Charles Gavin
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| Birth name | Charles de Souza Gavin |
| Born | July 9, 1960 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Genre(s) | Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, songwriter, producer |
| Instrument(s) | Drums |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Associated acts | Zero Hora Santa Gang Zona Franca Jetsons Cabine C Ira! RPM Titãs |
Charles de Souza Gavin (born on July 9, 1960) is a drummer and musical producer, whose fame comes mainly from his drums works at Brazilian rock band Titãs.
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[edit] History
[edit] Childhood
Since the year of 8, Gavin has been very interested in Percussion. At that time, his friends would invite him to participate on the September 7 (Brazil’s Independence Day) festival. The problem was the absence of decent percussion instruments. So, the school decided to improvise these with kitchen utensils. But there was still an instrument remaining, which would be quite difficult for a not so skillful drummer to play. So Gavin, who was already used to beat the table at school, was chosen for the odd job. Soon enough, his classmates realized they did the right thing: Gavin was the only one able to get the exact beat time, while his friends beat nervously the pans, spoons and anything else "percussionable". The band, commanded by Gavin, won the originality prize.
In 1975, at the year of 15, living in Jabaquara, Gavin joined ten neighbors, and during the weeks that preceded the Carnaval, they promoted noisy beats around the streets. Nothing was professional, all the instruments were improvised, but it was useful for Gavin to get experienced to the different sounds of percussion. However, his ears were focused on the discs of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Once the drumming life was chosen, he built himself his first own drum kit, using pieces of his father’s Opala, his sofa, and two ash trays. Obviously, this “drum” was used only when his parents were not home.
In 1979, when he was 19, Gavin convinced his father to buy his first true drum kit, a white Pinguim. The condition to keep the instrument was not to quit the university, though. In 1982, Gavin entered administration in PUC, while working at Panasonic, operating huge computers. On the free time, he would play the drums like there was no tomorrow.
[edit] Career and works
During his studies at PUC, he would enter the band Zero Hora, and later the bands Santa Gang, Zona Franca and Jetsons, the latter together with Branco Mello and Ciro Pessoa, members of Titãs, the band in which he would enter in 1985. Also with Ciro, he performed with Cabine C, but with Ira! he made more shows, and caught Titãs attention. In December 1984, when he has already switched Ira! for RPM, (band lead by Paulo Ricardo, who was working hardly to release an album next year), he was called to perform with Titãs. Coincidently, André Jung, who left Titãs, would replace Gavin’s place at Ira!. Gavin left his triple life and dedicated himself only to music. In 1985, he made his debut with the band and entered in the studio to record their second album, Televisão.
One of his main activities is to collect rare LPs. Gavin transformed this hobby in a second activity, Titãs being the first one. He re-released discs from artists like Tom Zé, Lady Zu and Novos Baianos, beyond organizing compilations for labels. Since the end of the 80ties, he has been also producing. His first production work was the album “Vítimas do Sistema”, from the Brazilian band Detrito Federal, in 1988.
[edit] Personal life
Married to the dancer Mariana Roquete-Pinto, Gavin was waiting for his first daughter to be born on October 2006, but no announcements have been made for her birth.
[edit] References
- Gavin’s page at Titãs official web site (Portuguese)
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