"A New Moonlight" (G♯2-G♯5)
"Fairy Tale" (G2-F♯5)
"Closer" (G2-F♯5)
"Remember Why" (B2-A5)
"To Be" (G2-E5)
"Hallowed Be Thy Name" (B2-E5-G5)
"Innocence" (G2-D5)
"Looking Back" (A2-E5)
"On Your Own" (A2-E5)
"Crazy Me?" (B2-F♯5)
"A New Moonlight" (G♯2-G♯5)
"Fairy Tale" (G2-F♯5)
"Closer" (G2-F♯5)
"Remember Why" (B2-A5)
"To Be" (G2-E5)
"Hallowed Be Thy Name" (B2-E5-G5)
"Innocence" (G2-D5)
"Looking Back" (A2-E5)
"On Your Own" (A2-E5)
"Crazy Me?" (B2-F♯5)
